| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Nozawa off its brain!!!
Todays report "The snow started dumping around sunset last night and within about 3 hours we had accumulated over 30cm. This is no exaggeration! It was heavy and beautiful to watch as everything just got completely covered in the white powder. It kept going throughout the night and up top we had a huge 75cm fall at Uenotaira. We had only been expecting 20cm max. This morning the sun has come out and it is a perfect blue bird day in Nozawa. The sun is most welcome and will hopefully help with the huge recovery effort in clearing the snow from the Village today. On the slopes this is a day most people wait their whole lives for. A massive 460cm level base, over 60cm of fresh powder, the sun is shining and the slopes are empty. If you are here enjoy it, if not I recommend you get on a plane, train or bicycle and get up here! Enjoy Door! |
| Name: | religion |
| Comments: | Dreamteam. If you want a say this season then join The Winter league (code 303724). |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Bon voyage Hames. Great reviews from local sources re the Lorne Shed gig. Jumped off a fruitless down south search yesty and enjoyed consolation clean ankle biting curls at Skenes.When you leave Japow I will grab the baton and continue from the 31st, don't track it all out! |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Better late than never #2. The Gong August 09. Finally found a couple of pics from the day of days.
Off to Japan for some snow and radiotherapy next week. Reports are of the best snow in some years.
Descents will be way easier and much more fun than the climbs on this trip tc!
Happy New Year to all.
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| Name: | Humpty |
| Comments: | Late but better than never. All the best Colonel for the milestone. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | Many thanks for the thoughts. Its taken a while to accept there is a road ahead, one that I never really expected to see, but at this stage its clear enough and with summer, warmer water at least another month off ..... its early days but perhaps the descent will be easier than the climb. The surf Saturday evening was solid enough, glassy and not a soul to be seen. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Congratulations Tom, your message was a bit cryptic for me.
I celebrated Lamar at the Town Hall's 50th birthday last Sunday with Smokemachine putting on a stellar show and the amber flowing well into the night.Would be great to get together soon, pity Cactus was too hard to organise. Doing yard duty at lunchtime today entailed reeling off torps out of the goal square while the easterly swell made Lorne Point appear mildly attractive. |
| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | Congratulations TC on a notable milestone. I hope you raised the bat. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Best of birthday wishes tc. Spoke with the Pecster last week. Would love to catch up maybe over your way for a celebratory beer, surf and rave before christmas. Shame we couldn't sort out a safari this time around but must try again next year. Maybe for my 50th? |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | 50 |
| Name: | Blind Freddy |
| Comments: | With a low spinning in the lower latitudes I could not fathom Swellhoax.net call for 2-3' for Sunday on the East Coast. Sure as eggs strong 4-6'sets greeted the morning crew.
It was even 3-4' on the West Coast FFS. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | At The Eyre with Super Dave, waves have been good with beautiful weather, besides the thunder storm gale that passed through last night. Leaving tomorrow, good luck on the gig Hames. |
| Name: | Dazed and Confused |
| Comments: | Shed Zep ready to rip it up at the Espy next Saturday 15th. Set list should look something like this;
The Song Remains The Same Immigrant Song Communication Breakdown Black Dog The Ocean Achilles Last Stand Heartbreaker Misty Mountain Hop Dazed And Confused Stairway To Heaven Whole Lotta Love Rock And Roll |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | two nice Mondays off. Solo for half a dozen nice ones at a gentleman's hour this morning (as below) |
| Name: | tt |
| Comments: | tbc says 27th call in a row
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| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | Many thanks to the colonel. It will be worn with pride, and will be sure to raise a few questions in this very surf fashion conscious industryville. You probably should have sent one to Libba as well. |
| Name: | c/o billabong |
| Comments: | Teahupo highlights vid |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: |  |
| Name: | religion |
| Comments: | All these northerlies feels almost spring, but we're still in the depths of winter. And don't the demons know it. The wind swung early. Its cold, and all to look forward to is the blues. |
| Name: | tt |
| Comments: | It is only the left side if look out to sea from here |
| Name: | tt |
| Comments: | Purple stuff in the water heading our way, then spreading out up and down the the left side over the north border then across to vuzut the cuzes un enzed:
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| Name: | OMG Land |
| Comments: | Returned from another successful mission to the legendary left hand reef break. What an incredible place! Twenty days of surfing without a days rest. Six hours on the last day nearly finished me off. I doubt there is a more reliable place on the planet. Some lengthy lulls between waves around the 4' mark on the slow days. But a few incredible sessions went down. Like 4-6' Money Trees pre breakfast with two others. Freight trains for two hundred meters and more. Nothing of serious size this year though the day we left was shaping up as 8' sets poured through the bombie. Still, a couple of decent thrashings and hold downs in 6' was a reminder of the power of the place. Only one issue. The wave breaks left. If it were a righthander you couldn't drag me away. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Made a last minute dash to a salty estuary on the over the border in search of some much anticipated Tasman treats. Alas the main ingredient failed to show.
