The young girl and her Father swept off rocks at Whalers Way, Cape Carnot, Eyre Peninsula. All for a selfie, a family torn apart in an instant. What can we do to stop this happening, its a language thing. I am so sad about the tragic event.
Voicing negative judgements about the parent in the circumstances is disrespectful. I am sure the family of the victims is keen to ensure the parent is not seen as some fool who got his kid killed for some selfish motive like getting a selfie. Language problem, how did that get raised?
Iza
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Iza
Semi-permanent state of being Recreationally Outraged as a defence against boredom during lockdown.
I understand that the deceased were Chinese nationals. The signs were all in English, the co-owner of the kiosk told them about the dangers, my thoughts were that they didn't hardly understand a word and just nodded.
It is what it is , very sad. The moving finger etc. I have rescued Chineese folks from situations that I found incredible. Not a good idea to be clever. I once decided to go for a wonderfull nature walk on the Vietnam Cambodia border. I was busting to see all the critters just like I would in the Strezlekis. My Vietnameese companions didn't exactly chain me to prevent me from proceeding. I was about 100 metres into the jungle before I thought the better of it.
Sorry for you loss. No caring person would pinot the finger at your time of grief.
Voicing negative judgements about the parent in the circumstances is disrespectful. I am sure the family of the victims is keen to ensure the parent is not seen as some fool who got his kid killed for some selfish motive like getting a selfie. Language problem, how did that get raised?
Iza
I think you have miss read the intent of the statement by quoting only a portion of original post
Yes. I thank you. What my intention and what I stated is that a death is a death is a death. And whatever the causes were The people are still dead. And that is the tragedy
It is what it is , very sad. The moving finger etc. I have rescued Chineese folks from situations that I found incredible. Not a good idea to be clever. I once decided to go for a wonderfull nature walk on the Vietnam Cambodia border. I was busting to see all the critters just like I would in the Strezlekis. My Vietnameese companions didn't exactly chain me to prevent me from proceeding. I was about 100 metres into the jungle before I thought the better of it. Sorry for you loss. No caring person would pinot the finger at your time of grief.
Let me digress & provide the 'etc'
From the LX Quatrain of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam...
"The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: Nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it."
Love it ..
But .... An extremely sad event caused by who knows what.
I understand that the deceased were Chinese nationals. The signs were all in English, the co-owner of the kiosk told them about the dangers, my thoughts were that they didn't hardly understand a word and just nodded.
I'm hearing what you're saying re the language barrier, but having been there, I can't ever recall a kiosk out on Whaler's Way? Maybe I'm getting old lol!
I definitely agree about language & culture being a major issue in way too many drownings in SA in recent times. The poor souls down at Petrel Cove and Adelaide's suburban beaches come to mind. I'm sure there are more.
The kiosk is about 100m from where there are steps leading down the cliff so the surfies can get to the water. This is on the opposite side of the bay to where they found the platform where the whalers were boiling out the whale blubber.
We were going into the kiosk, but were warned not to as they were all very upset in there, so we cleared off so were out of the way, met the emergency vehicles coming in as we left.
