Friday, October 30, 2009

BSC Demo Day

So i went and had a check at the BSC demo day today, and from what i could see, it was another huge success. There was alot of frothing grommies, and plenty of "older" guys checking out the latest and greatest boards. There was alot of pro's around too endorsing there boards and generally helping out with any inquiry's people may of had.

Will post pictures later of the event.

Sneaky Swell

So Thursday was a hoax and the charts were showing a brief pulse of SE swell on friday but , none of the charts really picked up on it and no one paid any attention to it. Was pretty bummed that there wasnt anything because the waves have been average for the last few days.

So friday morning i was down at the local early to get some shots of the sunrise and to my suprise at a 5:30am high tide (unless the local is big it doesnt really have a decent barrel at high tide) there were some really nice open pits coming through at around the 3-4foot size with a nice and light westerly wind grooming the main peak's. There was no one on it except for Butt's (local photographer) frolicking in the water with his rig taking some soul session shots.

Knowing i had another 2hours before the tide droped even futher and it would turn on, i stayed and took my shot's only to have my brand new memory card break on me after 1hour 30mins of shooting. This was quite anoying as i was not able to post any of the pic's i had taken, and there were some keepers on it aswell.

Went home and got my gear and returned to still find no one on it and the waves were still good, mayb even better than they were when i saw them. As i sutied up a local surfer came and had a chat to me and decided he'd come and get a few waves, always good to share the waves with someone early morning --> *insert jaws theme *.

My first wave was an absolute screamer, as the tide had droped faster than i had thought it would. I took off on the main peak behind the rock's to have the first section barrel really fast, i took the high line only to have the second section go dry causing a step, now while riding a barrel this isnt the best thing for you as you loose your rail and most of your speed usually. But i just flew right over the section and managed to make this really long second section barrel. There was some really good early morning light which made it even more sweet, the water was a light green colour, felt like i was riding through a bottle of mountain dew.

As the morning went on the word spread that there was actually decent waves and the crowd consistantly grew, but not to a point where it was frustrating , just a group of mate's going wave for wave.

There was only 1 other wave of the session that was really memorable and worth posting. Every wave has its own set of local chargers and one of them was out today. As i was sitting out there i hear someone whistle from the rock's (which means paddle because a set is coming) and i see this really wide set coming through (thanks the 15second period south swell) and i was the only one in position for it. It was already feathering on the outside, it was going to close. Not really wanting to pull into the closeout onto the dry section i decided to start to paddel over, only to have one of the local chargers shout "GO Booger". There is only 1 response when someone call's this, so i turned around and threw myself over the edge of this closeout to have the reef go dry while i was freefalling. I managed to land the drop, pull an extremly tight bottom turn and have this gapping wall of water engulf me. Luckly the foamy caught up with me and i managed not to hit the bottom to hard or it could of been a very different outcome.


At about 12:45 the wind swung NE which killed the swell at this particular spot and i decided i to call it a day.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Yes You ---- > Grow Up

New Booger Film being made as we speak by Whitey and Jake stone called Grow Up.

The Films Website:
http://www.growup.com.au/


This is a new and fresh film and i cant wait to see the final product and i will most certainly be buying it and going to the premiere if possible.

Here is the trailer:

Grow Up bodyboard preview from jake stone on Vimeo.

BSC Demo Day Plug - Post being cut off for some wierd reason.


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Cant Wait For this to come along, ill sure be there testing out all the new boards.

I am putting this up on my blog to get as much publicity for the event as possible.

It would be great to see heaps of support for this company as they have supported us over the years!!!

Its free as well. "Free is always the best kind of event!"


Mug Shot (Click To Open)


©This is a shot of me in the barrel. (CLICK TO OPEN)


All Picture Credits go to the amazing photographer Ian Buttler "Butts"
This is a shot of me a few weeks back on a smaller but extremely fun day.


©This is a shot of me from behind the barrel while i was driving through. (CLICK TO OPEN)



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Saving Grace Of Text Messages

Im always the one ranting and raving about why people text around when the surf is on, but for once i was happy that it was happening as i awoke to my phone vibrating off my bedside table.
The Message read : Point good 3-4foot . That was all that was needed to get me out of bed in a flash and get my wetty and board and head for a session with some friends.

