THE skies are closing in; the Tasman Sea swell is angry; this is a confrontation between two exhausted young men and nature’s wildest elements where it it’s plainly obvious who are the outsiders in this battle for survival.
They have been going around in circles, literally, for a week, buffeted off course by the tides, giant swells and winds that caused them to paddle an extra 800kms on top of the 3000km they had prepared for. Their leg muscles were wasting, their body fat reserves depleted, their minds playing tricks. Yet their constitution refused to wander.
No one had successfully navigated, by kayak, the Tasman from Australia to New Zealand. One, Andrew McAuley, had come perilously close just months earlier … but not near enough to save his life.
His watery grave sat on the ocean bed somewhere between where these two adventurers would achieve historic immortality or their own perilous end. It was in their minds every minute.
James Castrission and Justin Jones indeed reached the sand at New Plymouth on NZ’s north island, and a place in history, on January 13, 2008 - 62 days after they set off from Forster on the mid-New South Wales coast. They were sun-burnt, bearded, underweight, physically and mentally wasted … and most of all happy to be alive.
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