Liz Clark and The Voyage of Swell: Standout Moments Part 2

We recently posted a blog feature on the forever awesome Liz Clark showing an exclusive look at some of her standout moments of her life with the Voyage of Swell. The post can be found here: https://www.mizulife.com/blog/latest-news/liz-clark-and-the-voyage-of-swell-standout-moments-part-1/ There were too many incredible photos and stories to keep it to just one post, so here is the second installment. Keep on living a magical life, Liz, so we can all watch, dream, and be inspired! Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.44.28 PM …I showed up to this tiny island where I didn’t speak a word of the language and this lady motioned for me to get in her bike basket and peddled me around the island on a tour!?   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.45.48 PM … My buddies Ryan and Taylor found me in the middle of nowhere and brought a huge load of goodies and we scored! Taylor showing us how it’s done.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.47.35 PM …I got my first reef cut and realized that surfing perfect waves wasn’t as easy as I had imagined.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.48.46 PM …I met an 80 year old lady who lived alone in a valley and had recently killed a 600 lb wild pig.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.49.34 PM …I was using a car jack to try to re-install the motor mount boots on my engine and it exploded in my face.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.50.32 PM …I finally figured out how to backside tuberide!!   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.51.17 PM …I stayed so long in this one bay that there was a school of fish under the boat and in the morning the big tunas would come chase them and the baitfish would jump onto the deck and I’d run and collect them for breakfast!!!   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.52.01 PM …Raiarii and I did ‘copra’ on a remote atoll to earn a little extra cash. You break a mature coconut in half with an axe, open it and let it dry for 3 days in the sun (pray it doesn’t rain), then scoop out the meat, and stuff it all in burlap bags to sell to the oil factory. We made over 600 dollars!   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.52.42 PM …I was about to go night swimming but quickly realized it was not a good idea!   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.53.16 PM …I got head lice, likely right at this moment, from playing with the kids in the boatyard!?! It was horrible!?   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.53.55 PM …I found an abandoned fish trap with 15-20 sharks stuck inside and freed them!!   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.54.35 PM …my 1,500 nautical mile, solo passage from the Line Islands back to French Polynesia turned into a 15-day upwind hell ride against lightning storms and gale winds.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.55.07 PM …I came upon a lost baby seabird after cyclone Oli went through and I hand fed her fish and kept her as my pet.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.55.48 PM …Jimmy Buffett played at a tiny venue and I sailed up for the concert, ended up singing on stage with him, and then took him surfing the next day!?   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.56.26 PM …I got ciguatera from eating a lagoon fish and the western doctor told me to drink milk!? I spewed from both ends in a bucket and writhed in muscle pain for 10 days because milk activated the toxin. Finally a Paumotu grandmother made me the local plant remedy and I got better quickly.   Screen Shot 2015-02-12 at 1.56.56 PM …I rubbed the magic crystals and shortly after Lea and I stumbled upon whales who wanted to play!!!!