I arrived to find the crowd's enormous, but to my relief they were mostly Mal riders and shoulder huggers which both don't go well with a reef/point break.

After spending a week with good waves and no crowds and going back to Sydney to get average waves and big crowds it was overly frustrating. I managed to get a few waves before the tide was to low and caused the reef to go bone dry. This was booger hour- "where the surfers cant really ride the waves because of the reef". I stayed around for another 30minutes getting some really dry slabs before i came off on a bigger one to have my knee's cheese grated by the reef, i wasnt to phased as its happened numerous times , and besides the crowd was getting even bigger.


"Chick's Dig Scar's"

My New Steamer

Well my last 2 steamers have been officially worn out as the leg was torn off the last one on a particular day. (Note: there was a lot of broken seams already on the leg, and holes as well)
This new one from BSC is feeling just right on me and at only $130, it was a steal, really happy with this purchase.

here is a picture of it:

A Week Up The Coast 4th -10th October...

So I headed up the coast for a week with the family to the Port Stephens Area. I was after a week filled with no work/study , lots of waves and a chance to get some photography done. I usually go away with low expectations for surf in this area unless its really big because this beachie is renowned for sharks and really unbelievably bad banks And may i say this week was one of the best i have had in a while at this particular beach break. Swell didn't go under 2foot and the biggest it got was 6foot, and there was a few decent peaks to be had for everyone around.


Here is a little run down of my little adventure and the waves i caught:
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Sunday: Arrive up the coast just in time for the NRL grand final. Sit down with my brother and my dad for some "Man Time" and enjoy the usual football game, abusing the refferee, and commenting on how if we were on the field we would be doing such a better job than these trained proffesionals
Monday: Wake up with low expectations on the surf front to stumble up to the beach to find there is a nice and peaky 2-3foot swell hitting the primed banks. There was not a breath off wind and this saying will describe the conditions "as smooth as a babys bottom". ahahahah.
I manage to score an uncrowded peak and find myself pulling under and into these glassy curtains of water and having time stand still untill i am brought back to reality by either getting closed out of making the time warp/machine we call the "barrel".
This continued on for another 3hours untill the tide got to high and the banks had to much water on them and the waves went Fat.
I decided to call it a day
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Tuesday:
Prior to this day i knew it was going to be by far the worst day for waves, but i was determined to surf in any condition. It was sunny and there was no wind with 1-2foot swell peeling to the shore. So why not take advantage of these conditions from the usual onshore conditions we are usually faced with.
I suited up and was paddeling out to a peak and as cliche as this sounds i saw a black shadow moving near the other peak about 15metres to the left of me, only to have a guy on a surf ski shout shark. This was a wake up call for me and the other 4 surfers near the ski as they turned and paddeled in with super human strength and speed. I did not stick around to find if the shark was going to leave as it was only a small swell, but later that day i was talking to a local fisherman who said it was a really big bull shark. Yikes
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Wednesday: (The Day Before The Big Swel Was Due To Arrive)
Days before a swell event are always filled with anticipation and happy times. Today was no different as a 6foot south swell was expected with offshore winds at my beachie to fill in by the afternoon.
I woke up and did my weetbixs like a typical aussie and went round to a mates house who was staying up near me. This guy is an on and off booger who i converted a few years ago, he is not super confident and i have been edging him into bigger waves for around 4 years now. After much discussion and reasurance that it was not going to be huge till later this arvo, i managed to get him down for a boog with me and my brother. It was a super clean 2-3foot swell that was on the rise. Perfect to edge him into some bigger ones as they came through.
For the first 2hours i just swam around with my fins on helping my brother and mate on technique and helping them ride the waves alot better. The looks on there faces when they were getting some 100m rides on these little grinders was great, next best thing after catching waves is helping someone else catch them.
Then it was my turn for some waves, the next 8 hours involved me and my mate and my brother catching these wedgy peaks with a few other locals surfers. Including many breaks inbetween ofcourse. (My mate is a diabetic so he has to constantly be watched and eat otherwise he might go for a sleep with the fish's)
One highlight was when i got an inside grinder and managed to hit the side wave front on coming at me and i did one of the bigest back flips of my life. It was a super good feeling landing it aswell infront of some surfers who then commented on how good it looked.
After a super long session i decided to call it a day as my ankles were bleeding from my flippers rubbing so much.
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Thursday:
6-8foot South swell(with bigger bomb's occasionally), with 90km/hr Offshore winds and outerbanks breaking = not a day for a paddle in booger.

