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Australian Duo Enjoying Beer on Inflatable Mattress Drift Away into Sea
Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:25 pm
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Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer had taken the air mattress and a cooler full of beer into the water in front of Palmer’s oceanside house, located just south of Perth on Australia’s West Coast. They’d intended to spend the day relaxing no more than 50 yards from shore, but the wind had other plans.
“We couldn’t paddle against the wind and we just kept going further and further out,” said Perry in an interview with Sunrise, an Australian morning news program. “We only aimed to be 100 metres offshore, max, and before we knew it we were out to sea.”
With the batteries on their phones dwindling, Palmer and Perry called their friend Tex, who they knew was about 30 minutes away from their location. As the wind carried them two-and-a-half miles out into the Indian Ocean, the pair noticed they were gradually sinking, due to the fact the mattress was full of pinholes. To stay afloat, Palmer jumped off the mattress every few minutes and reinflated it manually while the duo waited for help to arrive.
After three hours of drifting, Tex arrived on a jet ski to rescue his friends, and was quickly followed by a team of volunteer rescuers who helped bring Perry and Palmer to shore. When asked if they had any advice to other people who enjoy drinking on floating air mattresses, Perry said to “definitely check the wind forecast before anything,” but expressed no regrets about his death-defying adventure into the briny blue expanse. “Other than that, we had a pretty good time.”
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Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:26 pm to Street Hawk
Probably just trying to get away from the man-eating spiders and MMA-trained kangaroos
Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:29 pm to Street Hawk
Australia is the Florida of the far east.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:38 pm to Street Hawk
Only thing missing is a rum ham.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 11:29 pm to Street Hawk
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Tex arrived on a jet ski to rescue his friends
Posted on 3/2/21 at 11:34 pm to Street Hawk
An Australian named Tex
Posted on 3/2/21 at 11:36 pm to Street Hawk
Not gonna lie, that would be quite the beer drinking stories to tell the buddies.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 12:27 am to 0x15E
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Probably just trying to get away from the man-eating spiders and MMA-trained kangaroos
and into the loving embrace of multiple shark species, evil jellyfish, god-damn-cobra-kang-sea-snakes, who knows what else.
Everything in Aussieland wants to frick you up.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 12:39 am to Street Hawk
quote:a tether
When asked if they had any advice to other people who enjoy drinking on floating air mattresses, Perry said
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:20 am to Street Hawk
American girls are suckers for the Aussie accent. Perfected mine in undergrad by hanging out with a couple of Aussies on the track team. Worked like a charm
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:22 am to Jim Rockford
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Australia is the Florida of the far east.
A bastion of Freedom, not being ruled by tyrants?
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:33 am to TigerV
Who knew Australia had a population of baws.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 6:35 am to Street Hawk
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When asked if they had any advice to other people who enjoy drinking on floating air mattresses, Perry said to “definitely check the wind forecast before anything
Our how about bringing a homemade anchor so you don't drift? That horrific experience and his take away is check the wind
This post was edited on 3/3/21 at 6:36 am
Posted on 3/3/21 at 7:21 am to Street Hawk
My grandparents brought all of us grandkids to Biloxi beach one summer. I was about 7 and it was my first time going to the beach. The had bought a little inflatable boat that I promptly claimed as mine. First day out, I climb into the little boat and sprawl out enjoying the waves. Next thing I know I hear my name being called ever so faintly. I prop myself up on my elbows and am shocked to see my grandmother is nothing more than a speck on the horizon. Now this was 1982 so of course I have visions of jaws coming after my little narrow arse so I lay on my stomach with my feet/legs dangling in the water and start kicking frantically. My aunt met me half way and pulled me in. My grandfather had been laughing the whole time.
Posted on 3/3/21 at 7:35 am to Roman Candle Tag
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Everything in Aussieland wants to frick you up.
Dingos ate the bai-by!
Posted on 3/3/21 at 8:10 am to Street Hawk
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just south of Perth on Australia’s West Coast.
one of the best places to get attacked by a great white...no thanks
Posted on 3/3/21 at 8:11 am to Topwater Trout
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just south of Perth on Australia’s West Coast.
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one of the best places to get attacked by a great white...no thanks
yep, seems like every Aussie shark story starts off with somewhere south of Perth
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