29 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
23 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
01 August 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
29 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
25 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
11 July 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
17 June 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
06 June 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
30 May 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
23 May 2019 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
19 May 2019 | Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, Australia.
28 February 2019 | Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
14 February 2019 | Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
22 November 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
04 November 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
25 October 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
20 October 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
18 August 2018 | Burnett River, Burnett Heads, Queensland, Australia.
Finding the answer.
20 November 2016 | Port of Bundaberg Marina.
Cam "H"
We can never be certain but apparently I could have picked up a dose of streptococcus pyogenes bacteria (don’t you just love big words) in my right leg while hiking in the Marquises Islands. I took a tumble down the dock in Fatu Hiva while getting out of our dinghy, breaking the skin on my shin the day before we went for the hike up to the waterfalls. This was our first landfall crossing the Pacific after the Galapagos Islands. It seemed fine until it flared up just as I arrived in Tahiti, I was a very sick boy. I was treated there by a French Doctor in Papeete, shortly after Annie arrived back on Annecam to nurse me back to good health. This French Doctor prescribed a heap of different antibiotics along with self-administered injections to minimise blood clots. After almost 3 weeks it looked like it had been cleared out of my leg but unfortunately it hadn’t, it showed up on several occasions to varying degrees as we sailed across the Pacific towards Australia. It would come and go but nothing too bad until our third week in New Caledonia, we spent a lovely 2 weeks in Noumea, all seemed okay and as we were about to start our final passage to Australia then it flared up again big time, I crashed, I was convulsing and throwing up everywhere. Annie had to get help from our dear friends Bill and Gene off their catamaran Out Of The Bag plus Catherine and Peter off their catamaran The Southern Cross to get me off Annecam and into the Hospital. Without the help from them I would have really struggled to get myself off the boat. The wonderful Doctors in Noumea kept me in that Hospital for 5 days, the nurses were fantastic, they even tried to teach me to speak French. They let me out of hospital to rest on Annecam, so we pulled the anchor and rested for five and a half days, all the way to Australia where I crashed again and spent another 5 days in the Bundaberg Hospital.
I'm back on the boat but they are still treating me here in Bundaberg as an outpatient so I can't go anywhere until they give me the all clear. The Doctor here left us a message saying that there is a strong chance that I have had Rheumatic Fever as they have found a heart murmur so I’m booked in for an ECG this Tuesday to see what my newly acquired heart murmur is all about, as soon as I have the results I will keep you posted.
The photo is my fat, slightly red leg being rested in the cockpit on Annecam as we sail towards Australia.
Life’s obstacles are quite often the stepping stones of new adventures