Show us your....Pics! V2

[marcus]

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I know this is fcuckin lame but mention of G-land has me frothing.
This one was also taken by John.....it was also my first wave of the day.
John is a seriously weird and interesting guy who knows alot about the esoteric aspects of Plenkung.
Took me a week to get over smoking cloves and drinking bintangs with him on the last night there.
By the way this is the day when the guy got his pelvis smashed and had to be driven out.

how awesome was the surf that day, besides all the bad stuff that happened.
got it at low tide lunch time all to myself, whole reef at g land empty... but got smashed on one that the shocky blew all the water away from underneath me. just coral

i rode that mal that guy richard was on when he broke his pelvis, it went allright at kongs into moneytrees, an old brown beaten up longboard.

[steve shearer]

Like that last turn.
Whiiiiip.

[puurri]

just luuurve that organic counterweight.

[puurri]

I'd confidently call that a 5ft drop.

And, yeh... might as well have been shooting with a phone camera... compressing to <60Kb is just plain fcuked!

Old way I'd call it an oldster's real 5-6 foot (relative to the lip hitting the face)

[Lucky Al]

where is saffron deli iggy is it in thirroul

[Lucky Al]

well i grew up and learned to surf here but i've been away for 15 years, and things are a bit different now. twenty metres north of the byrne shop, you say? i'll have a look this afternoon.

[Lucky Al]

i'm going to post a series of pics i took the other morning, showing parts of the route i usually take on my way to the beach.

first, i walk down the lane and go under the train tracks. there are brick walls under the tracks which you can't see in this pic, but usually they're all tagged up. i was walking past and looking at the tags every day, until one day the railway went over everything in brown. and that night someone came along and tagged a wall again, and added in big letters: 'this wall ain't worth shit!' i had to laugh.

[Lucky Al]

when i was a boy there was a brickworks here. a couple of my mates went to work here after high school.

[Lucky Al]

i turn left at the willow tree and walk north up the slope.

[Lucky Al]

at the top of the slope i veer right and go past thomas gibson park, where people play soccer, rugby league and cricket for their lives. how's the escarpment in the third pic - d. h. lawrence called it a 'dark tor'.

[Lucky Al]

this is taking me too long. i'll do the rest tomorrow.

[steve shearer]

I know it's not for everyone, but feel free to add your impressions, Dh Lawrence style.

[daryl]

that must be in ref. to the year lawrence lived there, and wrote Kangaroo. When I spend time on the coast, I often think how much lawrence missed by not exploring more, my guess is he freaked at the early sunsets around Lucky Al's way. He probly didnt realize that It's the sunrise on the east coast makes a day worth living

[Lucky Al]

i haven't read kangaroo, but i'm reading a book called d. h. lawrence at thirroul and the author, joseph davis, quotes from kangaroo throughout. in regard to lawrence and the east coast sunrise, daryl, what do you make of this passage from kangaroo?

...there was an unspeakable beauty in the mornings, the great sun from the sea, such a big, untamed, proud sun, rising up into a sky of such tender delicacy, blue, so blue, and yet so frail...

[Lucky Al]

i'll continue with the series i started the other day, just a few more to go.

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