da_donkey
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Yes its true once again i have learned the hard way, dont mess with wildlife whilst intoxicated 
I had a beautiful couple of days lounging around on whitehaven beach drinking champers, wine , beer and whatever alse we could manage to fit on our 28ft mustang.
we decided to go do a bit of bottom bashing and spearing over at dugong beach on the other side of the island, when we dropped anchor about 40m off the beach i saw 2 huge lacies walking down the beach so needless to say i dove off the boat and headed to shore.
when i reached them i stalked them for a while before deciding to grab the biggest one for a photo opp.
after a brief wrestle i had him in what i thought was a pretty good hold walking back to get my camera off the beach he started to kick and was scratching my chest ( which has over a grands worth of tattoos on it, i let off with my front hand a little and he whipped his head around and locked on hard to my wrist as the blood spurted i knew i was in a bit of trouble, so i put him down on the ground so he good scamper off........he wasnt interested he just wanted to keep thrashin about on my arm causing a heck of alot of damage and pain.
After i pryed him off and he scamped off into the bush i had to call teh camping trip off early and race back 40 mins to hamilton island where it cost me over $300 to get stiched up and i am having alot of numbness in my thumb and cant use it properly so im guessing ive done some nerve damage.
so the moral of the story is no matter how many rescue callouts or how many times youve caught particular species......theres alwaays gonna be one that gets you good!!
i have pics on my camera phone after i got it stiched up but cant upload on this computer, so if someone is keen on seeing the aftermath i could send it.
now i sit back and wait for all the flamers on there high horses who are going to pretend that they have never caught a wild reptile for a photo opp
cheers, donk
I had a beautiful couple of days lounging around on whitehaven beach drinking champers, wine , beer and whatever alse we could manage to fit on our 28ft mustang.
we decided to go do a bit of bottom bashing and spearing over at dugong beach on the other side of the island, when we dropped anchor about 40m off the beach i saw 2 huge lacies walking down the beach so needless to say i dove off the boat and headed to shore.
when i reached them i stalked them for a while before deciding to grab the biggest one for a photo opp.
after a brief wrestle i had him in what i thought was a pretty good hold walking back to get my camera off the beach he started to kick and was scratching my chest ( which has over a grands worth of tattoos on it, i let off with my front hand a little and he whipped his head around and locked on hard to my wrist as the blood spurted i knew i was in a bit of trouble, so i put him down on the ground so he good scamper off........he wasnt interested he just wanted to keep thrashin about on my arm causing a heck of alot of damage and pain.
After i pryed him off and he scamped off into the bush i had to call teh camping trip off early and race back 40 mins to hamilton island where it cost me over $300 to get stiched up and i am having alot of numbness in my thumb and cant use it properly so im guessing ive done some nerve damage.
so the moral of the story is no matter how many rescue callouts or how many times youve caught particular species......theres alwaays gonna be one that gets you good!!
i have pics on my camera phone after i got it stiched up but cant upload on this computer, so if someone is keen on seeing the aftermath i could send it.
now i sit back and wait for all the flamers on there high horses who are going to pretend that they have never caught a wild reptile for a photo opp
cheers, donk
