DESERT ISLAND DIARY 22/09/2002
Can't keep going much longer. Drinking seawater is making my eyes itch and I am having to eat my own vomit to stay alive.
It's not all bad though, I trapped some worm things with my feet and ate them this morning.
I saw a light aircraft pass overhead early this morning, just after first light. I used the last of my energy in a frenzy of waving and screaming, but it did not seem to notice me. If anyone reading this has a pilot friend and tonight you are talking to him and he mentions that he saw some crazy guy doing a dance on a beach on a little island near Borneo, then get him come come back?
Thanks.
18/09/2002
I'm in the seventh stage of starvation now, my own fingers are starting to look extremely appetising and I keep seeing food that isn't there. Like in those cartoons where the Wile-E-Coyote looks at Roadrunne and the bird turns into a giant, steaming, roast chicken? Only I'm looking at rocks and sand and they change into chicken, and Mars Bars, and fruit, and it's just not very funny.
Broke a tooth on a rock when I tried to eat it thinking it was an Avacado. After the first bite I knew, in my heart of hearts, that it was just a rock, but I kept telling myself it might be a really tough avacado, in need of a little more ripening, and I kept biting until I was spitting teeth and all I could taste was blood and rock and just a slight subtle hint of avacado.
12/09/2002
Dug a hoel in the sand on the beach and buried myself, wanted to stay there but I thought I saw a picnic hamper of food washed up on the shore. I dug myself out and it was just some seaweed. Ate it anyway.
08/09/2002
Please, please, please stop Emailing me recipes and pictures of food. It's not funny.
30/08/2002
I've eaten all the hairs on my legs and arms. I am squatting on the beach now, waiting for them to grow back so I can eat them again.
COme on,,..
Com e on...
I think if I eat a couple of layers of skin it will grow back soon, but its hard not to bite a bit deeper. Got some sand in a nasty bite on my arm, it hurts. My teeth are smooth as glass from eating sand, my tongue is swollen and when I bite down on it, it makes a funny sound. Wish I had a microphone and I could record the sound it makes. It hurts if I make my tongue do the funny sound too much.
I thought I could breathe underwater earlier and walked into the sea to try it. I was mistaken. I breathe air. When I crawled back to the beach I coughed up all this hair, it got stuck in my throat, I looked like a cat with a hairball. Heh. I guess you had to be there.
29/08/2002
I tried to kill some birds that were flying overhead by making a makeshift slingshot. I did manage to hit a couple, but just made them angry.
I had no idea that a divebombing seabird could be so painful or terrifying.
