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I don't have a problem with one of Vic's main theses : that an unaccounted percentage of people missing presumed drowned are actually shark attack victims. Also believe the science regarding shark numbers is highly dubious. In this area the sightings of Great whites and encounters/attacks is increas...

I was gunna go see that film last night (Under the Sun) at the Northern but was too phucked after a fun late session at Lennox Point.
Planning on checking it out and reviewing it.
Free-Ride era Hawaii is a pretty well-ploughed paddock....wonder how much fresh insight there is.

Hey Don, the forecast for Wed was bumped up to 3-5. Which seems pretty on the money. Lot of noise in the signal here (lennox Head).Lump and gurgle. Seems the direction is a bit more south of East than expected. And thus Northern NSW seems a bit bigger than north of the border. Know where I'd be goin...

roughly oval with a thin translucent sail ? small purple tentacles fringing the deep blue oval base? Thats a "by the wind sailor" (vellela vellela), a pelagic hydroid (relative of jellyfish), common around the world. Nematocysts that don;t affect human beings. Does pose an interesting dilemma for ve...

Fair enough Steve, but would you care to have a crack at a possible solution? Well one step in the right direction would be to remove the massive subsidies paid by taxpayers to support conventional ag (less so in Aus, true but still there) vs Organic ag , which receives no Govt support at all. That...

..... the efficiency improvements in Ag over the last 25yrs have essentially meant a lot more food from less, a signficant benefit to all. Woefully, laughably inaccurate. Your confusing efficiency with yield : which in conventional agriculture is purely a function of fossil fuel inputs (chemical fe...

Rockin' Ron wrote:
..... the fastest track to environmental degradation, in the agricultural sense, is the proliferation of organic farming in western society? ...

I eat meat and come from a farming family, but that is total bullshitt. Please explain how you figure that out.

I find it troubling that people seem to be proud of their lack of compassion. How far down the chain does your compassion extend? Does it extend to bacteria, mosquitos, viruses. Every ideological movement to impose compassion on human beings, including the biblical parable quoted has only lead to t...

i'm a vego surfer and i've seen lots of animals killed to be eaten by humans - cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, goats, a buffalo, frogs, dogs, fish and many more i forget right now. i've also seen a couple of humans be killed by humans, but i don't think they were eaten afterwards. my grandfathe...

yeah, GFS and EC doing a strange paso doble on the chances of cyclogenesis in the CS next week.
Only small areas of favourable uppers.......

I thought with all the cuzzy bros over here, it might make it a bit lighter ie easier to tow away Damm thing is smack bang in the road as the fetch intensifies. aarrggh. I like the look of the storm track so far though....long wave trough steering things sou-east and a quasi stationary monsoonal gyr...

don't be scared to put a shorter,less raked, more basey fin on that puppy if you want more drive.

Just a quick note as the people we are talking about are real people that deserve some privacy, could we keep the info gossip free if possible? Please only write something about someone that you know they wouldnt mind reading on the net about themself, within reason. Cheers The truth doesn't always...

Would love to try it out.
I've got a sweet 6'5" Mitchell Rae flextail that is just about ready to be re-waxed in preparation for some real waves.
Can't seem to make the pm thing work.
Thanks for the considered response.
Steve

Hey guys, I have just finished a new formula Cold, Warm and Tropical Wax.. No offence mate, but seeing as this is a public forum I have to ask. Why? Isn't the currently available wax perfectly suited to the job of maintaining traction on a surfboard. Seems to me you'd have an easier time selling a ...

video of Rob Machado riding the Biscuit... > http://www.surfingthemag.com/surfing-photo-video/surfing-videos/flash/rob-machados-biscuit-by-al-merrick/ .. Pretty damm funny to see America's sultan of soul, towsurfing a retro board into a crowded Bali line-up. I guess paddling into 4 foot surf has be...

Hey Don, I spent three months in the Phillos during the La Nina year of 1999. (Sep-Nov). Seems that because of the increase SST's in the Nor-West Pac...the typhoon storm track was higher than usual. ie instead of forming around the Palau/inter tropical convergence zone they formed much further north...

Well GFS certainly phcuked up big time with that call but as it stands , it's a damm good thing. A semi-stationary low pressure region drifting in the Coral Sea (the original Low progged by GFS , did move off the CQ coast , drifted NE and is weakening). Looks like a nice sustained tradewind swell re...