Kenya was at the heart of an astonishing rugby story this week when British born rugby player Antony Blackmore revealed he was attacked by a crocodile while teaching in Africa – but didn’t tell his team-mates when he returned.
Blackmore was airlifted to a hospital in Kenya to be treated for the life threatening attack that occurred in Lake Malawi last year.
The 27-year-old only revealed his story when interviewed for a television documentary while playing for Melksham.
He said: “It was a boiling hot day and I decided to go out on my own for a swim. I was about 100 yards off the shore treading water and without any sort of warning I just got ripped down and started to get rolled around.
“It was a very strange feeling, one part of my brain was quite sure I was going to die at that point, I was thinking ‘this is it now’.
“By chance I struck it (the crocodile) around the eye with my other foot. I felt it slow down, ripped my foot out of its mouth and swam to the surface.”
Surgeons in Kenya saved his foot and 60 stitches later he was mend, and while he is back playing rugby, it’s not without a few comments from his team-mates.
“Since they found out there’s been a lot of mickey-taking, I’ve had a lot of stick, but it’s all been light-hearted stuff. They said ‘you can fight off a crocodile but you can’t get anywhere near the ball’, that sort of thing.”
He added: “The programme describes the pressures of rising populations and the fact that more and more people are taking tourist trips around the world. I didn’t mind talking about it because I feel I was incredibly lucky.”
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