Today was an enourmous effort to get out to the break. I toughened up and decided to give the beachie a go as the winds were tearing into the reefs/points.
This session involved me duck diving, taking bomb sets on the head, and a sweep faster than you can say cheese. I managed to get 1 wave and that was to get back in after 45mins of paddeling. It was worth a try but without a jet ski i was not going to be getting many waves out there today.
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Friday:

Today delivered the good's, 4-5foot south swell, light offshore winds and some nice banks from yesterday's swell. The main peak was a grinding right that was really fast and powerful, BUT, not to fast to be able to make the long barrels that were available if you waited for the right one.
I got a lot of decent waves today but none that would stand out in my memory bank of "Michaels Waves" - "The Brain"

A Picture Of Me Taken by my Dad - A Frog Legged Reverse


My Little Rant From Today
The crowd's all came out of the nooks and crannies today as there was so many people on the waves, one thing about surfers and boogers is that they all tend to be like sheep, they see a peak with a lot of people and assume that, this wave is the better one because everyone is on it. But if they only stopped and watched for 5minutes they would realize that not only is it more crowded and inconsistent that 100m up the beach there is about 4 better peaks with litterally no one on them. I was once like this but have learned my lesson numerous times and paddeled out to an empty peak.

But my sheep theory came into action and gradually people would paddel out to me and then my peak would be overcrowded, so id move again. And it would get crowded again. By the end of this cycle i had paddeled so far up the beach i couldnt really see my gear. (was ok cause all i had was a towel, sunscreen and wax.)
RANT OVER
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Saturday:

This was the last day of my north coast adventure and i was determined to milk all the waves i could get. The swell was on the decline and the wind was around , so i decided to go to a back beach to find a clean 3-4foot swell. The weekend crowds were out again. Post Cont Bellow:
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Before i continue this post id like to differentiate between north coast weekend crowds and sydney crowd's:
Sydney Weekend Crowd's : Invasion - To Many To Count
Sydney Weekday crowd's: still quite alot of people, just bareable.

Coast's Weekend Crowd's: Can count with my fingers and toes
Coast's Weekday Crowd's: Can Count With My Fingers.

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Cont:
I managed to get some reasonably gaping barrels at this beachy today, and as the tide got lower so did the frequency of the bowling waves. Wave after wave in crystal clear water, quite tropical , and not a house in site, the way soul surfing should be. I decided as i had been booging prone all week to hit up the DK and double knee. Im quite a kook at dk with my overly large stealth flippers on so it was qutie an achievement to pull into some barrels dk. What was more fun was kneeboarding on the bodyboard, its so easy to steer the board and do big hacks and reverse's, and a different perspective in the barrel is always a plesent change.

This went on for another few hours before i headed back to sydey.

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And that was my week up the coast

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Mind Surfing Heaven

If You Are Ever Short Of Some Waves To Mind Surf , Or Just Appreciate A Good Surf Photographer Check Out Northern Beach's Photographer and ex riptide mod Steve Wall. He is very switched On, and knows what he is doing and has got the shots to prove it.

We are bound to see more of this bloke in the mag's in the coming years.

Check out his flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewallimages/

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Two Negatives Dont Equal A Positive - South Swell + Sydney And Swallowing Jelly Fish.

So why doesn't Sydney like south swell, oh yea that's right because it doesn't face that way - DOH!

