Only partly MSU

Did you hear about ourkate (champagnekate to you) surfing the surfboard of that legendary rugby league legend? What's his name..? Boof? No. Chief! Thats it!

Yep, she made friends with his son up at Crescent Head who asked for a few tips since she looked like she knew what he was doing. One thing led to another, they exchanged boards and before she knew it she was showing Chief jnr how to do it! She was riding Chief's plank!

And as these things happen, its very hard to organise a photo when you are riding Chief's big one.

So I have organised it for her. This is what I think it looked like (click it!):

(Malik Joyeux @http://photoblog.haumaru.com/index.php?showimage=72)


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PS. Feel free to MSU ("make shit up", thanks Ben) as I have done. I would love to see any of your thoughts/images etc on this very blog. You have the power. Use it.
:)

Welcome to the Festive Season

What a great way to ease the Christmas season in. Once again the MOB delivered a extravaganza of culinary delights that satisfied our highly refined tastes and also the bellies of those gorgeous boofy blokes! ;) Thanks to everyone, I love getting this crowd together!

Had a surf with The Grom this morning - always fun and the water was gorgeous. Hopefully she had a little snooze this arvo... that girl goes hard don't she? Surfin till she's weary to the bone. Thats the kind of dedication you get from a grommet.

I have some miscellaneous leftovers at my house. Are you missing a pair of square prescription sunnies?

See you soon.
SM

The icecream has been made.

I will try not to eat it all... promise.

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Some fun waves

I took off over Champagnekate's left shoulder this morning and hooted and hollered as we both caught the wave of the day! It was the perfect surf - the waves were the big friendly kind that flip you up onto your board when you wanna geddup. You know what I mean? We hardly had to try... just a few strokes and then wait for the flipyouup. :) Ya godda try it. Second corner.

If someone hadda taken a photo of us it mighta looked like this but bigger and without the wind:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/81619620@N00/312233089

Gustavo Verissimo took this one in Portugal... it was the best I could do on short notice.
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Champagnekate Heaven!

Old Bar Combi Festival - where too many combis are barely enough!
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Where were you?

I musta looked at that lookout 50 times today. First was with coffee. That was when Husband decided he and Surferboy needed to go out and put their mark on those Red Head waves. As soon as they hit the surf, 6 guys paddled out... making it quite the crowd.

That's what you get on a long weekend on the Mid North Coast I guess. Needless to say, I bided my time. I looked. I looked again, but still there were way too many men carving and sliding up and down some very magic waves. Good on them, I thought. Too big for me.

Too gnarly.

Too steep.

But I thought I'd give it a shot anyway!

Mind you, once the nor'wester whipped up and everyone else left to go and watch the AFL grandfinal I could hardly sit on my arse and do nothing..!

I paddled out downstream from my son and a couple of locals and helped myself to some screamers. (Later, Surferboy was heard to say - "First I knew she was out there was when she took off on that almighty righthander..." Husband will probabaly complain that I embelished that quote - but I only added one word...almighty,ok?!)

Anyway, you get the gist. Red Head. All day. Loving it.

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All in a day's surf

I'll tell you something but you have to keep it quiet, ok? Don't tell anyone but... Red Head is roolly good at the moment.

Ok, it might not be classic good but if it were classic good the whole of Hallidays Point would be there!

As it was The Grommie, Franbaby, champagnekate, and yours truly had a long and pleasant spell in the surf this morning. It was a perfect morning with nothing to do but surf... it must be holiday time! Like summer it was - but better cause the nor'easter didn't arrive!

Plenty of tourists arrived though... But at least they had the decency and respect to let the MOB have the best of it before they entered the water. They lined up sitting on the shore - a dozen or so of them, with their boards in their laps getting all sunburned and squinty until the MOB were completely and finally spent. Even The Grommie eventually got out! Then the tourists respectfully asked permission to go out and catch a few waves, and promised they wouldn't tell anyone about it. The MOB conferred, agreed that this would be acceptable and champagnekate gave them her blessing. Generous, huh?

I think that's how it went.

Remember? Sshhh...
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