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First family camping trip to France we went with another family. I was 10 my friend was 11 and our dads challenged us to swim across a small bay in exchange for an ice cream. So being yound lads and reasonably good swimmers we went for it. Halfway across my friend screamed and shot out of the water up the beach in agony. Turns out he'd trapped a jellyfish between the inside of his upper arm and the side of his chest doing the breatstroke.

Kind of camping related for me: the OH and I took a campervan round New Zealand a few years ago. Stopped over in Los Angeles on the way to NZ where I stepped on a Stingray in the sea on our last day. I've broken a few bones in my time but I've never felt pain like it. OK, didn't quite happen whilst camping, but spent the next few weeks motoring around NZ in a campervan with a swollen foot.

on holiday in france this year i took a big swing onto the waterslides and whacked my coxcex (spelling?) on the top, because of momentum i had no choice but to carry on down the slide,  i thought i was going to faint & have to fished out of the pool ! 2 very uncomftable weeks in a tent followed, OH said it my own fault, pointing out i'm 40 not 14 !

it took 6 weeks & pysiotherapy to recover fully

Quote: Originally posted by belinda1512 on 28/10/2008

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on holiday in france this year i took a big swing onto the waterslides and whacked my coxcex (spelling?) on the top, because of momentum i had no choice but to carry on down the slide,  i thought i was going to faint & have to fished out of the pool ! 2 very uncomftable weeks in a tent followed, OH said it my own fault, pointing out i'm 40 not 14 !

it took 6 weeks & pysiotherapy to recover fully

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Coccyx...base of the spine which is the remnant of the prehistoric days when humans had tails of a fashion.

 

Yours,ever so smugly.

sadly last year our daughter fell of the campsite climping framebreaking a bone in her wrist, 2 days in hospital + 1 operation later ,all fixedso w2e ended up with only 2 x days holiday instead of 7,and it was the hotest week of the whole year.