Today there was some fun waves around 3-4foot, nice offshore winds, but a crowd the size of china's population, yes that's right billions of people.
I blame this on a few reason's:
  • All the ASP Womens Pro's were out practicing for the Layne Beachly Classic that will be held at dee why tommorow. So this includes the likes of Steph Gilmore etc...
  • Everyone has been wave starved lately for various reasons.
  • Yesterday was a hoax so everyone thought today was the day.
Also the water was infested with jelly fish of every size and shap, and i mean infested it felt like i was swimming though alphabet soup.

Besides all these reasons i still managed to get a few fun waves, in between all the "surfer crew" being out, the snaking s and dropping in's occurring.

One memorable wave from today was when one of the more capable surfers, to my utter amazement slipped on a sneaky inside grinder leaving the barrel to bowl section to me. Like i had a demon inside me i swung around and launched myself into the wave only to have the inside section go bone dry on me. Deciding it was to late to bail , i took the high line of the wave only to loose all my speed and get destroyed by the shocky. Just as i hit the surface of the water i tried to take a breath, which now as i think about it, was a big mistake as i managed to swallow about half the jelly fish population in one mouth full. As i surfaced i worriedly asked a few people if there was any long term implications to swallowing jelly fish, to which there response was, i dont know. They wernt the stinging type of jelly fish and im still alive now so there musnt be any harm from it.

Was quite an eventful and funny day even if the surf wasnt all time.


Picture From Today - Fun Little Backdoor barrel - Picture Thanks To
"don - realsurf.com"

Monday, September 28, 2009

Why Do We Have Swell Hoax's

So the swell was supposed to rise today to a solid 5-6foot South Swell with westerly offshore winds all day. I decided to get in early before all the crowd's descended on it, so i arrived at point at 10:30 knowing that some swell had hit down south(ulla) and swell had hit the bouy's up north (newy). To my suprise the swell was hardly 3foot. As i had nothing to do today, i decided to sit around and wait for this new swell to arive.

Here is a timeline of how my day eventuated.
10:20 - decided to go for an early before the swell hit.
10:30 - arive at surf to find waves not even pushing 3foot
11:30 - 1st hour in the water and no swell rise. occasional 3foot coming through. swell is super bumpy and not entising like i thought it would be.
12:30 - 2nd hour in the water and like before no giant push in the swell. A 4footer did come through though that i managed to snag and hit the backdoor section with a lofty roll. Getting semi impatient that the swell isnt here.
1:30 - 3rd hour, still no push in swell, becoming increasingly worried that the swell was not actually going to hit sydney.
2:30 - waves consistantly 3-4foot, tide way to full for it to be an eventful surf.
2:45 - Winds turn SE and kills what ever surf prospects anyone had for that arvo.


Over all it was a very boring and time consuming gamble that did not pay off. i guess you win some and you loose some. Today i lost out big time.
Oh well - Note To Self: to be a good bodyboarder its good to train in all conditions.

Hopefully the swell push's through tommorow.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Swell Has Fizzled Out.


Like i said this ultimate swell that was supposed to be coming has dialed down quite a bit, instead of it being 8-10foot flairing kegs and offshore winds , it is probably only going to get to 4-5foot with suss winds. I guess someone pissed off Huey. Oh well . we can live in hope.
It still looks like we could get some fun waves though and im still extremely amped to get some waves and get some pictures!!
The next swell that might hit will be the following weekend/fortnight.

Scoreboard: Dust Storm 0 Miichael +2 Andy +1

Today i awoke to a baby version of the dust storm we had on Wednesday, who would of thought after not having one for a very very long time we have 2 in one week, crazy huh , must be all that crazy global warming stuff....
I checked the swell via the net and there seemed to be a fun 2-3foot SE swell hitting the beach's.
I decided to raise my dust storm wave riding tally to 2 and headed out to Mid Narra to get a few peaky beachies. I also brought my little brother (andy) along for a boog, trying to convert him into a wave warrior likemyself.

The waves were super fun a frames and i managed to score a peak all to myself with my little brother, this is a rarity i guess because of all the weekend warriors that come out. I knew that it was going to get crowded very soon so me and my brother caught some fun waves for around 30minutes before calling it quits before the crowds got to big. (been getting lots of crowd less waves the last few days and didnt want to jinx it.)

