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.

SURFING AAAATLASS!!

Surfing Atlas is a recently launched 300,000 Australian based website designed to give you all the details about the major surf spots in the world. Totally worth checking out, with google earth maps, full disclosure on water temps, tides, dangers, wave directions and locals, basically you name it its there. On top of all this the fellas at the Atlas have managed to get some sick photos from contributors like paul kennedy, Tim Mckenna and David Pu'u. 

Only ten days after its official launch it seems as though the money has been well spent on something that is easy to use and nice to look at (cough). Time will tell how good the weather reports are, I have heard about secret naval information and I have high hopes. For those worried about the ramifications of not only another but an extremely well done site giving it all away, so far,  surfing atlas has really only covered the major, Pipeline, Witch's Rock, Hossegor type places that everyone who has any idea is going to know anyways and want to surf or at least see. So there isn't much danger unless the 'submit your own' gets used to its full potential.

 All in all its a great tool for some surf trip planning, looking at pics or checking out some interesting surf related articles. I'll get worried about the exposure levels when the little orange flags start popping up on the lakes.

South of Kalgoorlie....

               Arriving to the coast just south of Kalgoorlie it was all small town, cows, the odd kangaroo and epic empty beaches. In mid August the south west of Australia certainly isn't hot but I'm told that the lack of people can only be partially attributed to the winter temperatures. Life is just quieter here compared to the bustling east coast. I'm not complaining. Its pure beauty and magic walking along beach after beach of pure white super fine sand while watching perfect emerald green waves crash set after set with only the company of my mom and little brother as far as the eye can see. Its pretty cool I have to say and totally worth wearing a hoodie and jeans for.  Disregarding the temperature we (actually my mom) were unable to resist the call of the water and did manage a swim that was all in all much more pleasant than the few Canadian spring polar dips I've experienced. Its all westward from here to Margaret River......