Hello again, This is my first entry after arriving in Australia. I arrived in Melbourne early friday morning and have been staying in a hostel called the National Hotel in downtown Geelong since. The hostel is clean, in a good central location, run by friendly people, and is relatively cheap. We are currently been pretty busy looking for a place to stay. Andrew and I have been looking for a spot with Daniel Walker and Melissa Jennings, two friends that I have known for a couple years at NC State. In the process of looking for a place to stay we [View Full Entry]

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Hey again, another update of the trip so far. The past 2 days were spent on the North Shore, We did a bunch of surfing near Rockies up there. It was consistently several feet overhead the first day, and slightly smaller the second day. We also went to Waimea Bay and did a bunch of body surfing in huge shorebreak and jumped off the cliff there. Today Andrew, Chris, and I went surfing on the south shore in Honolulu. It wasn't as big as the North Shore but I caught a couple of chest high waves. I think we are doing [View Full Entry]

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Another entry for 9:20am Saturday morning. Yesterday Andrew and I went spearfishing all day on the south shore. We went to a spot called Kewalos then went to Magic Island in the afternoon. We shot a bunch of Manini and Aholehole fish, both were awesome for a lot more fishtacos for dinner. They ended up feeding about 5 people. We shot all of them freediving with polespears. While we ate the fish we shot, we partied with a bunch of the people I used to live with out here, I have some photos and will post them as soon as I [View Full Entry]

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Hey again, just doing another entry for the past couple of days. Yesterday Andrew and I went spearfishing at Magic Island. We saw a lot of excellent fish and wildlife. I saw several big fish including, bonefish, ladyfish, blowfish, and others. I spent most of the first half of the time trying to find octopus to spear because I heard you can find them in the area. I couldn't find one so we just ended up spearing 4 Manini (only about 5-7 inches). We took them back and made some amazing fish tacos. Earlier today we went hiking on an amazing [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, This is my first blog entry on this site. We landed in Hawaii about midnight on the night of May 7th. After landing we moved into some friends place in Kahala which was pretty cool. The spot was nice and close to bus stops and near a little grocery store. We went and bought some cheap food (pita and peanut butter and jelly) and then went on to snorkel at Hanauma Bay and then bodysurf at Sandy's Beach. Both were excellent. We just take the bus everywhere and I get to use my old Hawaii ID to get on [View Full Entry]

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