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A Near Miss Brings Our Mortality Home
We go from thinking we are indestructible to facing the truth of our impending death
Coming face to face with our own death is a shocking wake up call, to say the least, but coming face to face with your child’s possible death is terrifying!
I used to love all the adrenaline producing adventures in life : the thrill rides at a carnival, jumping out of an airplane, racing on a speedway track and even participating in a speedway demolition derby.
But the experience I want to write about today is one of my all time favourite experiences, white water rafting.
Well it WAS one of my all time favourite experiences!
When I lived in Darwin, Northern Territory, I flew over to Cairns, Queensland for an eight day adventure packed trip of a lifetime. My brother flew in from Perth, Western Australia to join me and it was a trip I’ll never forget.
Neither of us had ever been to Queensland before, so it was all new to us both.
Cairns had, only a month before, been devastated by a tropical cyclone. So much so that the sugar cane in the cane fields were still laying down.
During our eight days, I had booked a tour for each of those days and one of these tours was…