I managed to get a few running waves that allowed some tight carves in the pocket, throwing buckets of spray, nothing more fun!!! There was also a few closing out walls that allowed some rolls and a very spastic invert where i nearly went head first into the bank hahaha.

My brother being only 11 is not as technically sound as alot of older boogers, but he only weighs about 30kg meaning he can do about 50000000billion spins on a wave without effort which is pretty funny. he got one wave that ran for about 40meters and he did so many spins for a joke he felt dizzy and had to go in. This was quite a highlight hahaha..

Peaky A Frame's To Get Me In The Mood For Tafe

So i started tafe at 9:30am and wasn't going to finish till 4:30pm. This is a long day for me... hahaha
So i decided to go for a quick surf before tafe to get me in the mood to sit there and listen all day.

I got down to the beach and was greeted with 2-3foot kegging of its nut, a frame beachies it was also offshore which was helping them open up more!. Like a posesed man i paddled out to get a few, there was a few surfers out but i could tell they were mega frustrated as they were super sucky and only about 2/10 waves were makeable on a booger let alone a surfboard. The booger is ultimate for these conditions with most waves going like this - paddel hard, scoop or drop into a drain pipe and hold your line into the barrel untill the shocky gets you, it closes out or you make it out. I Spent the next hour and a half just pulling into these open drain pipes, i got my fair share of floggings but thats what being a booger is all about making the most of the conditions, and the conditions were good! Overall it was a fun surf of pulling into closeout barrels with the occasional makeable one, was a good mood setter for the day of tafe that i had ahead of me.

There is always Room For One More

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Its a super fun community filled with great and knowledgeable bodyboarders, photographers, exbodyboarders, pro bodyboarders. its a great place and we would love you to join the community.
"There is always room for one more!"


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The Early.

The Night Before
  • 4foot s swell
  • low tide at 5:30 making the tide window open till about 9:30
  • light westerly winds.
  • All seems to be in place for some really decent waves.

I Got My Board, Wetty And Towel and left it by the front door the before so i am able to make a quick escape early morning to get some waves.

The Day

I woke up at 5:15am and made my way down to the a reef that i like to surf. To my utter disappointment the swell obviously hasn't arrived yet as i can see people driving away from the car park and not to it. still i am up this early i might just try my luck, there is a local SUP rider out and i decided he isnt going to snag many waves at the tide so i suite up and rock off.

To my suprise as i rock off a decent 3footer come's through and the sup rider calls me into it. i managed to power paddel out and to turn around and launch myself into this super fun backdoor barrel, i didnt make it and got pinched on the end section of the barrel, but got a fun porthole view with green and tourqoise coloured wave all around me.
This seems to be the start of the pulse and there is no one out! Yippie Kai Kay Mother Fucker!!!!
i spend the next hour just getting pit after pit with no one out, until finaly another person comes out, it was a booger mate of mine. So then me and him spent another hour pulling into backdoor pit's and having some fun dry reverse bowl's thrown at us just to keep us on our toes.
One particular wave that's in my memory was a reverse bowl that was really wide and sucked dry, i managed to hit the section a pull a massive air foward only to have the next section barrel and engulf me. I surfaced to have a grin the size of the joker's on my face. Good Times.
Over the next 3 hours the tide and crowd gradualy rose until it was time to call it quit's. By then i had got some extremly fun waves that alot of people would kill for so my stoke level's were running high and i was confident that it would stay like that untill my next surf. And the surf didnt even get to 4foot imagine if it did! Mind you ill sacrifice a foot of swell any day for less crowds.


A Picture from today of me about to launch out of an enticing ramp.
Picture By "Don - Realsurf.com"

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Bigest Dust Storm In 40 Year's To Hit Sydney.

