Sunset, Diamond Head The last 10 days of my trip have been spent on Oahu with my friend, Steph. I met Steph through a mutual friend in Bali at the very beginning of my trip and spent the fir...
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My friend Brad and I headed out to Ocean Beach for a late afternoon surf while I was in San Francisco. Surfing this part of the world takes the sport to a whole other level. Hoodies, gloves,...
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Las Flores, El Salvador, day 3 After surfing Las Flores and Punta Manga receiving coaching and advice from Holly, I asked her for one thing that I could work on over the next 6 months that w...
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Las Flores, El Salvador, day 1 My girlfriend and I are spending the week at a surf coaching clinic with Holly Beck. Its day 3 and already we've clocked up around 12 hours in the water. The c...
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So with a really heavy heart, I caught a flight from LAX to San Salvador for the final five weeks of my journey. I really want to be flying home but I've already made some commitments in Centra...
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I was lucky enough to surf with some locals while transiting through Los Angeles. Considering the size of that place, having access to a car and some new friends is necessary to get around. Publi...
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Pavones, Costa Rica Niall and I hired a car and drove to Pavones, Costa Rica to ride the second longest left in the world. We timed it on the back of a large swell coming through for the wee...
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Fun peaks at Playa Santa Teresas After five weeks of intense travel driving a motorbike through Java and staying at a shag shack in La Libertad, I was excited to catch up with my friend Nial...
http://this-surfing-life.blogspot.com/2012/08/surfing-with-las-chicas-at-santa-teresa.html
Punta Roca, El Salvador. I flew three days from Bali through Malaysia, the United States and into San Salvador, El Salvador overnighting in Kuala Lumper and Los Angeles. My friend James had ...
http://this-surfing-life.blogspot.com/2012/07/avoiding-mama-roca-at-punta-roca-el.html
An empty line up, Kuta Reef, Bali I said good bye to Bali on a swell of 6 – 8 foot sharing Kuta Reef with 70 of my nearest and dearest. Sometimes you can jag that wave with 4 or 5 others i...
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Canngu, Bali I have been practising yoga on and off for the last 15 years. I'm not much of a church goer or overly spiritual but I do believe in a higher power of some sort. Yoga, I find, co...
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I brought a motorbike. My girlfriend Ang and I have plans to ride from West Timor back to Bali stopping at surf breaks and checking out the different islands to the east of Bali. Foreigners...
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I've been surfing Bingin on the Bukit Peninsula for the weekend. I met these awesome girls Alexa, Chrissie, Kathleen and Roxie whilst surfing Nusa Lembongan last week and arranged to meet up ...
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So I've quit my job, saved a bucket of money, sorted my mortgage, packed my backpack and bought a new board........I have six months of surf travel ahead of me with the one goal to be surfing w...
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Introducing Zak......welcomed to the family at 2.34pm this afternoon, 6'3 / 183/4, 21/2.......mum and board are doing fine. I bought him from Yahoo surfboards in Dunsborough (awesome guys, g...
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Trigg Point is the most crowded wave I surf on a regular basis. To be honest, I've only just started surfing the point.........not because I don't think I can't make it but because its full of ...
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I surfed at Windmills on Cape Naturaliste the other morning. It is a really amazing spot - typically south west, isolated, desolate, windblown but truly beautiful in that real West Aussie way. I...
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The best five things about todays surf - 1. That fin was not a shark, it was a dolphin. 2. I was not the oldest in the water. 3. I duck dived successfully (but not properly) under some decen...
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I have a terrible feeling that the winter swells have really, truly gone and flat will be the order of the day for the next few months. I haven't surfed for 12 whole days and there is nothing on ...
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I surfed at Lights Beach, Denmark several times this past week. I have been on a week long uni intensive studying Denmark and its surrounds as a sustainable, resilient region. It is s a pretty s...
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The sea, my soul......................a very cool name for a new Chilean surfing movie. El mar, mi alma. I like it. I read a beautiful article by Australian surfer, Belinda Baggs in the Aus...
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For some reason I really struggle going right. I live in WA at the moment (lefts aplenty) and spent my formative surfing period in Indo (even more lefts)...........it was my goal this recent hol...
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My friends and I had been surfing all day at Phillip Island, Victoria.........a beautiful island, east of Melbourne and pretty much where I learnt to surf. We were staying at my friends shack in...
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I was sooo out of my depth and spent the first few days literally shaking everytime we jumped in the boat. I didn't help that eveyone staying on the island were amazing surfers! Eventually I rea...
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I just brought a double surfboard cover for my upcoming trip to Indonesia. I'm so excited although I'm surfing so badly. I'm heading to the Mentawais just off the Sumatran coast and then on to ...
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