November 11th, one to remember.

After we take a minute to silently remember our soliders and say happy birthday to Leonardo Dicaprio, its time to also remember November 11th as a day that Byron went off, tubes were rampant and everybody surfed, except me, I took photos. My board was landlocked at home, and sadly with no car I am bound to time constraints revolving around daylight, riding my bicycle with surfboard under arm and the 10mins of near shoulderless highway biking as the bike path ends before my house. The bike path is currently being extended but we have heard projections of four years before it is complete due to council budgeting. 

Back to the surf, the wind was light and off shore, the air and water temps warm, and the swell was finally coming in like a mo-fo.  So bottled up the tears and started taking some pictures on that glorious day. 

The Pass...

Clarks Beach/ Main Beach...











The Wreck....













Robot Birds....

Please press play and proceed....

Discover Dinah Washington!

that was some storm last week.

The world is a small place and all that....

So the other day I was just minding my business driving home from a happy little surf at wategos. At one point in this coastal drive there is a stop light that tells you which direction the traffic is going at the moment, which is almost always the opposite from the direction I am trying to head. This part of the road has been reduced to one lane since the 'natural disaster' earlier in the year, not sure exactly what that disaster was, lets hope it doesn't happen again. 

This day was no different than any other so as I waited for the light to change my eyes wandered around the scene in front of me. Lo and behold, right there at eye level a little star catches my eye, its none other than a sticker from Pura Vida Surf bar in Mimizan, France. Mimizan is a mere 1.5 hour drive from France surf hotspots Biarritz and Hossegor, but it might as well be on the moon as far as the beaten surf track goes. However I definitely had some good nights in this bar and some fun surfs with the owner chica Elles while I was in Mimizan for 5 months last summer. 

Random days finding this obscure little reminder on the other side of the world and a testament to the power of stickers especially when in the hands of people who surf, snowboard, skateboard etc. we just seem to love stickers. 

Byron Bay Australia circa now...

Mimizan, France circa 2007....

Byron...

Mimizan....

Byron....                                                                              Mimizan.....