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On Monday WA had a public holiday, so we took the opportunity (with wind and swell conditions aligning favourably) to go on an excursion to Boranup beach and give the Prado her first run on sand. It was an awesome day, and we pretty much scored a bank to ourselves. Our mate Rita who’s over from Sydney came with us (she took some of the photos below and that’s her on the first two wave shots too). Luca? He slept through most of it.

This was at Bears yesterday afternoon…

Quick question - does anyone have issues seeing the video? I’m using Quicktime as a format, but assume most of you on PCs would have iTunes installed by now anyway, so should have the player already installed.

Does it get any better?

… and I surfed in boardies. Sorry, Jane.

I ended up staying the night in Byron, but the pulse of swell from the afternoon before didn’t hang around until morning. So I started making my way south, stopping in to check first Tallows (nothing doing - still some size, but very messy) and then Broken Head - bingo! It looked pretty good when I first got there so I went out for a wave, but it rapidly deteriorated - mainly closeouts.

I’m still bludging around the Sunshine coast, waiting for this weather to clear and the surf to do something. Anything. Just not incessant howling onshore slop (plus ça change, eh?).

On the other hand, they do have some fine skate-parks here. Every little beach surf club/foreshore area seems to have one - the photo above is of the one at Peregian Beach, south of Noosa heading towards Coolum - and yesterday the rain actually cleared (but no luck with the wind or swell), so they stopped resembling half-drained kiddies swimming pools.

I ended up cruising south past Coolum and Maroochydore looking for a board shop (more on that later), and ended up spending a large chunk of the afternoon skating the Alexander Headland park (I’ve put a link in to it on a Google map, was hoping for a ’street view’ but they don’t seem to have it for this area…). It’s a nice big open park, a bit older than some of the other ones around here, and accordingly the concrete transitions are a bit rougher. Some good skaters here too, and a fair crew of sullen-looking emo/stoner skate kids hanging out across the road at the local skate shop. Ah, the derelict teenage years.