Hi there! Woke up at six this morning! Yeyy! Dozed until about ten and pondered takin my board to the beach for a while. The two girls call to tell us to hurry up at about twelve so we move and i dismiss the board as i reckon it will be mega busy at the beach.

We have quick breakfast then head to the train station and buy tickets. After a treck under the maze that is central station we find our platform and board this spaceship! This bad boy has got two layers (yes double decker train!!!) it was amazing! Got seats and stared at the surroundings while chatting with the italian (irene! With a sexy accent).

Turns out we have to walk about two bloody miles to the beach off the train which is gay but we end up seeing a lot of random stuff like an old chinese guy cross a busy cross road at around 0.2mph (the guy had the stride span of around 5cm literally!) dont worry someone eventually helped him across after five minutes.

So get to the beach and the place is ridiculously RAMMED! However! There is a SICK skatepark to the south of the beach and there was a full on competition there. There was also a surf comp at the south end of the beach with big tents and RVs so there was a lot to see; the industry over here is so much bigger and better!

Chill on the beach until about 6 (probably about 26/7 degrees all day!), then go and find some food while we wait to get the bus back. Meanwhile the italian nico joins us and guides us on where to go.

Find an italian take out pizza parlour and sit down for a beer with nico, irene and the german (ana) while harry and soap find a macdonalds (idiots!). We take the pizzas out and find a spot on a grassy bank in the warm evening sun overlooking the surf. We observe a guy and his son playing raquet ball, comments are ranging around cute an sweet until he starts abusing his position and rocketing these tiny (what look like nasty little squash balls) balls into his unsuspecting group of friends while his son points and laughs?!? Somehow he gets away with it and his son is taight some valuable lessons?!

Wat a day so far though! We head back on the train and harry, soap and i head back to our room. I lay down and reluctantly drift off for 15 minutes. It gets to about ten and i dont feel like getting up (lingering jet lag!) but get a text off ana as we arranged to see nico off as he travels to byron bay. We go do that an meet some of nicos HOT italian cousins who have come to say bye, they said they study economics and were inside all day (gutted!) but are going travelling soon when they finish and want to surf..

Nico goes and i head back to the room, wait till 12 then go watch newcastle v everton in the irish pub around the corner. Turns out it isnt an irish bar but an asian hamg out and we are the only white people! But the beer is CHEAP (for aus!) at $3AU and we find some seats so we stay. Some asian girls ask if they can sit at the same table as we had to occupy the biggest bloody one, five minutes later 12 of their friends turn up and things start getting awkward as we are huddled in the corner screaming at the football while a poor girl is tryin to celebrate her birthday! I make up for it by takin a picture of them!

Randomly the irene and ana walk past with and see us in the window with our asian friends! They come in and ditch two weird blokes who follow them from the previous bar! We chat and i realise irene and i have a communication barrier as its loud and i speak too quick with too much slang (or my own strange vocab) but we battle through as i find myself repeating at least three times most sentences. We celebrate when we get through one no repeat conversation it feels pretty good! We checkout the !REGGAE! night downstairs which is full of black people so that means it must be THE BEST REGGAE NIGHT AROUND! However it costs $20AU to get in so leave, at the door the bouncers are frisking wveryone with a metal detector on entry so we realise its for the best that we go home! We then go chill in my room then the girls go to bed.

It gets to 2 o'clock and harry goes downstairs to get beans on toast, i follow and get talking to two swedish skaters who are here for a skate tour around the east coast, we chat about how mental keith moon, ozzy osbourne and sharon ozbourne were and i get their blog details off them to watch their skate movies. I then flaked off to bed!