Anything written in the new papers this week about those brave two Australian kayakers Justin Jones and James Castrission will be in instant page turner for me. I just don’t get it and I couldn’t care less that they were able to paddle from Australia to New Zealand. What does it prove?

You didn’t see the late great Sir Edmund Hillary putting daily entries on his blog page, checking his positioning via GPS or feeling the quite confidence of a prepared rescue plan in place. His achievement was so famous because he did it without any chance of rescue. If these two kayak kids had achieved their feat facing Hillary type obstacles I may have been interested. The fact they made it just means we, the taxpayers are saved the expense from trying to rescue these them.

One of them has even had the audacity to bust out the old “if you just believe in your dreams and don’t give up you will achieve your dreams” lines. People have been spruiking this old chestnut for decades. It is throw away lines like these, that propagate ideas of pointless achievement to the next hapless generation. Then again, my dream was to write an unsuccessful blog with a moderate following….. well, what do you know, another dream comes true.

Since they have succeeded maybe we can come up with some ideas for their next “great frontier”?