Had to be content with inconsistent 2-4' with the odd bigger one. But that makes it sound better than it was. Hungry crowds and unpleasant localism got in the way. Still, it was good to make a return visit and get a taste of what looks to be a very fine set up. Synoptic looked good. Not sure what it takes to get the joint firing. |
| Name: | tt |
| Comments: | Click image to see early morn gold Bells heat where Fanning takes over outsider TBC & later Joel takes over from Mick |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | Small but not a drop out of place last night. Blew it up later so it was sketchy today. After finding an old school mate last week, lost one yesterday.  Roger O'Hara passed away. |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Autumnal Bells turned on clean 6' plus sets and tradie-free conditions during Wednesday morning. |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Had a beaut Saturdee morn at the fave with the eldest nailing every set. She raised the flag for the sistas and showed the pelicans where to swoop from in an impressionistic C-scape. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | The wind hung in as the swell built on the open beaches yesterday. Mattmac was out early. He appeared puzzled when we spoke, maybe it was the old sod look or just the crowd. During the midday low tide there was magoo and a bloke who turned out to be an old school mate from 30yrs ago (one of the few who surfed). Luckily we had chatted and shared plenty of good spirit and fun waves cause it was a complete surprise to both us later, when we were introduced. The last surf was almost Indoesque looking into a still punchy setting sun and backlit tubes. Long lulls but quality waves in between. Got a couple of real good ones. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Lordy, next you'll be doing lent. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | Ahh the ales of March |
| Name: | Fresh from the Chicken Shop |
| Comments: | Heavy blues, acoustic ballads, psychedelic rock, eastern influences and more |
| Name: | religion |
| Comments: | If you're into it and want a bit more out of the season, try Dreamteam. League code is 999229. Welcome. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Worked scanning tickets from 10 til 3 then was free, so getting paid to see the Stooges was fine by me. And if you don't know, it ain't hard to see what he wants to be |
| Name: | Paul San |
| Comments: | Ungroomed and away from the summer crowds |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: |  |
| Name: | Paul san |
| Comments: | Had a great couple of days with Petes and family at Happo 1. Pete's scored the big day and we scratched the credible leftovers on Friday.Blue sky and very white snow, very cold asahi. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | WC weekend with wildlife, waves and wandering about the falls end of season. To take a teamful of kids into the water at Lorne (it gets shape) I passed up a good walk and empty 3-5, still Door was cheered and the good times came easy at the barcode. Glassy today. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Went walkabout in the Himalayas with my beloved. A few things have changed since the last visit circa '82. No more chillums on offer at arvo tea. The hippies are gone, replaced with grey hair and gortex. Kathmandu is doing the Bali crazy circus thing. But the mountains remain, forbidding, majestic. And the only way in is by foot or wing. Some enchanting moments on the trail hypnotised by the scenery and tunes on the trusty ipod, a traveller's best friend. 
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| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | a bit sketchy yesterday but the sun was warm, the water clean and the beach empty |
| Name: | Per PowDoor |
| Comments: | The shiny red helmet impressed many across the ditch. Back in Oz and amazed at the unrelenting pressure shown in the GF. Relief only a week away.
