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Maldives

ok, so I know have 6 days of footage of photos from our surfing trip to the Maldives.
But with no real internet on the boat and instead having to use the limited bandwidth to upload photos for Tommy Hilfiger, it did not leave me with much time to keep this blog updated ( ooops, sorry )

And now it is Paris men's fashion week, finished Milan already.
So my dear friends, I will put Maldives onhold for a second as there are a lot of you fashion fiends out there keen for some boys in clothes, as opposed to pics of me surfing in the Maldives

but I just can't resist putting this pic up Chris Page from MAgic Seaweed took of me surfing, just look at that backdrop !!
Thanks Jonathan for the loan of the fins by the way
:-)

 

Tommy Hilfiger SurfShack Gone Surfing

So who are these people, why am I in Portugal and why at such a nice hotel Well, these folks, have won a competition from Tommy Hilfiger to go on a surf trip to the Maldives, yep, you heard right, the Maldives. So we meet in Portugal so they can have a surf lesson, fun times we'll be keeping you updated via the Tommy Hilfiger Instagram
The lucky crew after their first surf session

Cloudbreak again for another session, and seasnake as an extra guest

went to surf cloudbreak again ( will post a video soon, once I get around to editing it )but this time just with Kenny, no kids and no girls
And the great thing was there was no crowds like lasttime when there was about 50 guys out. Me, Kenny and 3 hawaiians Kenny went back to the boat for a rest while I surfed on, and we had an extra guest on board, a poisonous seasnake While I was out in the water still, I could see some sort of commotion going on, Kenny standing on the seat and getting a broom ( why there was a broom on this small boat beats me ) and scopping it up to get it overboard again back in its natural habitat the look on one contented man, his first surf out at Cloudbreak and heading back to the mainland later that night, Kita gets her hands on the camera and takes some photos when we are out at Tomlu's for dinner

Another Day in Paradise, surfing Cloudbreak !

how our day starts in Fiji, breakfast, overlooking the coral reef at Yanuca Fast forward 50min car drive and 30 min boat ride, and voila, Cloudbreak in the middle of the ocean, and great waves on offer today.
peeling lefts, frothing, I want to go back again already hehehe view from the boat and we are not the only ones out here after what seems like only 20 min but was probably an hour and 20 min, I get picked up by India on the jet ski that's me behind India on my board. Surfing out here is awesome, epic, but for the kids, must be quite boring just bobbing up and down in a small boat. So time to go explore and do some snorkelling straight into it as is Jacqui the gang of four, and no one else around except the captain on the boat

legs

whazup





my girl There is nothing better than being with your girl when she's happy, smiling and laughing :-) and doesn't hurt if she's looking hot as well hehehe :-) love how the water, like space, just dissappears into darkness/nothingness love this photo of Jacqui, adjusting her goggles view from the water of the surf boat India out front If I did not tell you this was out in the ocean, you would think, looking at the colour, that it was in a swimming pool, stunning colour



one day, start saving, we will stay on this Island, so no need to commute from the mainland for a surf Namotu Island, next to Tavarua Island

Surf Sessions at Bilgola Beach

Had some footage on go pro needing to be edited and published, so here's a 2 min clip of 2 sessions at Bilgola beach, one in Jan 2013 and then March. I don't surf that often at Bilgola, but the bank has been fun out there.

This is what I did in the afternoon before the end of twentytwelve

No posts for a while, I know, been busy with house things and spending days like this at the beach.
This one I just put up as it is about 4-5 in the afternoon on New Years Eve.
:-)

 

After surfing Cloudbreak a swim with the Dolphins, Amazing !!

So we just surfed Cloudbreak, had a snorkel at Namotu, and then just as we starting heading back to the mainland we spot a pod of Dolphins. At first I jump in the water to try and get some footage swimming with them, but they scattered away, although you can see one dive deep as I jump in. But the most amazing part of that was hearing the Dolphins when I played the video, as I did not hear them while I was under water, but the video did ! Amazing

Sydney > Nadi ( Fiji )

Off to Fiji we go and loving this view of Kuringai and the Hawksbury river opening out to the ocean, with the tip of Barrenjoey Great shot of the Northern Beaches If only I could hover here for a few minutes and pull out my zoom lens :-) I'd be getting shots of Avalon like this, only sharper

great with the central coast at the top, fading out as it gets to Newcastle, looks a lot closer this way last shot of Australia :-) was hoping to get some amazing cloud photos like I did when we flew to Fiji in April 2011 but judging by the dirty window, not so sure I will succeed plus the glass used on the airbus is different from the glass on Boeing planes, so get this wonky effect











this is more like it












love love, one for the printer :-)




might have to print this one for Kenny's living room


or this



look at the colour of that water !! Getting close now :-) and yes, there's the big reef, I recognise that reef straight away been to those reefs a couple of times now, and would love to be this another trip of many more :-) Bula ! so first up, we are looking at the back of in famous cloud break, with Tavarua Island and then Namoto and on outer left is the right hander at Wilkes passage getting amped, hoping to get out there in a few days

left looking good today and planning on getting some snorkel time in as well ( and eat me some mud crab at Tom Lu's ) main land, and what's that, zoom in zoom in more nice, Bure's on the water, would love to check that out, not quite Tahiti but close would be a nice place to stay maybe, looks a little barren and needs a few more trees, but hey, it's closer to Cloudbreak :-) mainland about to land, Bula

Uge took a shot this morning that perfectly illustrates why I could not live at Bondi

Crazy

Back in Sydney, straight out on the board, so I made a quick movie of it for a laugh