Scarborough Beach Panorama!

I took a bunch of photos at Scarbrough Beach today and decided to make them into a panoramic - it's just like being there! (minus the heat and wind)...check it out! Click the image to enlarge..

Australian Surf Life Saving Championships

This was a pretty cool event! We got there just in time to see the start. This was a type of relay team event, one person would paddle out and then back in and then tag the next person to swim the course. The surf was massive!

Website: http://www.aussies2009.com

Ladies getting ready...

It was a good day to just lay around...

Mens...click to enlarge this one!

Me on the back of the sea-doo getting towed in from being out in the rip. Some kids were yelling help and nobody noticed them so I ran out with a body board and tried to help them..before we knew it the ground disappeared and some giant swell was pounding us. Lost the body board and couldn't swim back in because the rip (the reason the kid needed help in the first place). Needless to say the life guards came out, towed the boy in and then came back to pick me up since we failed at out-swimming the rip and since it was much easier; and before you tell me..I did try to swim across the rip.

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Sushi, Tanning & Sharks

Scarborough & So-called Sushi

Saturday March 7th, Anand and I went to Scarborough beach because we wanted to try this sushi place (Peko Peko: http://www.pekopeko.com.au/) near by..so we go there. Long story short, the place was NOT sushi..it was ¿cooked sushi?, if you can even call it that. The fish was cooked! To be fair, it wasn't bad, just not what we expected.

Mission: find out if they have real sushi here..isn't Asia close by?

Tanning Skills

In Perth, the sun is hot... but my tanning skills are even hotter.
I call it the four-finger tan line.

OH and let's not forget the shark sighting!
Apparently they saw a shark near scarbs, they had the helicopter hovering over the water and about 4 boats driving around along with a non-stop siren that came on and had everyone scrambling to get out of the water..it looked like the beach patrols were trying to scare it off since they weren't moving too much at first. We didn't see any fins above the water.

Everyone on the beach and the helicopter in the back.

Once the siren went off about 25 minutes later, everyone jumped back in..I was cooking by then since it was 32 degrees and so I joined but just made sure a few people were out further than me; us Canadian's aren't as dumb as we look. I never thought I'd be on the beach when there was a shark sighting, apparently if it's really dangerous they close the beach entirely.

Good news is I'm still alive, but I think even if the shark came after me I could have wrestled it down and then we would have had some raw meat for our real sushi.

Nightlife
Anand and I went to Onyx (http://www.onyxbar.com.au/) in Subiaco on Friday, pretty nice club...I reckon.

Dave, Me, Shaloni, Anand

Aussie words for the week (in order of importance)

Bottle-o -> Liquor store
How ya goin'? -> How ya doin'?
Uni -> University (they never use this word in full)
Carpark -> Parking lot
Ta -> Thank you (or something like it)
Scar-bra ->Scarborough