blowhole madness

so we woke up to howling winds and thundering rain, all i wanted to do was turn over and go back to sleep. opted not too and surprisingly enough, my tiredness soon turned into ampedness to explore our current backyard coastline.

Got down to the beach and saw the wind was strong but not too bad! We saw some potential and we saw 2 sick as blowholes! These things are mad and are bloody loud!

We also splashed at the local beach called South Bombo - was super fun.

Here's some shots:

the main Kiama blowhole

me at another blowhole a few bays down

si showing his stuff

The past few days...

So we've moved on from the infamous Mark-up River, feeling tired, hurt, bummed and broke!

We moved onto greener pastures - the east coast. After a stuff load of money and about a day of travelling we have reached the cosy Plett-like town called, Kiama. Its situated about an hour and a half drive south of Sydney and if you, like Si and myself, opt for travelling by train, 8 hours is the length it takes. We did do a bit of a touristy thing which included many arb trip cats, plenty asian school kids speaking in full Ozzy tongue, many friendly people, a few famous places and one over friendly local explaining in depth, with the use of props (my smelly Pep shoes), those famous places - over and over again.

Oh, and one stuff off grumpy old man!

The photos below are some of the experiences

Airport boredom

Train waiting

Si taking it all in

If only tides and swell was on our side

You know how it is

Kiama evening

The chasrts are looking promising this week, hopefully we'll be able to get some waves.

We will keep you all updated

box pilgrimage

So after a week of fart arsing around we decided to hike down to the main beach and check out "The Box". We got a lift which took us straight to the car park and we were greated with less than ideal conditions. As we were comtemplating going in we saw 2 bombs come through and then our mind was made up.

The wave was really wedgey with loads of barrels and plenty of ramps. We all had our fair share of barrels with Jared, as per usual, flying above the rest with the ramps that were plenty.

The last wave i got absolutely destroyed me and after getting undressed we were greated with this:

The hike home after a surf that made our lazy week way worthwhile..

Hopefully we can get Box again but with better conditions

Skatepark hooligans

We were horribley bored so we found a cement skate park, and footskated the hell out of it!

...under the cover of darkness of course...

Ozzie kid hooligans

Pik with the bat wing

Jerry going old school with the Canonbaaaaaall

...the days adventure tires us so...

After a Hella mission


We decided to go surf this morning....normal for us....except we had about a 10km walk, cos NO we dont have a car...so cool, lets do this, we'l hike despite our warnings from the locals that people dont get picked up hiking, we thought we'd press on and start walking....20mins of nothing, so we started walking back, but stil hiching, then someone stopped to pick us up, PERFECT! we got to the beach, had a bit of warm water fun, then....THEN....hiked back........AN HOUR OF HIKING, and a motherless far distance still to go later, a kind elderly coupled decided to pick us up....tooo stoked! that walk = not cool!!

On the plus side, we did do some insanely budget shopping at the locals Coles store and scored some delicious deals to whet out taste buds and keep us going on those loooooong walks, cuase that definitly wasnt the last time..especially with this week coming ;)

jared.rides.well.yes

Pik cutting the early morning butter

Jerry-bag, again, opting for the warm water flip

we're down under

herewith lies our experiences over the past couple of days

airport trolley racing

an ozzy ninja

demon roo

scoping the coast line

gas bay - the first place we surfed

the tourist thing

We'll get some wave photos soon - dont get your knickers in a knot

Been going down...

Whats been going down???

• K53 driving- PASS

• MONDAY MISSIONS - R13 500

• 3 DAYS - WA

You probably wandering why so much for a Monday mission?? Well, that's the price it costs to replace a gear box on my car. Good thing I'm leaving in a couple days - one less thing to worry about.

I also thought I'd give you a taste of what K53 driving is like:
Approaching robot to turn left:
foot off accelerator, rear-view-mirror, left hand blind spot, indicate left. Rear-view-mirror, break slowly. ten metres before stopping, put clutch in. Come to a complete stop. Handbrake up, put car in neutral, feet off the pedals. Wait for the other traffic lights crossing your path to go orange. When orange-put clutch in and select first gear. Get clutch control without using the accelerator. When robot is green-put down the handbrake, check rear-view-mirror, check the traffic on the right if it is safe to go through the robot. Check your left hand blind spot then steer. Dont cross ur hands and don't change gears until you have turned the corner completely....Times that by 20 mins and then you should have your drivers.

On a lighter note I dug into my old photo archives-not too deep and found to barel shots at two different right hand wedges. Both shot by Damon Crawford. enjoy.

warmer water

not so warm

Check out more of Damon's pics with the following link