So i awoke to blood red sky's and a layer of brown dirt on everything. Flicked on the new's to see what this "event" was - A Dust Storm - The Biggest Sydney has had in over 40years.
Of Course health officials recommended no one to do any physical exercise outdoors till it had cleared. i took this recommendation into consideration and decided to go for a novelty boog in the dust storm.
To my surprise the wind's were offshore and there was around 1-2foot of peaky swell i managed to get some fun novelty waves to say i had boogered during it. But there were numerous problems that were effecting the way i could boog:
  • Firstly visibility was about -100000/10 - so it was extremely hard to see the waves coming. At one point when i was paddling back out, without realizing i paddled over the peak and about 80meter's out at see, the only reason i was able to stop is because i was near the point and was able to see the rock's.
  • Secondly i was still trying to figure out which was harder, trying to breath under water or trying to breath in the dust storm. was quite a difficult situation because, i used to be an asthmatic and i am also allergic to dust. quite a combination to be surfing in a dust storm.
All in All it was a fun surf and i was very orange by the end of it, funny how dust and water can stick to your wetty even while surfing.

Here is a picture i took from the car park to show the visibility and freaky Colours.

View From DeeWhy Car Park:

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Fitness Surf

Lately Ive been super keen to go for a boog, no matter what the conditions are like or swell size under the belief that to become a better booger you have to learn to ride under any conditions.

Today was no different, I rolled out of bed knowing there would be a tiny to flat wave, but any wave is ripable.
I got down to curly to be greated with a small but relatively clean wave, managed to find myself on my own, it was hardly awe inspiring , but i had fun in what i was presented with - Small Runners that were carvable and able to throw off a few foward and rev spins here and there.

It was nothing worth missing tafe over so i got some waves and then headed off to my extremly early 8am tuesday start.

Pre Trip Ritual

As This Forecast is looking more and more like its going to stick and eventuate into something good i have decided a road trip is only appropriate.

So I Got Thinking

Does: Droping Everything your doing how ever important it may be, Geting The Car Ready, Organizing Food, Coughing Up Cash For Petrol, Trying To Find Place's To Sleep, Thinking Of Spots That May Be On, Getting Boards, Camera Gear And People To Come Along On A This Trip all together and ready in a short amount of time for the chance (which may not even eventaute and be a hoax - with wind changes and tide fluctuations) to ride a lump of moving liquid in the water, be inside the wave or soar to new heights from the lip even seem worth it at all.

"Noo Not Really....Meh"




WHO am i kiding of course its freaking worth it, its our life, we are boogers, its what we do, what we are programed to do, and what we will continue to do no matter what anyone else tell's us.

Monday, September 21, 2009

I Feel A Storm Brewing!

I Sit Here After Reading The Forecast For The Next 10day's And I must say, things are looking up! Even though there has been no decent wave and wind combo's of late , i can feel the booger inside of me trying to get out.
Thursday Looks To Be A Brief Southerly/SouthWesterly Pulse of Around 3-4foot. This however is the warm up for the potential waves that follow, in the new week, a solid pulse of South/South East Swell, just the way my favourite spot likes it.
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The Potential Forecast (Click To Open)
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But Knowing Our Luck the forecast will change about 50billion times between now and then and will probably fizzle out to a 1foot westerly swell with 200km p/hour easterly winds.

We Can Live In Hope - Come On Huey Give Us Some Loving.

Goose POV - All Credit To goose for these video's:

These video's made by NZ's Goose are by far the best POV video's available anywhere. They are so consistent and great to watch, i cant say how much stoke i get from watching these video's.

It gives a real sense to why we bodyboard and hunt down barrel's. Who wouldn't want to get a view like goose has given us.

Keep up the awesome work.

Here are some of his video samples:

Reef from goosesPOV on Vimeo.




Leash-cam from goosesPOV on Vimeo.



Recent helmet camera footage from goosesPOV on Vimeo.




A fun session from goosesPOV on Vimeo.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Not Many Wave's To Shoot Latley - So Happy Mind Wave Riding

"There Hasnt Been Many Wave's To Shoot Latley So I Thought I Post This One Up To Keep The Booger Cravings Running High." Shot By Me

- What section would you hit, would you go left or right? Could You Make The Barrel?-

©A Glorious Box Beach Wedge©

All Rights Reserved - Mike Foord Photography"

Saturday, September 19, 2009

So It Begin's

The Blogging Festivities Begin - Follow This For My Surfing Write Up's, Shenanigans And Surf Storys From The East Coast Of Australia!