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!

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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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Surfing Trip!

Our surfing trip was awesome! We got picked up in the city at 6:45am which was way to early...but well worth it. The drive to Lancelin which is north was about an hour and a half. Once we arrived, we got into our wet suits and rash vests, got our boards and then they gave us some basic lessons and sent us out into the water! We were out there from about 9:30 until 12:00. Lunch was great and then we got back out and tried some harder stuff...like going out further to catch some bigger swells.

We went with http://www.surfschool.com.au who were obviously great!

Surfing running man

No caption needed..

Yeah, we surf...

Unit 12 ppls

Shawn, Alex, Anand, Anika
The people representing unit 12. 2 Missing..what a shame they couldn't come.

Oh I almost forgot to mention...

We all got up...quite a bit.

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Australian word for the day

Surfs up! -> Look behind you..surfs up!