From Mullum to Blackie

Do you know about knitting graffiti?

It’s tagging in the same way that people “tag” trains and walls etc with spray paint, but these guys use knitting needles and brightly coloured wool. And it's just as illegal. Now, we are not talking about someone nailing a doily to a tree, we are talking about people speed crocheting it around the actual tree. Like someone knitting something onto you while you stand still. You can be arrested for doing this to a public object. This tree is at the entrance to the unique town of Mullumbimby on the beautiful north coast. These '"tags" are now part of police records. The CWA must be proud.

So Mullumbimby.

Spent the best part of the day on the road yesterday driving home only to sit and watch Surferboy have a late surf at Blackhead in the rain. He surfed into the night. I took photos, I waited in the car while the rain came down in sheets until I no longer had even the blurriest of vision, and then I had to flash my lights to get him out of the water in the end! I think he was grateful, he was smiling when he got out. Bless im.


Haven’t had a surf in a while (was a little bit big for me today, just quietly), so will be looking for some surfermums to come out with me when this swell settles down a little. There were plenty of surfers out at Blackie today and I noticed a couple of boards were broken in the heavy swell. Check out the unknown surfer below.

SM

P.S. Anyone wanna learn ukelele? I'm gonna do a one day course in June. Guaranteed to learn 6 songs
before the day is out. Tempting huh? 



Sensational Saturday

 If you thought Good Friday was good then Sensational Saturday was way better!

Mind you, I had to coax and cajole The Grommie to come and surf with the big guns at mid beach, Blackhead, but when she finally got a taste for it, she was flying!

Since I'm usually required to take pictures of Surferboy when he surfs, I requested that he take some of me on Sensational Saturday...so that he could fully appreciate the difficulty of working a digital camera to take surfing snaps.

I surfed my arse of that day! Taking off on monsters that just howled and snorted behind me as I rode off into the distance. Best day ever, biggest surf ever, biggest fun ever.

And what pictures did I get of it? One video of me falling off and then listening to Husband and son argue about whether they captured video footage of my best wave ever, and whose fault it was if they didn't (all while filming their feet and the sand!)

Oh yeah...and this great photo of The Grommie.

Typical.

SM