More on Maui

Hi surfermums. Turtles, snorkeling, volcanos, black sand beaches,
Good food, waterfalls, sunsets & beer, warm seas. .. But surf. .. Well it will have to be SUP...
So relaxing accept driving on the other side of the road. . Freaking me out! !!!
Only photos on phone are ones that aren't in the water so apologies for that but will endeavor to get some up on bog. . Here I am 3000m+ above sea level and a sunset. And another beer. .
Love to all,

have to prey Ohau has surf. ..

Day 1 Maui

Ok surfer mums have arrived after a long overnight flight with crying babies. ... Then a connecting flight to Maui.   So we have a hire car at the unit now we refuse to use the US term that starts with a C  and ends with an O.. have now finished Thai takeaway with a local beer. .see pic...More local beers tomorrow. . Oh saw first turtle at Napali Beach this arvo whilst washing of travel dust. . Now this surfer mum needs all her beauty sleep. .. nite nite...xo

Cheers!

Husband and I had a wedding anniversary today. So, to celebrate I went surfing with some husbands of surfermums!

Adam, Michael and I were having a blast out at the reef this morning - it was a hoot! Husband eventually came back to pick me up after surfing Bills Bank up at Seashells. And no, he didn't name the bank himself - he's been plugging away on that particular bank for weeks, and now its been discovered by Tony, Poddy and the crew up there.

Anyway, it was some sort of symmetry designed to make me appreciate what nice husbands the MOB has. Cheers fellas.

SM

P.S. Which two surfermums are going to India in July? Watch this space...

Cheap thrills

I was going to write something profound to you on Mother's Day, but since I had technological problems and have now missed the boat, I will tell you this: I became a  trainspotter yesterday.

Husband inspired the whole thing while we were in Taree waiting to pick up Molly. He heard a toot and declared "That's a steam train!" How the hell a Coogee boy knows a steam train from a snowmobile I do not know. Needles to say, he did a quick diversion to the railway crossing and whole family sat and waited for the train to pass. It gave us an almighty "whooo-woot!" as it went by - the sound of it reverberated through the air like when you stand up close to the speakers at an AC/DC concert (as if I ever went to see AC/DC!!) I ran out into the traffic and took this photo as it whizzed passed:

Us beach gals don't see much of this kinda thing so of course we hightailed it to Wingham train station to see it again! (Actually we were going there anyway, my parents live near the train station, and it was Mothers Day).

You can hear the damn thing coming a mile away so all the kids ran out to see it whiz by. Surferboy was meant to take an awesome front-on photo for me but only got this measly one as it approached:

Just when we were all settling down with a tummy full of Walnut Torte with Maple cream (!), Husband heard another toot! and we were off and running, desperate now to get the elusive head-on shot. In our panic, the dog ran out the front gate with us, and I had visions of him going under the steam train (which wouldn't look good for the head-on shot), so guess who had to catch him, then do a 100m sprint that woulda seen me make the Australian sprint team for the next Olympics? You guessed it, Yours Truly.

Steam and smoke was hissing out everywhere by the time I got there and, dang it! all I got was this:

But you shoulda seen all the people hanging out the windows with big dopey smiles on their faces like they having the time of their lives! Amazing, I know! Next year, thats me.

SM
Now for the important stuff. This is the Walnut Torte with Maple cream. Hope you had a great (surfer)mums day!

Drifters

 I saw the surf movie Drift today – a classic Aussie surf movie if ever there was one. And set in the 70’s too – even better! All those flares, all that long hair, and best of all those rough and ready blokey types who love a good punch up nearly as much as they love their mum. I liked it a lot. Nice to see home grown nostalgia in surfing, alongside a wholesome lead character who can double as Superman’s blonde brother (doncha love a super hero chin!)

I worried about the strong themes in this movie but Molly reassured me that it was just like the kids movie Surf’s Up. You know, with the penguins? There are some weird correlations there… the hippie guy, his female friend… Obviously only a small section of the population who have seen both movies will know what I mean. (Think about it you people!). But no-one dies in Surf’s Up.





That's Grommie catching a big one on the Point

 Still on the home grown theme, I noticed a couple of surfermums out at the Point today alongside (my) Surferboy and a boogie boarder. Thank you ladies. We all know it takes a village to raise a child. And to teach em to surf! Cheers.

Couldn't help but put this photo on the blog. It's every surfermums housework nightmare - whoops, wrong board! 

I think she's in the Iron Woman event.



SM

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