This has become our go to bay whenever we have guests on board as it has it all, especially a totally epic sunset and fantastic swimming with clear water and a sand / fine shells / small quartz pebble beach to play on.

This story is all about the Sanitarium Weetbix TRYathlon I have just done in Nelson. It is something that both of my sisters did when they were my age, and something I have really been looking forward to. I never imagined that I would end up getting interviewed by the local newspaper in the build up to the event, but it was cool to see my story and hear from my old friends that they had seen it to. Read until the end, there is a video about my whole experience. 

If you asked me five years ago, I would have said “never in a million years would I be driving a boat before a car!”.

We’ve come a long way since buying the Oriental Lady in late 2021. I know that all I’ve learnt so far, and all that I want to learn over these next few years will help me in many ways throughout my life.

Having an immediate fear response to a dangerous situation is not only healthy, but a very wise way to act. To not get scared in the face of true and apparent danger is just flat out reckless.
To constantly live in fear however, and be paralysed into inaction as a polar opposite, is also flat out reckless.

This lifestyle of extremes seems to be a real growing trend out in the "real world" with an alarming number of people operating with seemingly no concept of consequence. Similarily the constant state of anxiety that some people are living in is exhausting to watch from the edges, so I can only imagine how exhausting it must be to live it. But what is it like on a boat, constantly surrounded by unfathomable risk?