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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
SW friendliness
Goto love the locals and there feelings, yup only a surfer knows the feeling...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Train to show
Off to go watch As I Lay Dying!!!
Yes please...
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Location:Duncraig,Australia
Friday, March 26, 2010
Setup on iPhone
Goto love the iPhone and new apps! Just purchased my blog app so can have more consistent live updates as I go along... Yewwww
Ps yes you can download the domino pizza app, order it when you get out the surf and pick it up on the way home... Love you iPhone!
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Location:Perth
Updates
Ok, so the week has come to an end but its been busy.
Boys have sorted out there new wetties which they are stoked about. Plans are coming together nicely and just finished fixing off the film water housing of Matts that had a leak...BOOM thats done and repaired.
jetski panel and compartment have fixed / reinforced and now thats all ready to go also....oooeee! yes my hands smell of resin haha. Two birds killed with one stone.
My camera has just been cleared from customs today. STOKED! So should hopefully arrive today / Monday...however just got called up that we hitting Margs on Monday / Tuesday and looks like some all time Box might be going down....so will be road tripping there for 2 days to surf and film. Will keep updates coming on that side....YEWWW!
Oz is sick, hitting solid roadtrip down SW Oz around the 9th April till about the 24th April, should be heaps of footage coming from that as we are taking,
2 x water housings for film
1 x land camera rig setup
1 x jetski
2 x solid cars / 4x4
so hold thumbs for the swell and conditons. After that will be moving down to Margs for the prime month of May to work and just surf non stop...
Thats it from me for now, still looking for a car...
PS - Dont Stop Dreaming part II is kicking off with some mighty fine action thats going to go down in the books! Through my travels in Oz will be working on the 2nd part filming and shooting as i go along / doing interviews etc....so if you are in Oz or coming over drop me a line!!!
Leave you with this pic from the first session to end off :)
Monday, March 22, 2010
Margs Weekend
Just met up with Wade and Jake on Saturday morning just gone, at 6am we hit the road down to Margs for a weekend of good fun!
we rocked upto some pretty good solid firing box with a bunch of kook surfers out. Amaray was out before out and even the bombs he was taking off on the surfers were burning him...so ja he didnt stay out long.
First time paddled box and got some nuggets none the less, some inside deep bombs with good 4 - 6ft... was pretty stoked with much time out the water was loving the sesh with a nice air forward out the bowl, solid backflip and huge roll into the flats that almost knocked my arm out my socket...felt good to be back in action! Wade H, got some bombs on the DK and was killing it out there. Our friend Jake was getting cleaned up on the inside with constant bad luck, to funny and good times....
chilled at Pia and Phillipa's camper home for the night and ended up scoring some super good fun Cobbles the next morning for the whole day. Had heaps of good fun waves and super shallow flat reef but with some nice boost sections if you feel brave enough.
Met some booger kids out there that were at Box the day before getting some inside ones, super cool kid about maybe 10 - 12 years of age called Lachia that has super good potential and from Trigg area.
We all got some super fun waves throughout the day, was pretty stoked with a solid ARS and massive backflip out the bowl in less then knee deep reef....starting to feel alive and more pumped then ever to push on hard now!!
Back in Perth now and was only a weekend trip, good fun and so much surfing and absolutely smashed. This week is pretty chilled and not much swell. Going to be working on the GoPro housing, Matts old housing fixing the leak, hopefully my Canon 7D arrives and my wettie from Reeflex should be coming through tomorrow or wednesday.
PUMPED!
we rocked upto some pretty good solid firing box with a bunch of kook surfers out. Amaray was out before out and even the bombs he was taking off on the surfers were burning him...so ja he didnt stay out long.
First time paddled box and got some nuggets none the less, some inside deep bombs with good 4 - 6ft... was pretty stoked with much time out the water was loving the sesh with a nice air forward out the bowl, solid backflip and huge roll into the flats that almost knocked my arm out my socket...felt good to be back in action! Wade H, got some bombs on the DK and was killing it out there. Our friend Jake was getting cleaned up on the inside with constant bad luck, to funny and good times....
chilled at Pia and Phillipa's camper home for the night and ended up scoring some super good fun Cobbles the next morning for the whole day. Had heaps of good fun waves and super shallow flat reef but with some nice boost sections if you feel brave enough.
Met some booger kids out there that were at Box the day before getting some inside ones, super cool kid about maybe 10 - 12 years of age called Lachia that has super good potential and from Trigg area.
We all got some super fun waves throughout the day, was pretty stoked with a solid ARS and massive backflip out the bowl in less then knee deep reef....starting to feel alive and more pumped then ever to push on hard now!!
Back in Perth now and was only a weekend trip, good fun and so much surfing and absolutely smashed. This week is pretty chilled and not much swell. Going to be working on the GoPro housing, Matts old housing fixing the leak, hopefully my Canon 7D arrives and my wettie from Reeflex should be coming through tomorrow or wednesday.
