A2-Sunday News, November 9, 1950

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by Bob Hunter

Home from the sea - I

A North Shore couple, Myron MacDonald and
Leslie Norris, have returned from a round-the-
world odyssey in their 36-foot sloop, Wings I
which is now tied up in Mosquito Creek.

They set out in 1976, went
to Maui, Hawaii, down to
Fanning Island, over to
American Samoa, In-
dependent Samoa, Fiji, the
Solomon Islands, Australia,
across the Indian Ocean,
Stopping at Rodriques and
Mauritius Islands, to South
Africa, across the Atlantic to
Fernando de Noronha, off
the bump of Brazil, up to

Tobago, through the
Panama Canal to the
Galapagoes, over to the

Hawaiian island of Oahu,
where they hung a hard right
and made their way home.
Myron is a doctor who
practised for nine years im
West Van before setting out
on the voyage, and who,
incidentally, has returned to
his old practice. Leslie is an.
avante garde craftsperson
who ran a little clothing and
jewellery shop on Lower
Lonsdale, called L’Ouef.

When they set out, there
was some concern on the
part of their fnends that
between Myron's gentle
nature and Leslie’s artistic
sensitivity, they night not
have the Right Stuff to
circumnavigate the whole
actual planet, fighting
storms, sharks, pirates and

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like in a romantic novel,
Leslie is pregnant.

Adventures? Well,
remember that an adventure

is what happens when
everything goes wrong.
Indeed, they had many
adventures ...

The one that occurred at
Fanning Island was the most
hair-raising. Fanning is near
Christmas Island, in the
absolute middle of the
Pacific. There, they saw six-
toed cats called Christmas
Island Cats, a legacy of
British nuclear tests that
were carried out many years
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Leslie paddled the dinghy
back to the boat and Myron
was left, rather inebriated,
on the beach. Making an
uncharacteristically poor
decision, the good doctor
plunged into the water and
started to swim toward the
boat.

Too late, he heard a voice
from the shore yell: “Hey,
watch out for the tide!”

Myron recalls:

“That's when I noticed the
village lights sweeping by at
six knots. Next stop, Japan. I
was terrifically frightened. |
knew there were tiger sharks
out there, waiting for the
tide to empty. Tiger sharks
are the most vicious of the
lot. I knew I'd made a very
bad mistake.”

The two hours he spent in -

the water seemed lke a
lifetime.

“] became immediately
lucid. I could feel the sharks
moving in the water around

me. I swam as strongly as I
could perpendicular to the
current. I tried to pretend
not to be frightened. I told
myself: Don't act like food!”

Obviously, it worked. He
finally reached a tide eddy,
which saved him from being
washed further out to sea,
and crawied exhaustedly
back to shore.

“Gee, I was delighted to
be alive,” he says.
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