Keith gets a buzz

Outdoors all-rounder Keith Dekkers once told me he only went tramping for the social contact. He said his real love was what he called 'buzz sports'. These were things like skiing, cave diving, flying a microlight, mountain biking, etc. It was the adrenaline rush he was after.

Well I heard Keith recently got a real buzz out of a trip to Stewart Island.

He was down in remote Port Pegasus with a big group of kayakers, mostly just paddling around. However they'd also done the usual thing down there, walking inland to climb Bald Knob and the Frasers Peaks.

Well unfortunately Keith got himself stung by a bumble bee and he had an allergic reaction to it. He had to be lifted out by helicopter and flown to hospital in Invercargill. There he received the standard treatment - a hefty injection of adrenaline.

Yeeeehaahh!!!!