What a strange day - in the morning I was part of the academy and surfing with everyone, by the evening I was helping round camp and washing their dishes.. I surfed on my 7am lesson at Mulawarra. When we got there the surf was crap, just like the day before a choppy 1-2ft. This time I stalled for an hour on the beach, watching the waves and talking to Linton instead of getting straight in. When I did start surfing after about half an hour the surf just switched...

So this morning, my last full day of Academy (!), our lesson was at 7am. I got up at half 6 after a pretty bad nights sleep and after breakfast etc we went off to Mulawarra. When we first got there the surf was awful - 1-2ft max, with Rips going through any of the surfable peaks. As the tide dropped out it eventually became pretty clean in the southern corner, where I have surfed a lot recently as there has been no swell and rubbish winds. No matter what the sur...

So this morning our surf lesson was at 9:30am, which was pretty lucky as I had a lay in again and sorted some stuff on my NetBook. The group before had gone off to surf at Sandys and hadn't got back in time for our lesson, so we went off to surf Mulawarra and Linton met us there. Unfortunately the surf was absolutely crap - about 1-2ft max and choppy as hell. Despite having a really rubbish surf I came out in good spirits though, it was just fun to be out in the...

Writing a day late again - I got up around 8:30am after managing another 'lay in' which was great as I had been pretty tired following the weekend. I had considered getting up at 5am to watch the Man U V Man City, but having not got to sleep until late the night before I just couldn't handle the early start. Doesn't seem like I missed out on much though, a 1-0 City victory I wouldn't want to have witnessed anyway! After much debate and deliberation before our le...

For the first time in probably over a week I slept though the whole night last night - shows how tired I must have been after the weekend. My lesson was meant to be at 7am but I didn't wake up until 8:15 so I just surfed in the 9:30am lesson with the other group instead. The surf was 2ft and a little lumpy due to the strong cross shore, but I had a really good time again. Surfing seems to have become so much more enjoyable again over the last few days. Linton w...