Thanks boys. If I lived closer we'd be on it Steve.
They were wearing lifejackets Tas. I don't know how long they'd been in the water or how much longer they would have been.
No one else on the beach had noticed that they were in trouble. But I guess they had no reason to. IT was a warm day and people were playing in the water. No big deal. They were too far out to be obvious to most, but because I'm looking for kayaks I noticed them.
A couple of other funny things to come out of this. On Tuesday night (the day the last bloke was rescued) I went down to Millers Rd with a couple of beers. I got out of my car on the opposite side of the beach and walked across the road with my open stubby. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted the divvy van pull up at Millers Rd. I tried to hide the stubby and put it down on the beach wall trying to conceal it. It's a dry area where I was. The coppers entered the Esplanade and I heard them stop. I looked along the beach and out of the corner of my eye i saw them reverse and pull in near me. I thought I was pinched for driving with a traveller and drinking in a dry area, then one of the coppers yelled, "Rhino!" It turns out I knew him. It didn't go unnoticed that his young female partner was gorgeous either. Isn't that right Dognuts? She was one of the coppers who turned up and gave me a ride back to the boat ramp today. So I'm on a first name basis with her now
When I got to the boat ramp I went to thank the jet skiiers again. The guy I went with was out having fun so I got speaking with his parents. THey told me how they wondered what the hell was going on. I'd come running out the blue and hijacked their son and his ski. They had started coming up with conspiracy theories about what I was doing. They wondered why I was at the boat ramp if the people that needed help were on the other side of the pier. They thought that I might have come up with an elaborate story, taken off with the son, knocked him on the head, thrown him off the ski and then stole it.
Strange day.
When I saw the kid I was happy to have taken enough interest to have done something about it and not ignored it. I didn't know he was there because they were too far out to distinguish. I don't know how I'd have handled reading a bad news story tomorrow knowing I'd done nothing.
But I shared this story to highlight again just how important it is to wear a PFD, no matter how good you think you are. What worries me is that it's only October and all this S#!^ is happening already.
well done mate.
