Day 30 – Fish attack

Today’s post is shamelessly copied from Cockleshell Endeavour’s latest Facebook post.

Sounds like a YouTube video that goes viral, and if only we had it on camera. The highlight of these past days was when Ryan and Bev were rowing during their 1-4am shift and out of the blue, a flying fish slapped Ryan right across the face, before ending up in his hoodie, flapping around. Eventually, this fish was liberated back into the wild with no injuries (same can’t be said of Ryan’s face. Ryan said it was not funny at the time, but after a couple hours had passed and the sun rose, they cracked up about it.

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