on 02-03-2014 05:00 PM
After almost a decade, the girl who loved the ocean had forgotten what it was like.
Schapelle Corby stumbled across a Balinese beach and threw herself into the water, falling clumsily under the waves as they crashed around her.
It was a symbolic moment in the convicted drug smuggler's first days of freedom and a rare victory against the media circus that has camped outside the luxury villa where she has been bunkered for the past three weeks.
Corby's return to the ocean happened spontaneously in front of Ku De Ta, the popular Seminyak bar and restaurant which is a favourite with Australians, especially the media.
The 36-year-old - one of the most recognisable faces in Indonesia and Australia - snuck away from the photographers surrounding her Kuta hideout, had her first drink in a bar in nine years and then walked to the beach unnoticed by the crowd around her.
Two weeks earlier, as she was driven from Kerobokan prison, her covered face captured in images which went around the world, she told the bodyguard beside her that she felt like a crab, "trying to get out of a mud crab cage".
"I'm tired of people just... keeping me as a show pony," she said.
"I just started crying because I just feel so, I am just used, they just used me.
"People judge me and say I'm a really bad person, but look at this - this is just... that's wrong.
"There's a lot of people who are kind of against me getting out.“
Corby said she remembered the frenzy which surrounded her trial nine years ago. But she didn't remember the waves.
"She had forgotten how rough the surf could be," her sister, Mercedes, said last week of Schapelle's first moments back in the ocean.
"I think in her head she must have had clear water, enjoying slow breaststroke and instead she was tumbled over by waves."
02-03-2014 05:03 PM - edited 02-03-2014 05:04 PM
awww Icy, I thought this was going to be about you.
I couldn't give a rats clacker if I never hear the name Schapelle again.
EDIT: because I can't type
EDITED AGAIN: because my grammer was worse than my typing
on 02-03-2014 05:07 PM
she should of brought her boogie board
on 02-03-2014 05:21 PM
Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.
on 02-03-2014 05:24 PM
@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:awww Icy, I thought this was going to be about you.
I couldn't give a rats clacker if I never hear the name Schapelle again.
EDIT: because I can't type
EDITED AGAIN: because my grammer was worse than my typing
Yeah, probably many ppl feel that way, Pimpy, but I feel sorry for her.
I think she was used by her family and by the Aus media.
Don't know whaffor your edits lol.
on 02-03-2014 05:29 PM
@pension.payment.plan wrote:Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.
Pens, I'd like to see her just pick up the pieces of her life and slip away into obscurity. She's still young enough to find happiness and I wish the raving slavering media would just let her go.
02-03-2014 05:30 PM - edited 02-03-2014 05:32 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@pension.payment.plan wrote:Icy, I really appreciate this post. So many people care about Schapelle and find her story interesting - I must have missed this news story re the beach, I found it fascinating and so do many others.
Pens, I'd like to see her just pick up the pieces of her life and slip away into obscurity. She's still young enough to find happiness and I wish the raving slavering media would just let her go.
Funny, I just made a comment on the other "Schapelle" thread to that effect. I think it's the media more interested in her than the public.
(although I've always found the Schapelle story intriguing - I thought the TV movie on her was okay but a bigger budget, perhaps theatrically released film would have done better justice to the story)
on 02-03-2014 05:33 PM
What.. no one saw her yet they got these amazing photos????
on 02-03-2014 06:14 PM
thanks for posting that Icy. i was wondering how she was doing....this is the first time i've seen the pics. she looks happy.
on 02-03-2014 08:17 PM
No one but the resident camera crew 🙂