Surfing is a Trip

Farewell old friend.

Small clean day on Martin Luther King day. I took out the 9' T&C that I have hanging in the house. Perfect little longboard day. Water temp about 58deg. Thanks to Debbie and V for taking pics.

I found this 1973 video on YouTube.

I have the old Men of Steel videos from us surfing in Navarre in the 1980's. I'll finish the edits some day and post it.

Check out the old Colonel's Point footage.

[Below is the story of my cousin Rob who recently returned from Witches Rock Surf Camp in Costa Rica. He stayed at the Four Seasons a couple of nights before he left for WRSC.]

Here's the gulf (Golfo de Papagayo) in Costa Rica, which I swam
across alone (from the Four Seasons resort to the Costa Blanco Del
Pacifico resort) on the evening of Jan 4th, 2008. Finished in
slightly less than 2hrs, just after dark. A succussful, yet, not very
well planned adventure on my part. Curt, the friend I was traveling
with, was the only one who knew I was going to try it. I ran into
some currents, white capping waves and jelly fish. Landed after dark
with no money and without really knowing what was on this side of
the Gulf. It turned out to be a resort and the general manager bought
me beers at the bar and introduced me to his friends as a
"hero" (which I thought was funny and definitely undeserved). This
all made for an nice light moment though, especially out of the
totally unexpected and unknown (considering it was dark and all I had
with me was the board shorts and googles I arrived with). The manager
said he'd never known of anybody else to swim across. The whole thing
ended up costing me $110 bucks. Had to take a $60, 45minute, cab ride
back. Plus, Curt, concerned for my welfare, called out a rescue
party (Which I never saw, $50) when the sun sun began to set (ended
up as a "misc" charge on my hotel bill). Sometimes you just gotta go
for it I guess.

surfed head high today at home break kingscliff...did i mention female world champ steph gilmore is from kingscliff? we now have both mens/womens world champs here on the gold coast!!! hope all had a happy new year and all families are well. Bought a new camera and should be able to start to get some representative pics of the area up soon.

cheers matt