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Kid's turn

When's school finished, we picked up the kids form school and on this hot day took them straight to the beach
little balancing lessons
zero waves
so we go for a paddle out to sea

even the dogs have it hot today and enjoy dropping their bellies down into the cool ocean
And seems like half of Avalon is down here now

Next day, even smaller still

Very hot day today, been a good boy all morning, working on the computer, but come 1 o'clock it was just too hot, and no one at the beach , had the beach to ourselves. That's because it is Melbourne cup day, so a lot of people are at the pub or melbourne cup luncheons ( in 37 degree heat, not me, I'm swimming )
But look at that photo, not a ripple, flat flat flat
so good day for a snorkel
and a float
a few more people look like they are ditching the idea of the "race that stops the nation " and have a swim instead
I'm off looking for fins that would have come of boards from surfing off rocks
Jacs has never been to jump rock, which is at northern headland of Avalon beach, so after an hour of swimming in the water I take her there
it's a good 10-15 min walk, but with this heat , and then all the flies that are blown in with hot wind
nice rock formations

spot the jac

I asked Jacs to join me for a jump, but someone had to take the photo
one , two
three

I did not feel like walking all the way back on the hot rocks, so that's me swimming back
stopping on a rock I just swam over to make sure I don't swim too close again ( well ,there was a shark attack at this very spot this year )
made it
and the crowd goes wild and has uncontrollable urge to do a handstand
nice to be able to just float, and then to think people pay money to go on a holiday just to be able to this, and for us it's just up the road from home, how lucky are we

Australian Surf Movie Festival or ASMF

My friend Tim Bonython , has his surf movie festival on again this year at the Palm Berach RSL club. But first to Palm Beach for dinner, and what beautiful light
Nothing beats a good fish & Chips
Waiting for our meal at the Palmy fish & chips shop
After dinner, off to the RSL for Tim's surf movie night, here he is setting up the projector, room slowly filling up

Before the night gets under way, Tim has a brief chat about what he is about to show us tonight
packed room


And then we are treated to a little acoustic session by Nick Saxon from Newcastle, and he's not bad, check the grommets
Nick did another session during intermission as well
before the big waves, lucky door prizes, and lucky us, Belle won a little goodie bag, and now India wins apair of sunglasses, lucky
The deal was though , who ever had the lucky ticket, to get the sunnies , they had to model them on stage
cute, crowd loved it of course
now for the reason we are here. . . .waves....big waves
monsters
and hollow
grommets frothing at the front there I'm sure
now check this beast of a wave out. It's an outer break called Shipsterns ( shipwreck ) in Tasmania, so cold water, and solid waves, but this sequence is just hairy scary
how small is he compared the beast frothing behind him
but wait, check this little ( big ) step building up in his path
n o  w a y  !  !
total silence in the room, as the crowd is gobsmacked
Airborn ! This would have to be up there with someof the sickest, heaviest wave Tim has ever got on footage
awesome. Thanks Tim for another awesome night of entertainment. And all you surfers out there, what am I saying, you don't even have to be a surfer to appreciate this footage, all of you out there, do yourself a favour and check out Tim's movie.
Here's a list of Venue's
Byron Bay The Great Northern Hotel | Wed 4th Nov 8pm
Milton/Ulludulla Theatre | Sat 14th Nov 8pm
Newcastle View Factory | Sat 28th Nov 8pm 
QLD
Coolangatta Sands | Thurs 5th Nov - 8pm
Kirra Surf Stock Festival - Currumbin | Sat 7th Nov 7pm
VIC
The Astor Cinema | Tues 10th Nov 8pm
The Espy | Wed 11th Nov 8pm | 18‘yrs ONLY
The Espy | Thurs 12st Nov 8pm | 18‘yrs ONLY
SA
Streaky Bay Hotel | Thurs 19th Nov 7.30pm
Semaphore Odeon Star Cinema | 20th Nov 8pm
Adelaide Mercury Cinema| Sat 21st Nov 6pm & 8pm
But to be sure , check Tim's site just check the site for dates and also for the trailer, it will have you wanting more