PUMPED!
quick update
some quick pics from our first warm up roadie to get into the water...
images thanks to Mads for joining us on the trip and giving it a bash for first time bodyboarding photography and got some good shots even though it was a Canon 450D with 3fps...
good times for sure!
images thanks to Mads for joining us on the trip and giving it a bash for first time bodyboarding photography and got some good shots even though it was a Canon 450D with 3fps...
good times for sure!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Road Trip 101
After a much anticipated wait, the car was packed and ski hitched and 4 days layed ahead of us (Matt, his lady Madeleine and myself)...
About 6pm on the thursday night we hit the road to pick up Madeleine and head down south.
The locations of where we went to unfortunately cant give exact names or surrounding towns...lets just say the coastlines are widely spread and you need to know where you going for the waves and the conditons ;)
We arrived after a long haul and much kangaroo dodging through the forests, as you get closer to the coasts you just start spotting loads of them, had a few close calls but didnt hit any of the them which was good! with a Roo Bar on the front of the car, 2 big spots and a ski you just have to flatten them if they get in the way as to dangerous to swerve out the way...
so we arrived at our first spot and pitched our swags and hit the bed for an early start.
we woke up and headed down to a beach that looked like a scene from Jarrasic park, a long mission to get to the wave but well worth it! Where is it or how do you find it? Let's just say it's in Oz ;)
As we arrived at the spot we were greeted with empty waters and a perfect slab doing its thing at a good solid 4ft over about 1 ft of water. PERFECTION! Every wave just to perfect and just turning itself inside out as it reached the channel.
Matt and i suited up and headed out while Madeleine manned the cameras :) We paddled most the morning and just scooping into the maddest barrels and getting gassed out into the channel, couldnt ask for much more...oh not to forget how super warm the waters were!!
After the session we packed and made a long trip to Albany to catch up with Kade / Merlin and a bunch of friends. We decided to load up the car and head for another paddle at a spot called SandDumps.
On the way down the police pulled us over and gave me a spot fine for being a passenger for not wearing my seatbelt! and getting a AUS$500 (about R3700) fine SUPER BUMMED!
Spent the night in Albany and surfed a spot called Cheynes Bay, fun right hander wedge but didnt stay long as winds changed and Kade spotted about a 3m great white on his first wave, while surfing down the line the thing swam under neath him and headed straight to the shore! Waters being so warm and super clean easy to spot from a mile away...
We headed back to Albany and then packed up and headed down to Margs. After a long drive and about 5hrs on the road we arrived and Paul and Brenda Hannis house to crash in the carvan for the next couple of nights...super amazing family and really good kids and not to forget good old BOOF the dog!
Missioned around and hit up all the spots, met up with Shane and Ryan also Matts friends who joined us along the way. Got some fun waves at Supers, North Point, Gas Bay. Swell failed to rock up as needed so we didnt get to do any towouts and towed the ski all around for nothing...oh well guess you win some and you lose some...
bring the ski back in down at Margs, Matt makes me jump off to hold it so it doesnt bash into the jetty...as i jump in the water Matt starts shouting watch out as thinks its a massive rock, when im standing still and see if moving towards me i jump up and hug the ski for life to see a massive Manta Ray about the size of the ski cruise just underneath me with his big long barb....SHEW! To flippen close for call and scary...haha
none the less this was a good start to the taste of roadies to comes!
thanks to everyone for letting us crash, showing us around and the good times :)
just waiting to get the pics from Madeleiene as my camera hadnt arrived yet. Will post in the next few days....
Next major roady is going to be mid April, with the hitting up of spots like House, Ron Dogs, The Right (if its big enough), Cyclops and many other mutant slabs that havent been mentioned yet...
About 6pm on the thursday night we hit the road to pick up Madeleine and head down south.
The locations of where we went to unfortunately cant give exact names or surrounding towns...lets just say the coastlines are widely spread and you need to know where you going for the waves and the conditons ;)
We arrived after a long haul and much kangaroo dodging through the forests, as you get closer to the coasts you just start spotting loads of them, had a few close calls but didnt hit any of the them which was good! with a Roo Bar on the front of the car, 2 big spots and a ski you just have to flatten them if they get in the way as to dangerous to swerve out the way...
so we arrived at our first spot and pitched our swags and hit the bed for an early start.
we woke up and headed down to a beach that looked like a scene from Jarrasic park, a long mission to get to the wave but well worth it! Where is it or how do you find it? Let's just say it's in Oz ;)
As we arrived at the spot we were greeted with empty waters and a perfect slab doing its thing at a good solid 4ft over about 1 ft of water. PERFECTION! Every wave just to perfect and just turning itself inside out as it reached the channel.
