On the inside

...Sitting at my desk looking like I am doing library work...but on the inside I am jumping for joy! Students keep coming up and asking me stuff, other staff just keep working as normal, classes come and go...no-one can see the glee!  Hee hee hee.

Willyweather tells me to expect the nor'easter tomorrow and Saturday, the swell 1.3m and dropping slightly.

WOOOHOOO!! Sounds like surfermum waves to me!

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to Cellito I go, with a board and some fun, and a surfermum... hi-ho-hi-ho!

SM

Another Excellent Weekend

What a brilliant weekend!
Once again the surf gods looked kindly upon the little Mobsters and let there be just enough surf for us - but not enough to attract many others. Ahh...thats what we like - Cellito to ourselves.

Look out for footage of the Grom who will turn up in a surfer movie very soon. She got so many great waves that she is considering surfing on the MumPro tour. :)

Here she is conquering one of her fears: a cute and cuddly possum. Yes, believe it or not, she will drop down 6 foot waves without a second thought but should a possum rub up against her leg she will jump out of her skin.


Excellent food, fabulous company, and perhaps a little more laughing than usual this time. Thanks Jules. Thank you Batgirl for the champagne, and thankyou to the lovely surfermums. You make excellent fun.
SM

Girls -please send any photos you would like on the blog. And don't forget to comment. And your dog. ;)

Greetings from the desk

Hey, hey! Have you seen the latest edition of Pacific Longboarder Magazine? Jules the amazing photographer who can spot a surfing superhero at 20 paces gets her name in print and Batgirl makes an appearance in all her bat glory. I think its worth posting her up here again with the beautiful Cellito water behind her, don't you?

I have been so busy lately, I have hardly had time to scratch, but I did duck down the beach last weekend when the swell was pumping in around the Headland and snap some surfing shots. I heard Batgirl was out there (in her civvies this time) and I'm thinking thats her paddling onto that huge wave in the main photo just beneath the spray coming off that wave on the right... Look carefully, can you see her? Hmmm




Check out this photo one of the MOB sent my way - a young grommie carving 'em up. See the MOB gene pool showing through...? Go get 'em N.J! (Photo by proud mum Bel)


Anyway, I also heard that Acturv is ripping at the moment on her new board - if anyone snaps some nice pics, send them my way. That girl is all set for the main photo.



End of semester is coming up (Yahoo! Yippee! I might get my life back) and I'm thinking I might need some MOB time. I'm going to reclaim the weekend! Seize the day! Get me some me time! After coaching netball and watching my two other children play soccer and doing all the weekend housework that is...hmmm. Anyway, the surfing will be fun and it will be MINE!




Lifes good. ;)



SM

Superhero spotted at Celito

I paddled out behind Batgirl in the surf on the weekend. It was so funny I nearly fell off my board and drowned laughing. There she was, calm as day stroking out to the break like it was the most natural thing in the world. Her black cape flapped out behind her and her bat ears were pricked alert. Her sleek black bodysuit shone with the slippery sheen of a surfer. Board riders parted as she paddled up between them like the Red Sea parted for Moses. Kids looked confused, dads were speechless...and I was having a hiccuping, laughing fit face down on my board, arms flailing uselessly. All you could hear for miles around was the crash of the ocean as it peaked nearby, and my hysterical giggling.


The MOB had a weekend gathering (two nights - count 'em!) of surfing and laughing unemcumbered by children and husbands. On these 'girls weekends' we could recharge our batteries with laughter alone (its been done before), but on this occasion Celito treated us with exceptional MOB conditions and we surfed all weekend long.

On friday ChampagneKate and I had 2 surfs!! She spent most of the time smacking the lip (literally) and carving up a storm on beautiful turquoise A-frames while I just watched in awe. Saturday we took a packed lunch and settled in for the long haul with 5 of our buddies. The Surferwitch scooped some gnarly waves, blue hair hangdoggin' in the breeze! By early afternoon we had worn down all the recreational surfers -they had packed it in and gone home! Only the hard core surfers were left in the water... We had it all to ourselves. ;)

Beebee, Franbaby, Cat, Lor and Jules were all out there pumping the big ones, skimming round the inside of barrels and flying off the lip before paddling over to the peak and doing it all again.

Aah, there ain't nothin like having a laugh with the girls. They will do anything for a giggle.