{"id":14555,"date":"2022-07-29T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2022-07-29T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:33:22","slug":"the-great-canoeing-misadventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/de\/the-great-canoeing-misadventure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Canoeing Misadventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-864x1536.png 864w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-580x1031.png 580w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-860x1529.png 860w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3-610x1084.png 610w, https:\/\/grootbosfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Canoe-comic-strip-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not every day that an extraordinary adventure takes place on race day as it did at the Western Province Marathon Championships...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sibongeleni<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">'s adventure took place on a Saturday in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> May 2022. The f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">irst unexpected turn of events at what he expected to be a normal regatta was that he was snagged like a fish out of water by a nearby fisherman who was casting his hook for his own Saturday afternoon fish braai. Sibongeleni's (known to his friends as SK)\u00a0 beloved canoe shirt was ripped leaving him disappointed and flustered but ready to paddle onwards.\u00a0 His<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0next challenge was that the wind came up turning the <em>vlei<\/em> waters choppy and tossing him clean out of his canoe onto a shallow sand bar. He was rescued by some Sea Scouts who happened to be camped out on a small island in the middle of the <em>vlei<\/em>. Was this good fortune and would it mark a change in SK's luck?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back at the marathon start, the coach began to wonder where on earth SK was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of sight of the race start, SK was hauled, bedraggled but eager to continue paddling, onto the Scout yacht. He just needed their help to tip the water out of his canoe and then he could be on his way. Totally out of the blue, the sail boom swung around and clouted SK on his pip. What a blow that left him seeing stars! The intrepid Scouts were pretty sure that SK needed their first aid skills, but he was more determined than ever to finish his race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in his trusty canoe, paddling with all his might, SK finished the race he had started! With a rip in his shirt, an egg on his head and the best story to tell, he was not the winner but he was certainly the champion! His coach was so relieved to see him and the race officials checked him out to make sure was not seriously injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sibongeleni could easily have thrown in the towel but his perseverance, determination and love for paddling kept him focused on the finish line. What a champ, and what a great story!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibongeleni had quite an adventure at the WP Marathon Champs tournament that took place in Cape Town, on the 7th of May. <\/p>\n<p>Sibongeleni's first part of his adventure was that he was caught like a fish out of water by a nearby fisherman..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,18,19,57,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology","category-enviroment","category-nature","category-news","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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