Mojosurf

Mojosurf, was to be our last activity in Australia, a 5 day surf school from Byron Bay to Sydney, consisting of 7 lessons, at 2 different sites, 1st up, "Spot X" on Arrawarra beach, and 2nd, their own location in the middle of a National Park (I don't know how they managed that) at Crescent Head. Our Instructors were to be Antman, A local Aussie (on one day he showed us where he lived, and where he learnt to surf) sometimes he looked his age, sometimes he loked near 40. poor dude. He was very funny, but did sound like he'd maybe smoked a few too many drugs in his time. Second up, we had Adios. From Bali, his real name was Adire, and he didn't have a surname so on his immigration papaers he put "only name" down in the surname box to indicate this, therefore he is now known to the Australian Immigrationa dn governament as Mr Adire Onlyname. Only in Oz guys, only in Oz. 3rd we had a work experience dude named Sam along, he was absolutely sound, into surfing, drinking, music, and anything sporty, the other members of our group were a guy named dave we met as we got off the bus, Steve and Ottar from Norway, Julian from Germany, and Natalie from Switzerland. Yup, we had a group of 8, in peak they have groups of 50+ so this was brilliant for us, we got some real good teaching time, and at spot x there were plenty of other tours around for us all to socailise with round the fire playing "change places if you have ever..." You learn many interesting things about the people you're keeping company with playing such a game with alcohol, was a top night. that night, Natalie didn't come home, she seemed to have found herself an instructor to umm ;) ;) with. (Instructor not from our group, and to be fair, he did make alot of effort during the night!) The first day we only had the one lesson, and I managed to land on my big toe bending it forward too far, it did swell up over the next few days, and also bailed a bit awkwardly on my right leg, twisting it slightly and opening my knee joint a little, so I had a bit of a limp for a couple of days, but still, I got injuries surfing, so I didn't really care!!!!
Day 2 was a bit quieter at Spot X as there was hardly anyone else there until the evening, and their group was a bit seperated, and for some reason they all wanted to go off skinny dipping, so we left them to it. But two more surf lessons and it was getting better, we'd all managed to stand up properly, no matter how briefly, and were really enjoying it, there were some top class wipeouts (possibly the best part!) including multiple person wipeouts, me and rob, becky and me, steve and ottar, julian and natalie, a top moment where julian surfed all the way up to where becky was standing after her last ride, then fell off the back sending the board straight into Becky, who's onw board then hit her in the face, this was witnessed by myself, Rob and Antman, and we had no option but to laugh, as comedy moments go, it dowsn't matte who was invloved that was always going to happen and always going to be hilarious. This night, only myself and Rob slept in our room.
Day 3 was a quick surf after breakfast then on the bus down to crescent head, where the track reminded just a bit of the roads on Fraser, once there we chilled, me two guys who were the only other residents, having left Julian at spot x as he was returning to Byron. That evening we had a little time playing guitar by the fire (Yes! there was a guitar there, Oh how I miss mine :'( :'( )and some idle chat then off to bed ready for the next day's lessons.
Day 4 was our first surf at Crescent Head, it was a lush sport to surf, bigger waves just made it all easier, then I got hold of a nice big wide fiberglass board instead of the squidgy foam boards we had been using and surfing became so much more ridciulously easy it was unreal! ha da great lesson, then switched back to foam for the afternoon with a 1 on 1 lesson with Adi, and I managed to get up a few more times a bit more predictably, and kept going "one more!" we had a good laugh, came up with a few new nicknames, shared some good one liners, ("Oo me conkers" a la Unlucky Alf, came up at one point when Adi got lashed by a wave.)" That night the evening was dampened a little by the rain, but we still had a laugh. Before we went to bed we were asked who wanted to do the sunrise surf at 6am, there were a couple of us up for it.
Day 5. I got awarded Sam and Adi's "hXc Surfer Award" (hXc being hardcore) as no other bugger came for the sunrise surf, it awesome, ok, so I was utterly utterly knackered and useless, but I was the only one in the water and at one point I was walking out through the waves, seing two nice big surges coming up and above it was a gap in the could just wide enough to see the sun coming up over the horizon, just an awesome moment. as the session ended so we could go get some breakfast we noticed a good 10 dolphins sitting in the bay having a play so we stood in the water and watched them for a bit, it was a truely awesome moment, 2 in one day and it wasn't even 07:30 yet! After breakfast we got ourselves together, and left for Sydney, a fair old bus ride, where time was passed with movies, and sleep. We arrived in Sydney about 4pm, after a thoroughly top few days, we got our certificates, hoodies, picture cds and memories and I'd recommend it to anyone.

Sydney
In Sydney we stayed in Alexandria with Lesa and Jo, who Rob and Becky stayed with when they first arrived, we mostly just hung out and chilled, got very drunk on the first night, sent some stuff home via sea freight, so I should be home about the smae time as it arrives, and generally got ourselves sorted ready for Fiji. It was a nice few days, and I got to see a few people from the last visit, like Vikki, which was awesome to have a catch up and chill out and enjoy other people's company.