awe brahhhhhhhh

(nice bachwash)

KOEEL BAY really is a very COOL BAY... so Saturday. Wake up like 6.30am at school at 7.45am write bio paper 2 till 11.03am. quick pit stop at my cradle then off to caves. Sat in traffic for quite a while, the swell charts were only showing 5.5ft ocean swell so we were expecting it to be flat. Get there and its the best 1 – 2ft you have ever seen. With sick little sections and nice barrels. The water was like a bath and super clear. Like indo water. My pe board was like paper it was so warm. 24degrees, needed bordies. Its good to finally have some sunny skies BP pies off shores good banks and pumping waves. Yea so here are some pics of some waves. All photos taken by amateur photographer Pieter Ferreira. Using a Nikon d50 with 70 – 300mm lens. Enjoy these.

me enjoying the fun

harry with a goooood one

kyle with a vey good vert for small conditions

super nice one

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What can I say... only 5 exams left, but have a bio exam on Saturday, but after going to caves to see if I can get some waves. This is a pic of the GAS CHAMBERS setup on a super fun day. Vicus Kruger pictured. (Photo Mike Dei – Cont)

EPIC

So got some fun waves on Sunday, good old caves produced some fun ones that packed quite a punch. Left pretty early as had to go study. Heard that after we left there was a pretty horrific accident involving a motorbike and a cliff… not pleasant as you can imagine. Credit goes to Kyle Cabano for landing a sick pop revo and a pretty sweet little vert. Also to the big guy Fred Voster for attempting to bust a roll on a big section, in doing that loosing his board and cushioning his bail with his chin on a rock. Haha some good times. Il put on some of the frame grabs later in the week. Here are 2 photo’s taken by Ian Thurtell of a place on the west coast called ‘Farmer Burgers’ super epic wave which Marius Burger and myself scored uncrowded on 4 – 6ft. it’s a crazy sick reef that provides an epic barrel. Here is a glimpse of that wave in October. Don’t under estimate it, it can deliver quite a mean blow, which I experienced on my second wave there, snapped my leash, caught in the 6ft freak set and not able to tread water as there is to much kelp. Other than that its all high quality fun. Enjoy peace and good luck for examinations…
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BURN

There are many definitions for the word ‘BURN’ but there is one in particular that surfers and boogers alike really hate. I know this as I have done this on a few particular occasions. But it has also happened to me. Not a fin thing and it can really spoil a good session. Here is Matthew ‘MAFOOS’ Lombard giving us the perfect example (photo: Marcel Habets). The next is of a man with the name Vicus Kruger dropping in on me with Michael McCourt about to do the same to him.

Shawshanked

You know how Jack Black sings “math is not a wonderful thing” in the movie ‘School of Rock’, not the case, he must have been high or something when he sang that. Wrote paper 1 today and it was pretty much like prison. We got pretty ‘analized’ or ‘Shawshanked’ by it. ‘Shawshanked’ is a term used by our grade, it’s a prison movie which was our film study. Writing English paper 2 tomorrow (about the shawshank movie, etc...) looking forward to it because once its done I have finished English for grade 11… hopefully. Not fun. But what is good to know is that a whole week of exams are over for me. Going through to CAVES on Sunday which should be fun. Saturday is a heavy study day. but I have motivation to study cause I’ll be rewarded with waves the next day. Here is a photo of Mr. Kyle Cabano surfing good Rot in June 2009 (photo Christian Junker). The next is of me with a small forward of the lip at pearly. Good luck to all writing tomorrow…

SOFTCORE

Well exams are in full swing and we are not able to do anything rebellious and hardcore. It’s pretty unfair how exams drain the fun out of everything. For example I’m super amped for a surf this Saturday, Saturday will come I will hopefully score some good waves and be stoked, until I get home and realise I have to study and then all my joy and happiness drains away into a pool of gloom and depression. Now that exams are going we have no way to stick it to the man, the most hardcore thing I can do at the moment is scrunch a piece of paper in the exam. The teachers are so uptight they threaten you with disciplinary hearings and “0” mark for the exam. So I better be a good boy and be a law abider, well at least till the exams are over. So I leave you with these photo’s of a few good memories before the exams came to corrupt the minds of our youth. So take pleasure in them.

POETRY

POETRY. So I’m writing English paper one tomorrow, which is a bummer but once its done then its just on step closer to the holiday. Credit to Mr. Christian Junker and his new post, it made my day! After long and hard studying this cheered me up. Find this post at http://hushconcord.blogspot.com/ so Iv been studying poetry and its pretty rubbish the poems that we have to learn. So I was going through my stash of pics and I found a few that have some poetical meaning. The first pic is a little place we like to call CAVES, a super sick wedge that can offer solid peaks with good barrels and huge sections, booger heaven in the Boland. When this wave is good and you can surf it uncrowded then it is way better than the best poem you have ever read, this place will always have a place in your heart. The second shot is of a man called Ryno Turketi, if you take time out to watch this guy rip you will see his style pure poetry. On DK or prone he owns it all, I have had the privilege to of been able to surf with him for the past few December Holidays and it’s always good to see him carve it up. The last is of me at a wave called Langbaai Wedge in Hermanus. Lovely and fun closeout left beach/shore break. You become one with the sand, no metaphor, and refresh yourself with a good pounding. I have had a few fun sessions there. Enjoy these and I shall be off to study more of these poems, and try not to think of this form of poetry whilst studying.