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| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | When I was IG, I vaguely remember some advertising negotiations with some unwashed dreadlocked type who had invented a device called HELLCAM. This was a snowboarding helmet with a camera in it so your mates could rack up shots of some stylin down the mountain. Perhaps door could look into this, or is this TBC's secret? |
| Name: | Date Stamp |
| Comments: | Soon the sun will rise due east and set due west. And spirits can lift as days become longer than nights. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | From dusk till dawn the gong delivered. Marvellous session at first light with Mr Everywhere-Man TBC yesterday morning.
Followed up with a repeat performance late arvo. Blessed to have such perfection twenty minutes down the road. Accompanying pic is of the eye catching break nearby.
Glad to hear you're back in one piece and that Mount Shutt delivered the powdery goods Door. Is Methven still the sleepy shanty town it was when I last visited circa '82? Or es et now up-markit eh? Bro. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Back in town like FIG'S Doggies, doing it for The Smiling Assassin. Finished up with 5 days of snow with blue skies at Mt Hutt, returned to Christchurch via the epicentre of the big shake, got some chair massages via aftershocks last Sunday morning. Master tour guide Deano knew more than most Kiwis but spoke wisely and sparingly. Triple Bong's natural half pipes were shredded by Deano as Mr Intermediate took notes and plotted the next rung on the ladder, being backhand top turns on lefthanders, no snaking or drop ins! Pix to follow. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | Yeah but you can’t dis the kopi and kreteks. Maybe its the doggies getting you down. Fear not, they’ll do it for Johnno, and to spite Acker and stick up for their gay teammate – whoeveritis. And good on em. BTW. Did those ‘3 nice days at Falls’ har bring the heaviest rains north of the divide this century? And then there was sleepy old Christchurch. Keenly awaiting the next update from the Door – might be some money to be made, with better odds than spotting no balls. |
| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | I often look on in wonder at TBC's remarkable ability to get the job done, and when I compare his efforts to my measly catalogue of shots depression sets in. Perhaps I should have had more of a dip in Sumatra instead of smoking Gudangs and drinking coffee with Peck. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Credit must go to TBC for having a dip and showing the application to keep the board alive. TBC, how do you manage to set the camera up and have it shoot you from a remote location right on cue? Do tell as I could use some tips for the land of the long white slope! |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | It seems my winters are dawn to dusk football, with no amount of wiliness enough to escape to either warmer waters or powdered slopes. But for the champ's remarkable ability to chase down, shoot and post down hill, down the line, round the world fun, the board would have been painfully stagnant these recent cold months. As it was, I was still thankful to be in dreamteam. Still the change of seasons brings some hope of crisp turquoise empty open beaches, and with some time off later this month, hopefully some decent contributions are just around the corner. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Three nice days at Falls Creek and off to NZ for a week. Let us all pray that The Pies find their September wobbles now spring has sprung. Hey Colonel, you are a little deficient on the posts, the webpage might have to undergo a name change, The TBC. |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | The tinlids reckon it was mindfkngobbling. Plan to attack the Japanese slopes for some powpow in 2011. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Dear oh dear, those wasted school fees! Surely it's unfknblievable?
