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hey fellas, i'm visiting friends in the sydney (stanwell park and also the northern beaches area) and on the mid north coast (around forster i think) in early jan what's the chance of there being any waves... worth bringing a board along?

nice pics, as always. i like the distortion on the bottom shot. merry xmas everyone

hey black mountain, any chance you've got some pics of your bag? how well does the camera block fit inside the bag, and how accessible is it? i was checking out the sequence today and thought it was a big big for what i need. the 26L mission (camera block included) looks like it might be better for me, but wanted to see what you think of the pro..?

you could kill your doppelganger. die evil twin, die!

sweet mantas! should be a good opportunity to compare a quad set-up with a thruster in similar conditions and try to understand how they actually work. i've only ridden a few quads. found them fast and maybe a bit loose. sort of like a modern twin. would love to have a zippy responsive quad for small down the line waves. like a 3ft sand point or something..

that looks terrible...

nh, didn't get any vid mantas. a few guests had some nice tubes of mine on their video cameras but i never got round to nabbing it off them. no big deal as it wasn't all time footage. i got gazillions of pics. that'll do. since we've been back we've been hooking into all the western food that we've missed. lots of ham, cheese, nice crisp beers and wine. mmmm, wine. the surf is flat. not even bothering about it. starting to do a bit of training now for japan. hopefully it starts puking on honshu this week

i second that. i'm a junkie and i need my fix

went for a swim at cott today. i thought the water was freezing. everyone else thought it was hot... the air is different here - it's a lot drier than indonesia. the heat will have a different feel to it too. i'll be working and sweating on the weekend

and one last pic...

phew... just got back to oz a few days ago. bit of a mission gettin home, but it's nice being back in oz for the summer. this year we spent pretty much 9 months straight on the island. we only left the island twice - once for 2 nights to sort things out with the immigration department, and once for a 12 day holiday in java. so after living on a remote tropical island all year, it's a bit weird being back in the first world. things are clean. and orderly. and most bizarrely, people seem to bustle around with a purpose, rather than just lounge around like i'm used to. i know australia has a mu

give me a week... am busy with the last few days of guests, then packing up, tidying up and a shedload of travel

off season indo... winds in this part are strong and we are getting a bit of rain, but if a swell hits you'll be surfing classy waves by yourself. or it could go flat for 3 weeks and you'll be going crazy with boredom. it's a bit like that i leave the islands on sunday and the aves will be good til then. the week after that looks pretty dismal, so we got lucky with this last swell

that pic at the top of the page is unreal!

hey crew sorry, been a bit slow with the updates lately. we're now into december and things have slowed right down. mostly getting fun waves, and the best bit is there's pretty much no one around at the moment, so we're always surfing by ourselvs. very nice. a guest caught a small mackeral last night and we all ate that for lunch today. damn, that is a tasty fresh fish. anyway, a stonking swell marched in yesterday and we surfed some pretty chunky stuff. got a couple of big tubes (i was freaking as i pulled in to em) and bailed under a couple of legit 8ft sets. i'll post some photos of t

where do you find these threads...?

that is siiiiiick! i'm just curious - how can it be hokkaido's most famous pilow line - is it in heaps of vids/mags?

sweet pics MB! the heli looks awesome

got another 10 days here. still good waves, just at the fun spots. got so many tubes yesterday it was ridiculous and there's very very few people around. wet season is well and truly here. lots of ran and wind, but we are still getting calm conditions andsunny skies about 50% of the time. there is a tasty swell hitting just before we leave,so hopinh to score something proper epic (like rifles) with no one around. fingers crossed you boys getting waves?

the pics are all super rad and i don't care either way, i just thought it curious that more ski pics made the final cut is all. no biggie

Originally Posted By: Mamabear Isn't the saying "Bro's before Ho's"...? nice one MB! it's hilarious hearing something like that from you..

voted. but the awesomeness of the pics made it hard to choose. only one snowboarder made the cut...?

yeah i pretty much never wear booties. it's fine except for when you're in trouble. then you're like "my kingdom for some boots!" while you get torn apart on the reef

yeah, i've never seen it before either. i try not to wear booties cos i don't like em, but i seriously doubt i would ever surf in sandshoes

photo time.... things have definitely quietened down here. waves are smaller and less people around. it all feels very laidback and a nice change from rushing around looking for the biggest/heaviest/whateverest waves we can get. now we're just kicking back and happy to be sharing fun waves with just a few people out. not many pics to share, but here's a couple from the last group of guests. one of the bigger sessions we had. check the old school dunlop volleys in the bottom pic