Tag: sick
Blown gear box, food poisoning and DOLPHINS !
Once again, we found ourselves wallowing in the ocean, drifting backwards in the current. Our stomachs still churning from a week of serious food poisoning. We had sailed only 20nm in 32hours, ... Read More
Dealing with sickness abroad
If you have kept up with our travels, you would know we have had our fair share of illness with the girls. What do you do when your kids get sick onboard and abroad? You are miles from help and there ... Read More
Nightmare Abroad Part 5 !
Ak’s condition wasn’t getting any better but she wasn’t getting any worse. I waited all morning for slade to arrive with toilet paper. At 10am I recieved a sat phone message. The pie... Read More
Nightmare abroad part 4
After holding out all night the time had come to use the toilet. Slade had arrived earlier in the day and had brought nothing but himself and Beany with him. I was desperate for a change of clothes, s... Read More
Nightmare Abroad Part 3
I stood in a large room completely alone, completely helpless and stomach churningly scared. AK was asleep, attached to an IV drip. All I wanted to do was cry but it was the one thing I couldn’t... Read More
Nightmare Abroad Part 2
With AK’s temp increasing we sailed to the big smoke of lautoka city to be seen by the city hospital. After 7hrs of waiting with AK wrapped in wet blankets I had had enough ! AK’s conditio... Read More
Nightmare Abroad Part 1
The driver slams on the horn, hazard lights flashing, his high beams on. We are doing 110km down the highway in the wrong lane ! A semi trailer comes screaming towards us. AK huddled in my lap, not a ... Read More
Cloudbreak
It’s epic this is as good as cloud break gets or so I was told. The crowd of 30 surfers and 100 onlookers cheered and whistled as slade pulled into a perfect 6ft well overhead hollow barrel, the... Read More