Watch this space!

There are some recipes on the way.

Now, don't get too excited too quickly as its only in the first stage of development...lets see if these surfermums can get their favourite recipes up on the blog. (My money is on Annie to post the first one ;)

Bel and Grommie have been cooking up the idea (get it?) of putting our favourite recipes out for the other surfermums to share. Surfermum gatherings are cause for envy and desire all over the region. When we get together we produce the most fabulous food - way better than any restaurant! Enough to make our husbands wish they could come on our surfermum weekends away. Now, that's sayin something, huh?

Cheese and baguettes

Did a recky at the Zuider Zee for you girls... but since it's inside the dijk, there's only some blasting onshore winds creating windchop.

I really love Amsterdam - the canals, the cheese, the trams,the conveniently English speaking people. And everyone rides a bike so it's peaceful and clean.

Paris by contrast is quite gritty, although the sun was out for our visit so it was lovely. We all went to the top of the Eiffel Tower...I'm sure you are very proud of me as it was very high and very scary.

Check out this guy and his ball skills at the top of a pole at the Sacre Cour (the beautiful Sacred Heart church at the top of a hill overlooking paris).

Amsterdam

Walking the alleys of Amsterdam with my cousin Cindy and her husband Richard near the coffee shops and red light district. Tried to ignore the wisps of marajuhana smoke as we walked along.

Family surf at The Pass

Greetings from Byron
After a week of 1 ft kiddie waves I felt I should finally get wet .
Swell picked up to  3-4ft  beautiful peeling waves . Dodging between the tall , blonde and beautiful , the seasoned Byron locals  and the holiday makers I pulled off long rides of 300 m from the Pass . Feeling very proud of myself , ready to get back into it at diamond ! Surrounded by steamers I decided to brave the winter water and surf in my bikini . Lasted st least an hour til a pretty young thing asked me if I was cold .... Well I was  warm until she mentioned it .- then quickly began to realize it was winter and that's why we wear steamers ... Oh well , the adrenalin worked for quite a decent surf till temperature forced me out ... I hear it's snowing at Barrington.... Awesome weather here . We have booked again for 2nd week of next July holidays - Clarkes beach caravan park - come join us !
Ps photo of my biggest wave  won't upload - Damn ....

Cathy

Whale spotting off Blackhead beach

I couldn't let a July go by without uploading a whale photo... This one was spotted from our loungeroom waving his tail in the sun (trying clicking the photo to get a larger view - I don't have telescopic lens!).

The Grom and I are heading for Diamond this morning, any MOBsters keen..?
SM

MOB Museum

Well girls looks like we have our own museum now......xx

You have to win it to ring it!

I'm back.
Had to go off line for a week or so to deal with some technical issues. The moral to that story is don't buy Dick Smith SD cards - they are lousy quality and prone to exploding. Wish I knew that earlier. As it turns out my photos were not all retrieveable, but there are some here to help you get the feel of the Bells Beach Rip Curl Pro.

This is taken from the rock platform on low tide. It gives you an idea of how close you are and how big and beautiful the waves were.

 This is the view from the beach but much later when the tide and the beach was fuller. This is a women's heat - Carissa Moore is surfing. She went on to win the event a couple of days later.

The view from the beach early in the morning, before the thousands arrived and took up every available grain of sand...

And, you know I love a good celebrity photo - so here are the few that we got before it became too congested and the security guards whisked the surfers off to safety.

Adriano De Souza posing with some idiot for my photo.

Miguel Pupo (yes a grown man, Edie is on the uphill!)

Is that a young Nick Johnson..? No, its John John Florence

Kelly wasn't surfing that day because he qualified the day before to go straight through to the next round. He was sorry we couldn't meet up but I said that was fine because I know what a busy life he leads. Anyway, Steph sends her love.

SM

Hmmm, have you noticed something different round here?