The Local Adventures of Worleybird

Well this is the beginning of “The Local Adventures of Worleybird” (tLAW).  Sitting in front of the Shaun Micallef program is not conducive to writing a cohesive or interesting first post for a blog, but it IS telling of the quality you will get from this blog…. total and utter professional amateurism!!!

Anyway.  On to the topic of tLAW.  Mainly I started this blog cause I was writing numerous accounts and posting many pics of the same adventure on several different forums and with not the fastest internet connection and many limits to 3 pics per post etc it was very tedious uploading my adventures.  So, in a victory for total laziness tLAW was born and will now become……

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!    (Micallef! It’s so hard to look away!!)

(cont.)….tLAW will now become the primary place to post my adventures and I will link them to appropriate forums with sneak peak pics.

Anyway, just so we can start off I’ll do an update of the Life Adventures of Worleybird.

Worleybub was born at very young age!

Later in life I went on to play a major role as a child star in this photo.

Through a combination of respiration and mitosis, no thanks to a lack of support from school bullies, I slowly grew into an adult human male.  During this growing stage I became convinced that not only was the bible true, but that Jesus was the answer to everything that’s wrong with me and this world.  I decided that living for God would be most important in my life.(even more important kayaking or girls or family even!!) Click here for what I believe, or just talk to me!

After about 24 human years (unknown real years) I had almost completed a Marine Science Degree and 2 years of training at my local church.  It was after this in 2004 that I started work as an adventure tour guide in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia and my love for kayaking and whitewater began.

I had always grown up around water. windsurfing, surfing, wakeboarding etc.  

worleybird in NSW wavesailing final.

woopi final 2007

With this new job my love of water grew even more as I trained up as a rafting guide as well as a sea kayak and surf rafting guide. (Ironically I get really cold, even in the warmest of water and I abhor sand, sand on stuff or any kind of bodily sandiness!! )

Centre drop - Nymboida river

centre drop again just a bit less boat!

It was during this period I met and married my wife….Well when I met her she wasn’t my wife- so really it should be ‘during this period I met a total stranger who became my friend and then as the relationship grew we decided to get married and she became my wife.  (imagine that.  Married a total stranger!!)

Through my in laws I was provided with a sit on top sea kayak to use and a seed was planted that would grow into another full blossoming hobby.  Kayak fishing!  Since then I have enjoyed many fishful and fishless trips in around the beautiful coffs coast.

Ready to go-charlesworth bay.

wonder what the best whale lure would be?

not a bad day off sawtell.

GT in kalang river.

Some big fish.

And little fish!

Next to grow was the gripping fever that is whitewater kayaking!  After guiding on the nymboida river and becoming very interested in hard boating (rafters reference to whitewater kayaking) I finally bit the bullet and got the antidote (of sorts).  I bought my very own kayak around easter 2009.  Below is  a vid that describes the first few months of kayaking.

My baby boat learning to swim!

Now that you’re updated/forewarned you can either look forward to the next adventure or, delete your history and cache so that you never come here again, even accidentally.

worleybird