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Published: November 19th 2008
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underwater antics!
me goofing around! So i am now getting settled in Sydney where i will be till the 28th Nov before flying to San Francisco.
I have loaded some more pictures here of the diving course in cairns including some of the final dinner that was held on the last day of of the trip. They include pictures of my friends Jen, Anna and Freddie along with some more underwater shots.
I spent my last morning in Byron at circus school learning the static trapeze! i wanted to attend the flying trapeze class but they only ran on the Saturday and i wanted to head off down the coast that (Friday) afternoon so i had a private lesson on the static instead. It was great fun but reminded me how out of condition i was and MAN did it hurt! i have the bruises to prove it! The backs of my knees are black and blue and my hands are a little blistered but it was worth it!
After that i spent a couple of hours recovering on the beach before having my hair done. My hair has been in terrible condition due to my time in Asia so it was time to stop looking
so ferrell!
By the time they had finished with me it was 7.30pm and i began the 600k journey to Sydney. I stopped at around 10.30pm and found a motel in Coff's Harbor where i spent the night before setting off at 10am the following morning to Sydney. It took around 7.5 hours of driving from Coff's which was actually a real pleasure and i enjoyed every hour of it.
I am staying with my friend Fiona in Manley and it was really amazing to see her again. Her place is situated a few mins walk to the beach and is in a great location...so Emma, are you greeeeeeen with envy yet??? Unfortunately she was working (as a singer) most of the weekend so her partner Debs and i caught up on Sat night and then went to watch Fiona sing on Sunday afternoon at the Coogee Bay Hotel. On Saturday evening Debs and i were sitting outside the local Thai restaurant having dinner when who should walk past us but Anna and Freddie from the diving trip!!! Neither of us realized we would be in Sydney at the same time let alone be staying 3 streets away in Manly!
We continued to bump into each other and met up Monday night for a final couple of drinks before they left to go back to Melbourne. Monday morning Fiona took me to the Chiropractor which, i have to say, was a well over-due visit indeed! According to her my back was "a disaster" and wondered what on earth i had been doing the last month.......well you can imagine her response when i told her!
We then did some shopping and went back to the apartment and cracked open a bottle of bubbly and spent the afternoon catching up on old times, new times and the times in between. Two bottles later we thought it would be immense fun to play the Nintendo Wii...............well you can imagine the outcome!
Yesterday morning i had my first Surfing lesson. WOW! i loved it! but the weather conditions weren't great and the waves were tough but i stood up frequently and fell off more frequently! I had some awesome smashes, crashes, falls, swallowed half the ocean, got hit over the head by a number of boards but i kept going back in for more! and now?? I CANNOT MOVE! the best 2 hours of
exercise i have had in a long time! its exhausting! Although i think the pain in my right arm might be from playing Tennis on the Wii!!!
If the weather is ok tomorrow i will be back out there with Fee on Deb's board for another two hours of punishing fun!
What does the week ahead hold? Well Friday night my friend Monique is holding a little soirée at her place for me which i am more than looking forward to! Monday Fee and i have booked a sky-dive! And at some point i will do the walk over the Harbour Bridge, something i didnt manage to do last time i was here due to being unwell. Now if i can manage to move off the couch we are off out to find some lunch. Its so good to finally be somewhere for more than 3 days. I can really settle and recoup a little (she saysafter ploughing through a million waves!) i don't think i realized how tired i was.
I will send another blog a few minutes after this one enabling me to attach all the surfing photos as there are quite a few days to cover photo
wise in this blog. I hope you enjoy the very funny pics of me battling it out in the surf, more to come later too.
So from Manly......till tomorrow. x
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Bong & Sims
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Cracked it
Hi Babe, You look great on the surf board, and it looks you've cracked the WATER Thing!!! Lots of love Bong