Axe is examining his failed attempt to cross the Tasman Sea after he was battered by hard waves and unfavorable winds and currents in his ocean-going kayak. Though he is doing some soul-searching, his kayak, ‘Simpson's Donkey’, is being repaired. The photo shows some of the beating he took by waves (later that evening the kayak capsized). Axe, now back in Coff's Harbor on the east coast of Australia,