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New board

Buying anew board today,haven't bought myself a new board in a long time, last time I bought a board was about 6 years ago. I didn't plan on buying a new board, it's only because I lost a find on my other surfboard while surfing a spot in Avalon called off rocks, and as the name says it is a wave that breaks off the rocks and yes, I hit a rock, which snapped the fin of a board , just buy another fin you might say.Unfortunatly the fin system on that board is not in production , so I can't buy one anymore. So here we are at mi mates , Bevan,surfshop.I know Bevan from a long time ago, he was a succesfull male model, did quite well, stopped and opened a surf shop in Avalon called Boardscape.

He's putting the fins in my new board ( oh yeah, he gave me an awesome mates rate 200 bucks off the sale price ) He's sititng on the floor with his backsideto the door and we're having a bit of a laugh as someone just walked in and commented on his plumbers crack

Double concave, can't wait to feel how this board will go, was not keen on getting a new board, was quite happy with the board I had

This board was originally made for Joel Parkinson one of the top 16 pro surfers, it was to be used in Jack McKoy's film Free as a dog. But pro surfers end up with a lot of boards, and this one made it to Bev's shop. And that's why there is a signature on the board, now, I could just buy this board and sell it for quadrupple the price to some kid in Japan, because it has a signature on their of a pro surfer

no hard feelings Joel, but I want to go surfing, and not with your name scrawled all over my board

Clearly

some one has had waaaay too much free time on their hands

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Looking out towards the west i see this strange light

Right on the horizon there

It's not the sun , as the sun comes up in the east, as there are a lot of bushfires at the moment I'm thinking that maybe it's the glow from the bushfires that illuminating the clouds, see-ing it is still dark outside, I can't figure out why otherwise the clouds would be lit up like that, looks pretty spectacular

engine

View from out my window seat, oh yeah, love my window seats

First shot back in NSW

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Left Darwin at about a 30 min after midnight, there's about an hour and a half time difference between Sydney and Darwin, so must be around 5:30 in the morning now, landing in about 45 min or so, and there's the first rays of light

Termite hill

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Just going back a few dyas again here, to that time I went in the national park to check out the waterhole for a swim, and I passed by this termite ant hill that is about 5 meters high, check it out

conitnues

termite vid 2

can only record 30 sec at a time with the second camera on the phone cam , so here is Pt2

Sunset

Made it to sunset spot

Kenny is down there amongst the rocks, how dark is that cloud coming across

The last sunset shot from Darwin, don't know when I'llmake it up here again

Still drinking in that storm

These pics don't need many words

but they will be the silliest pics you'll see of me this year no doubt

Alcohol

Wooohooooo,so getting tossed around on the top deck

Kenny prefers to stay put

Great scenery

Kenny takes some shots as well, hey Kenny , how about you send me a few of those pics.
Once we got off the boat I was still feeling the rocking of the boat for about another 30 min

tossed

Kenny tries to take a photo, you can't tell in this photo, but, becuase we are on the top of the boat , we really are going from side to side, litterally getting tossed around