Matt and i suited up and headed out while Madeleine manned the cameras :) We paddled most the morning and just scooping into the maddest barrels and getting gassed out into the channel, couldnt ask for much more...oh not to forget how super warm the waters were!!
After the session we packed and made a long trip to Albany to catch up with Kade / Merlin and a bunch of friends. We decided to load up the car and head for another paddle at a spot called SandDumps.
On the way down the police pulled us over and gave me a spot fine for being a passenger for not wearing my seatbelt! and getting a AUS$500 (about R3700) fine SUPER BUMMED!
Spent the night in Albany and surfed a spot called Cheynes Bay, fun right hander wedge but didnt stay long as winds changed and Kade spotted about a 3m great white on his first wave, while surfing down the line the thing swam under neath him and headed straight to the shore! Waters being so warm and super clean easy to spot from a mile away...
We headed back to Albany and then packed up and headed down to Margs. After a long drive and about 5hrs on the road we arrived and Paul and Brenda Hannis house to crash in the carvan for the next couple of nights...super amazing family and really good kids and not to forget good old BOOF the dog!
Missioned around and hit up all the spots, met up with Shane and Ryan also Matts friends who joined us along the way. Got some fun waves at Supers, North Point, Gas Bay. Swell failed to rock up as needed so we didnt get to do any towouts and towed the ski all around for nothing...oh well guess you win some and you lose some...
bring the ski back in down at Margs, Matt makes me jump off to hold it so it doesnt bash into the jetty...as i jump in the water Matt starts shouting watch out as thinks its a massive rock, when im standing still and see if moving towards me i jump up and hug the ski for life to see a massive Manta Ray about the size of the ski cruise just underneath me with his big long barb....SHEW! To flippen close for call and scary...haha
none the less this was a good start to the taste of roadies to comes!
thanks to everyone for letting us crash, showing us around and the good times :)
just waiting to get the pics from Madeleiene as my camera hadnt arrived yet. Will post in the next few days....
Next major roady is going to be mid April, with the hitting up of spots like House, Ron Dogs, The Right (if its big enough), Cyclops and many other mutant slabs that havent been mentioned yet...
Monday, March 8, 2010
Camera battle
Still battling to get the camera sorted in time! They say they are having problems with my card but not to sure..,
Had a fun splash this evening at Triggs with s million owes out follewed by some good burgers and hanging out with some of Matts friends.
Off to bed and another day ahead... This time must not forget my passport so can open that bank account and get a number tomorrow!
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Had a fun splash this evening at Triggs with s million owes out follewed by some good burgers and hanging out with some of Matts friends.
Off to bed and another day ahead... This time must not forget my passport so can open that bank account and get a number tomorrow!
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
Flatness
I've arrived in Perth after a long haul, had about 30kgs of luggage and about 17kgs hand luggage and got away with it all, STOKED!!!
Went for two short paddles today with Matt in baggies as it was so nice and warm. Went through to his friends house to go chill out a bit this evening. Been really sweet so far a Matt and parents have been super amazing! Going to chill hard tomorrow and hit a lunch time swim, Matts got some mad studies to get through and clock up the hours so chilling hard...looks like some good swell might be pulling through in Thursday so we will either head to Margs for the long weekend or hit up Rotto box and all the other breaks on the island with the ski and shoot some mad stuff!
Off to bed now and another long day ahead, will probably get some sleep in and try get a few errands done...
Signing out from perth / wa
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Went for two short paddles today with Matt in baggies as it was so nice and warm. Went through to his friends house to go chill out a bit this evening. Been really sweet so far a Matt and parents have been super amazing! Going to chill hard tomorrow and hit a lunch time swim, Matts got some mad studies to get through and clock up the hours so chilling hard...looks like some good swell might be pulling through in Thursday so we will either head to Margs for the long weekend or hit up Rotto box and all the other breaks on the island with the ski and shoot some mad stuff!
Off to bed now and another long day ahead, will probably get some sleep in and try get a few errands done...
Signing out from perth / wa
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Almost there..
left CT this morning and had a 1 1/2hrs delay in JHB as 3 passengers got lost in the terminal, dont ask how?! then there was a pot hole on the run which had to be fixed first...can you believe it!
well just killing about 6hrs in kululumpar at the moment, so almost there...wanted to pick up a new Canon 7D but they are out of stock and super cheap this side, the lady reckons can get for cheap in Oz.
sweet, thank goodness for starbucks! YUM
now just need new body so can start taking some pics...
well just killing about 6hrs in kululumpar at the moment, so almost there...wanted to pick up a new Canon 7D but they are out of stock and super cheap this side, the lady reckons can get for cheap in Oz.
sweet, thank goodness for starbucks! YUM
now just need new body so can start taking some pics...
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