An old Mexican woman gave him hot garlic to put in his ear. That eased the pain. American campers gave him antibiotics and that cleared it up. You reach a strange place when you re paddling for 10-12 hours a day. Memories are funny, you can t remember pain.
Negative memories seem to be sieved out.
But he had to worry about his equipment, his three cameras. That kayak was one big camera bag for me. I stashed the tripod on the deck of the kayak and that was ruined by salt by the end of the trip. Later, Darack nearly lost his kayak when another wind blew up. I washed up on a rocky beach, a point of land I didn t know existed.