staying alive
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Had the family out last Saturday ,went around the backside of Bowen to get out of the wind ,dropped anchor for a couple of hours with 3 grand kids, daughter ,son-in law and my wife ,enjoyed the sun let the kids play with the spin casters it was all good.
Was blasting over to the hump afterwards to do a couple of hours of trolling and fire up the barbecue on the way back to McDonald beach, going along at a good clip and my daughter screams Dad to your left , just glanced over my left shoulder to see a big power boat (orange) coming straight at us thank god I had my hands on the throttle just pulled back as fast as I could and the guy cut across our bow 10' away he had his head down and I would lay money on it he was texting after going by us for 100' he looks up startled and spins his head around . I was in shock at how close that was ,I was doing over 30 and so was he and I had 300 litres of fuel on board it wouldn't of ended well . He was heading back to Bowen marina I,ll bet he was just dropping of somebody at horseshoe bay probably his honey -- then they where texting I love you's back and forth .Almost cost my family our lives .
He was the giveway vessel , I had the right of way , but I doesn't count to be dead right . Pay attention out there . You see it everyday on the road people with there heads down texting I,m sick of it
Happy to still have my family
Was blasting over to the hump afterwards to do a couple of hours of trolling and fire up the barbecue on the way back to McDonald beach, going along at a good clip and my daughter screams Dad to your left , just glanced over my left shoulder to see a big power boat (orange) coming straight at us thank god I had my hands on the throttle just pulled back as fast as I could and the guy cut across our bow 10' away he had his head down and I would lay money on it he was texting after going by us for 100' he looks up startled and spins his head around . I was in shock at how close that was ,I was doing over 30 and so was he and I had 300 litres of fuel on board it wouldn't of ended well . He was heading back to Bowen marina I,ll bet he was just dropping of somebody at horseshoe bay probably his honey -- then they where texting I love you's back and forth .Almost cost my family our lives .
He was the giveway vessel , I had the right of way , but I doesn't count to be dead right . Pay attention out there . You see it everyday on the road people with there heads down texting I,m sick of it
Happy to still have my family