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Boats. Storms. Pies. 20 Nov 09

A group of us overloaded into a tiny boat and headed north last Monday when the big swell hit. There were high hopes and the surf didn't really co-operate, but a fun day on the boat was had by all. There were waves, laughs, pranks, crowds, ticks and pies (the best in the world apparently.) Highlight was catching set waves in the boat, good times. No-one went overboard, we didn't flip or sink and I didn't die from tick poisoning. Great success!

As usual the big south swell didn't provide us Northern Beaches crew with many great options. Bombies were breaking and the flocks all gathered in the known corners.

Received a very interesting email from ex AV local Tony Bear. Won't tell you anymore... just read it.

"Hey Howzit Alex? Man i love gettin' ya Bluesnapper every week aye. My name is Tony Bear mate, i grew up in Avalon from 1970 to 1980 and now i'm livin' in costa rica, in Playa Hermosa, cool place mate but av was and still is my most favourite beach ever. Av has so many different breaks for such a tiny beach,yet it goes off at 15' to 20' 2 or 3 times a year, so many great memories bra, me and terry cow and pretzel, tony dom on the patma mat were the very first guys to paddle over to L.A and surf it with single fins and no leashes, i think in about 1972-73, before us was an aboririnal guy called flipper who use to body surf it all by himself,and he'd surf like a dolphin,so good this guy,in the day.we use to make big fires and rotate how many guys went out each time, god can you imagine, then you'd come in and thaw out around the fire and we'd fire up a chillem of black afghany putty, then go out again, hehehe those were the real surfin days mate, and the chicks would clamber over the rocks to save ya board from certain destruction, all in the name of love, hehe, really f#$kin' dangerous sometimes when lil av was bombin' all day long.... (read more)

Looks like a weekend of small waves, but at least it isn't 'no waves.' It is gonna be a hot one too, so slip slop slap and get amongst it with the rest of Sydney.

Thanks for reading. See you at my exhibition hopefully.

Cheers,

AL