First in the water on aforementioned freezing Wednesday and snagged half a dozen before work duties called. Stories being told of some serious rogue sets well into the teens late afternoon . August sure can deliver around these parts. Chook Shop gig was a blast last weekend. The latest edition of the local http://www.oceangrovevoice.com/ reviews the show on page 17. Retro Revival Revisited tonight at the Bowling Club. Shed Zeppelin, all girl seventies heavy rock band Mother, and The Doors on the bill. http://www.thedoorsshow.com/page2/page2.html. Very worried about the Pies. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | that would be unfknbleivable |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | B&W turned it on for minimal crew on Wednesday. Did the run to Omeo late in the day and had Hotham at its ShamWow best on Thursday. Knee deep with waist deep stashes - unbfknleivable. |
| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | Perfect sand, swell direction and wind made for a chilly evening session at Munceyville that was the most perfect I can remember. Session was enjoyed with one Muncey for company. Faith restored that it is still possible on the outskirts of industryville, although I suspect there may have been several hundred and B&W. |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | So, having checked previously that I could take my board to Perth, I arrived at the Jetstar counter only to find that in its cover it was 3cm too long (ie 193cm). No they could not fit it in a container, and that plane only took containers. No they couldn't put it in diagonally. Either leave the board at the airport, put it in a taxi home or get it freighted over. So I headed over to The Aust Express office, asked it to be freighted and paid $120. " Yes we can get it to Perth by the time you arrive. In fact we'll put in on the same plane. It'll fit no worries. It's just Jetstar in Melbourne - bureaucratic, inflexible. Anywhere else in the country and you would have been fine". Surfed Mandurah bar, and Cottelsoe twice. Send the board back in the post for half the Aust Express freight cost (though it still hasn't arrived at home. $60 a surf - almost the price but far from the quality of Indo. Footy was OK but. Vic Metro lost the GF to WA. |
| Name: | MBoy |
| Comments: | TBC at o/corner - whoopeeee |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | A true south swell hit the archipelago on Sunday and relished the big lefts before scoring Sanur rights at dawn on Monday. |
| Name: | mattmac |
| Comments: | It's good to see TBC keeping his newly discovered "secret" spots in java a secret!!! |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Trekked through Central Java to WhatYou would call a majestic bay 4 hours east of Yogyakarta. A stunning find and all the better with only a couple of surfers in this neck of the jungle; most sessions solo. The local word is it can go right off like a vomiting angin on a true west swell. |
| Name: | Per NBC |
| Comments: | No end in sight Repeat of super Sunday on w/end-not as perfect Today dropped kids off at school and raced to Bra Got out of water at 2pm ready for pick up As good as. Jumped off rocks at north end-3 guys out-1 bloke backhand grabbing rails on take off and pulling in deep and out again 4 sec barrels 4 times as I was paddin' up. Surfed nth end for ½ hr before being enticed into Indo style reef break in middle-absolute barrel feast from take off all da way-not shifting-just perfect, sware (sic) you were over reef. Who’s who of surfin out there but jovial/friendly - Mark Matthews, Tom Whit, Azza (with bro Koby on beach out of hospital and walking !! with neck brace),Nicola Atherton, Richie Vass, Billy Morris (beaut shots) to name a few. Got the perfect wave. Tired of the 15 or so crowd and paddled back Nth-serious heavy Quarra impersonation with heavy rip and now 12 blokes. Suddenly cleared to 3 of us - Mark Matthews nodding at me to go on a few dredging……… Sun out, 3 of us –had to keep going As good as-if not better! Good call not to go down the coast—no need...  |
| Name: | Per BronteCam (PBC) |
| Comments: | MayDays captured at Bronte Pool. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Hames, during that exceptional period I was lucky enough to score a favourite point with 4 others on the Friday, perfect conditions, as the swell got bigger the wind disappeared completely. Saturday morning was perfect and one of the few advantages of being motherless saw a perfect mid morning to lunch time surf on the Sunday.
A week later I completed my 12th Half Marathon, taking in perfect 3 to 4 foot perfect waves from Kennett to the bay. Very happy with 1:37.Will be in the neighbourhood this weekend, footy Sunday? |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Some great sessions went down in the surf fest that was last (long) weekend.
Restricted to the afternoons of Friday, Saturday and Sunday but scored some great waves on the Rincon through Bells express on the trusty 8'0. Sunday was nearly a disaster. I did all the family and mother's day things in the morning figuring the winds, tides and crowd issues might favour an early afternoon surf. Was frothing at the mouth in the bells carpark just about to suit up around 1 o'clock when my mobile phone went off. To cut a long story short I had to get back in the car and do a mercy dash to my sister's place in Altona to attend her ailing pet pooches !*#!. Seems all they were suffering from was a case of separation anxiety as my sister is overseas. Her well meaning neighbour overreacted and all they needed was a pat on the head!!! Made it back in time for a fabulous late session with my conscience intact. By all reports bacon and eggs was smoking on the Monday. Catch some tube time with Shed Zep at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ5SA8PbfYQ |
| Name: | mickeyboy |
| Comments: | Monday was awesome - thanks for putting up the photos TBC |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Blue Monday. Woooooooooooooooooooooop
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| Name: | FIG |
| Comments: | Back in the drink with a Saturday session to remember. Vic titles for planksters at Pt Imposs sent me a bit further down the road. Conditions like I haven't seen for a while and not too much company either. Hoot |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Loving the autumn lines after a vulcanised layoff. Friday smoked and Saturday was cranking with 8' sets. Standby.
