Sun, Sydney and Surfing

its been a bit too long since i updated this, sorry guys.

After our Melbourne experience came to an end last week. Our flight up to Sydney took roughly an hour. on arrival checked into the hostel which would be our pick up point for our previously arranged Rip Curl Surf Camp. The hostel was a beaut. as well as being modern and well managed the top floor pool over-looking Sydney was also a pleasant surprise. After photos of the bridge and the opera house, we walked back to our hostel. On route we stopped to marvel at the street performers. One in particular caught my eye. An English bloke riding a bike for no more then 4 meters. He was offering $50 to anyone who could also do it. After jumping on and having a go i realised if you turned left you went right and right you went left. I failed miserably at it. He also went on to say that he'd ridden this bike for so long he could no longer ride a normal bike. typical sounding English lad.

Monday morning around 6am i begrudgingly got out of bed to catch the bus to the surf camp about 120km south of Sydney. Conditions were perfect. Nice swell and perfect crumbling waves. the instructors were all really laid back, living the surfers life style. Getting paid to surf 2 times a day cant be bad. They were seen more as mates then instructors by the end of the 4 days. One particular instructor Shaneo was the typical "surfer dude" long Blondie hair, using the words "brother","dude","sick" and finishing every sentence with "ah", not to mention was pretty much the voice of Dori the turtle in finding Nemo.

After 4 days of surf lessons we were taken back to Sydney where most departed, me and Chris however took the overnight 12 hour bus from Sydney to Byron bay to have one last day of surfing. Today I'm pretty tired after my long ordeal on that bus. We both went out for a qucik surf when we arrived but conditions were great and the swell was only minimal. im just about to shoot off to bed and get some sleep.

hope all is well, good luck to greg evens in his trans america cycle BTW.