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Sea-sickness

To: "Tony Russell" <>
Subject: Sea-sickness
From: "Keith Weekes" <>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:44:47 +1000
Tony - how are your teeth mate? Sounds like you can barely leave the house
without a chunder!

Moe seriously though, I'm sure you can get patches for those who are worried
about regurgitating the medication, although I can't recall finding them in
Australia.

On 31/08/2007, Tony Russell <> wrote:
>
> Yep, tried dramamine. Came up again intact.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Russell Woodford
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: birding birding-aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Sea-sickness
>
>
> Dramamine for me.  Taken the night before  - makes me unbelievably
> sleepy for the first hour or two, and drowsy on and off for the rest
> of the day.
> But worth it 100 times over to be able to look for birds instead of
> for a clear meter of gunwale to lean over ...
>
>
> Makes me wonder, though ... when will ASADA / BOCA / BARC decide to
> get tough on drug-cheats????
>
> Can't you just picture it - being drug-tested at the end of a long
> pelagic?  Any birder with proscribed substances being banned form
> pelagics for two years - or worse still, not being allowed to count
> that day's ticks!!!
>
> Russell (who really should go on another pelagic soon)
>
> On 30/08/2007, at 1:36 PM,  wrote:
>
> > G'day all
> >
> > I was as sick as it is possible to be on my first trip (mid 1980's)
> > orut
> > from Portland. Vic.  Since then I have a system that involves
> > Travacalm
> > pills.  One about 90 mins before departure, one as you get onto the
> > boat
> > and one at 1000.  Makes your food taste a bit off and can make you
> > drowsy
> > but many trips later I've never been sick again.
> >
> > Oh, when Travacalm was unavailable for a while I tried Quells and they
>
> > worked for me as well.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> > Hamilton, Vic
> >
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