Well, lets hear it for Spring flat spells!  With all the travleing I was doing I’ve been amping to get in a session in Jersey, but looks like Neptune has it out for us.  I can’t be down there to check it at dawn every day, but every time I finally think there may be a swell after work or on a day off, I race to the beach to find that its knee high and onshore.  Rad.

So that leaves me with the options of A. posting nothing; B. posting more about non-surfing; or C. rummage through the archives.  I chose C.

In 2006, my brohan Jamie was living in Coolangatta, Australia.  He was over there “working” on getting his web development companies under way, and surfing here and there in between trips to the kitchen office.  With a free place to stay and a two week break between terms at school, I jumped a plane over there and shot a ton of photos and caught a bunch of rights.  It was my second time to the Goldy (if the flat spells continue I’ll post about my feral first time) and this time I actually was staying right on the beach at Greenmount.  Plus I wasn’t on a super tight budget so we were going out at night and actually getting to check out Oz a little bit more.  Best part was the waves were firing pretty much the whole time and there was a week straight of reeling superbank.

There aren’t many secrets to the Gold Coast and I’m not going to expose anything new or exciting beyond the fact that we caught really good waves and it was an epic trip.  So here are photos to prove it.  Enjoy!

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Lightning Over Kirra

All these people want to snake you so badly.

Jamie Bottom Turning in front of the Kirra Jetty

He's actually missing his heel side fin in this shot. And we're about 8 feet up and I think I get sucked over.

Shooting water at Kirra is gnarly. You get stuck in those sand rips and are dodging bombs with nowhere to go.

D'Bah - Jamie

Jesse Rendell came with me from Philly. He went nuts for his first time there.

Jess and I both missed our connections in LAX so we spent a night at the beautiful airport Super 8 followed by an 12 hour stint in the airport once the hotel booted us in the morning.

For some reason this dude reminds me of Humphrey Bogart leaning on a Gin bar.

Stacking sets at Kirra Jetty

Kirra was going off while Greenmount and Snapper were washing through.

View from Jamie's kitchen. Not too shabby.

Shortly after this wave I swam in and grabbed by board.

Koalas: Most over rated creature on planet earth. I was pissed.

Ladies! Still wanna kiss that kid? I didn't kiss any 'roos

Zander Morton was crashing on the couch too. Greenmount right before dark.

Zander with Surfer's Paradise in the background.