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| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Bowls club gig was a blast. Violin bow got its maiden run. Well received despite feedback issues. Can't wait to give it another crack.
Came crashing back to earth on Sunday morning as a result of an unfortunate incident involving the family jewels (left to be precise) and new "rocket" surfboard at Bacon and Eggs. We are not yet on talking terms. Never in my life.....etc etc. Sidelined for a while yet and still doing the cowboy. And no sympathy from my beloved!! |
| Name: | David Scott |
| Comments: | Mate we corresponded a bit this time last year, and I went to Sumatra last year and had a blast and so am going back again this year, great stories and the page is really cool.
cheers Scotty |
| Name: | The bowler gig |
| Comments: |  got tx |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Have savoured the WC under an easterly regime courtesy of Humpty back from places that cannot be named. Cant see 4-6' on the EC as called on Tuesday but maybe time to embrace the European models. |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Missed the littoral feast served up but attended the G with the youngest to savour the rebuilt forward structure. The bitter Yellow n Black need to lower the bar in the expectation stakes or risk self inflicted harm - the local Under 12s show more poise under pressure. |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Yes, Autumn delivers. Solo point surf Wednesday, slight onshore but sunny and shapely. Attended the game in shorts no less. Long season for the Tiges yet again. |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | Cracking bacon 'n eggs for brunch this morning. Pork barrels and pig dogs a plenty. Some master chefs strutting their stuff to add flavour to the fair. Returned for a second serve at dusk. Fat and fullish but western sky put on a magnificent sideshow. Retired to the den this evening to rest the weary bod and watch the season opener. No doubt about it, autumn wins hands down. |
| Name: | religion |
| Comments: | It all starts this week - lockout Thursday. League no 113696 |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | Yes Hames, like ground hog day, whenever I make a grammatical error Mr MCEGS finds it amusing to pick me up and I take the bait. They must have superior English teachers there, maybe that's why they call it Grammar, but in the words of Peter from Peterborough, "There is only one grammar Tony".Look forward to grilling Jack for a review. Congratulations TC on your early musings on Dinosaur Junior's latest LP Farm, Mascis live cuts no corners and reproduces recorded music with extra intensity. His laconic demeanour on Spicks and Specks made that moron on his left even more unfunny than he was already, or is that disfunny? |
| Name: | Hames |
| Comments: | And that would be unnecessary For Free. And what on earth are you doing scouring the internet for grammatical errors at 05.45?!
On another matter I must take issue with the current swellnet reportage of the local conditions down my way. Todays onshore write off was given a 4 out of 10. Good grief. Two weeks ago 6 inches of formless crossshore slop was given 3/10. Some serious recalibration required here Thermal. I suspect the tragic past few weeks of surf on the west coast is starting to take its toll. The recently retired but still active former reporter gives a more accurate indication of todays conditions together with another diverting reflection on matters other than surfing thus http://www.rastasurfboards.com.au/Rasta/SurfReport.aspx |
| Name: | tc |
| Comments: | DS is an interesting option this w/e as it might be a good way to get around the backside of the big High. Sadly, early season footy fundraising means I’m non available but. |
| Name: | For Free |
| Comments: | That would be uninterested |
| Name: | Door |
| Comments: | The aforementioned Music Festival was called Golden Plains. Dinosuar Junior presented a flawless set in pouring rain, Pavement were also good. All reports daytime lineup excelled on Sunday. Today I took my Freeform twin fin to Kennet River for some fun clean waves, disinterested in the larger options. |
| Name: | TBC |
| Comments: | Plenty of action and plenty of mates at PBB. Sundee arvo the highlight with swell jack and an easterly that hung in. Went truly weird at dawn yesty with westerly, lightning and then a powder blue morning with offshores and ominous cumulus billowing to the west.
How wet was Meredith door? Any highlights? DS this w/e? |