birding on crutches

[Geoff Price <>]

Tony, please don't make your, ahem, invention sound too much like a dare 
- I am incapable of resisting them and it was a dare that wrecked my 
knee in the first place! Hanging a third crutch around my neck whilst 
birding from a skateboard with opaque goggles and a straightjacket may 
be possible - but I don't really want to be the cadaver in the morgue 
that proves it's not!! (But part of me really does want to know ... )
Geoff

On 17/04/2011 1:39 PM, Tony Russel wrote:
> If you got a third crutch you could fix your bins to the second rung and
> hook the top of the crutch over your neck and still look through the bins.
>
> Tony the inventor.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Denise
> Goodfellow
> Sent: Sunday, 17 April 2011 9:40 AM
> To: Gemfyre; Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] birding on crutches
>
> Hi Belinda
> Nice to hear from you.  I hope your knee is healed.
>
> I've found my office chair great for getting around home, but I've got work
> in Kakadu that involves "rough spots"! I'm thinking of getting a knee crutch
> if it hasn't healed by early May.
> Regards
> Denise
>
> on 17/4/11 9:14 AM, Gemfyre at  wrote:
>
>    
> > It really depends where you're birding.  When I badly injured my knee and
> > was on crutches for about 4 months I ended up hiring a wheelchair - that
> >      
> way
>    
> > I could get around spots where there were paths easily without exhausting
> > myself, and I still had my hands free.
> >
> > I didn't even attempt spots with rough terrain.
> >
> > Belinda Forbes
> > Stirling W.A.