THE SKY HIGH RESCUE CLUB
ERICKA O’SHEA’S eligibility came through the day she broke her ankle.
As a volunteer for the Bream Head Conservation Trust, she and her husband were staking out trap lines in the claustrophobic foliage of Te Whara Track near Whangarei, when she heard a jarring crack.
MEMBERSHIP TO THE HAAST CLUB ALSO OFFERS A SILVER LINING FOR WHAT IS OFTEN A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
“I was walking on a benign part of the track, and I put my foot on some tree roots with leaves over them. My right foot slipped, and I buckled down over my left foot,” O’Shea says.
The sound was like a
