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Walking into the lunch meeting with the residual projected image  "Sense of Adventure" showing,  I thought maybe by mistake this was some sports club meeting -not the Hawthorn Rotary Club lunch.   Not so, Katrina Flinn a recently joined member was about to shame us all with tales of her past energetic pursuits all wrapped into her "Member behind the Badge" address.

Somewhere hiding behind a series of overseas adventures was the conservative banker of 20 + years experience.  To the pleasure of everyone stories of the adventure trails prevailed (albeit there was a promise to come back again with stories of her banking experiences).   In succession we heard of ballooning, white water rafting, safaris in the Okovango delta( beware the elephants , extortionists and knife wielding robbers), hiking in China, Japan, Italy, jet skiing, and a couple of minor basic physical challenges.  There was the 100 kilometre walk  and even as late as early this year the 20 kilometre obstacle course with her work team--highlighted by the "Arctic Enema Mud Bath" obstacle.  The reader should translate this as a freezing mud pit perhaps one plus metres deep, and several metres long which the player must traverse, and moreover submerse themselves to get through a waste high barrier---fun.   Portrayed in one slide was the joy? on Katrina's face as she progressed this.  

Katrina explained that all her life these exciting adventures had  given her underlying personal development benefits , namely facing a challenge out of one's  comfort zone and becoming a team player to collectively carry out some task.