Just back from a weekend up at Port Stephens where we paddled with Pacific Dragons in an OC6 changes race. We were a couple weeks away from the National Dragon Boat Titles in Perth. Jenny had been forced to withdraw from the trip due to some chemotherapy which had just started. In this photo, I am at the start of 3 month injury break from paddling due to an oblique muscle pull from the changes race the day before. It was my first major paddling injury and a good test for me. Jo later that night would trip over her travel bag and pull an ACL in her knee. In the matter of a few days, all 3 of us had gone from representing NSW in Perth, to not (Steve and Pam kindly had our names on the crew list in Perth). All our flights were postponed and we would spend a week in Perth and the South West of Western Australia, in October later that year.
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