Summer has come early

next day, and more people on the beach, I take Jacs and the kids to the beach
Yesterday I was surprised at how warm the water was already , 19 degrees , so knew the kids would get out there and amongst it




some one always has to get buried

Surf time

Surf's not exactly up, but just had to get out there and get wet. First surf in over 2 months, first week in Sydney I either did not have the time to go surf, or there just wasn't any
It's a small 2 foot on the sets.but I was the only one out, so bit of fun
no one else around
Had to take out the mal though, as it was pretty fat

Just found a pic of me

It was taken back in August at Jayson Brunsdon shop opening and I found on this Australian site called Kluster. Aaaah, it's when my G10 was still working

Wish Look Book

One thing I don't like when I arrive somewhere is to be sitting around waiting for the next job come in. So after a good day's rest and catching up on Australian time ( as opposed to northern hemisphere time ) I am glad to be back at the Wish studio to shoot a lookbook with Todd and Jay. And Brazillian Barbara Di Creddo is our model du jour
And Barbara is addicted to those banana lollies ( so am I - Jacqui just happens to have a bag inthe kitchen at home, I don't think she realizes I nearly ate the whole bag )
We are see-ing those shoulders everywhere, I'm only showing you one of the pics from today's lookbook, as this is still not ready to go out yet, this is one of the more casual outfits. There were some nice pieces in this collection I would have liked to take home for Jacs
Hair change
love a girl that pulls a face

touch up after lunch
me :-)

Everyone loves my Goorin hat.

London > Singapore

Waouw, finally up in the air again
I arrived at Heathrow, just as the sun was getting up, and now, leaving heathrow, just as the sun issetting again already
cut a long story short, several cancelled boarding calls, to thgen finally being told 9 after one hour delau ) that the plane has a problem with the hydraulics for the landing gear, and will take about 4 hours. Good thing I had access to the lounge, but was so tired after late night last night courtesy of RA, and funny how come early afternoon, all the facebook updates, were things like "headache" "it hurts" "rocks in my head " Well at least you got to sleep, hehehe, I been in a lounge for over 8 hours, read every paper, so now have started drinking again, Southern Comfort and Dry :-)
Hopefully I won't get a repeat of this, 8 hour plus stay at an airport. But at least I have my window seat on the A380 ( which has now been renamed the A360 but the passengers- because it does a 360 back to the terminal )
And it was such a nice day as well, where I could have taken lots of photos on my way to Singapore, we were due to arrive in Singapore in the morning, 8 ish, and then onto to Sydney for a 8pm arrival, but with this delay, we will be well past the Sydney curfew, Sydney airport is closed after midnight and before 6am, simply for the noise. So we missed that, so scared we will be spending some time at Singapore airport as well

leaving England
channel
Cap Gris Nez, with Boulogne Sur Mer beyond it
cloud cover over france
And that's all folks, till we get to Asia, good night

RA after party at ScheldApen

Anna, in that great outfit , and her sister ( thanks for a great party btw Anna )
P &  B
party peeeeeople

Etienne
not only did Andrea set up a love tent in the backyard of the party venue, but there is also this amazing tree house in thebackyard ( oh, and Andrea did not have much luck with his love tent )
Irina
Kasia
Andrea, trying to get people to come check out his love tent ?
Mic Eaton, aka material boy
Fellow Vandevelde, Karolyn.
I'm sure lots more fun things happend at the party, but I have to be at the airport in 3 hours, so me go home now, bye bye

Outfit change at Bruno's

Instead of jumping on the bus, the Pholoso and Kasia wanted an outfit change, so we walk back to his place
and not partying in those boots


a few songs and we should be ready to go
or not :-)
girls will be girls
Jacqui is asking me, who;s that spunk
Thanks Lutz btw for my new jacket, and Bruno for these awesome sunnies ( keeping )
going down, party time