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[quote="Matticus Finch"]Do you have any photos you can share Mentone? I'm still quite keen on South Sumatra if I can afford it, I'd rather see normal photos than the publicity shots./quote] I can show you dozens of pics like these that I took over the last couple of weeks, but I'm still conflicted a...

Pic resizing test, not familiar with the Mac yet.
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Had a mate a few years back with a German girlfriend who was quite a bit older than him. She used to drink the first piss of the day every morning, both his and hers.. That must be a very German thing to do, there was a German couple going to the gym I use, who used to drink their own pee…..geez ma...

I think Grant will take his own boards back as trade-ins.

I'm going to experiment. I have Blueberries on my cereal, and that site says berries have a lot of salicylates, which can cause dizziness, it's a good place to start.
Health was so simple for the first 50 years, now it's a hobby.

The body can throw up some real mysteries. I've been getting weird dizzy / swimming head kind of episodes for a couple of years now. Sometimes it goes away for a few days, and it usualy only lasts a couple of hours but comes and goes, but it's only mild and doesn't stop me doing anything I want. Som...

When I got to my last tropical destination and went to pull the board out of it's travel cover, it was glued in. It must have been left sitting in the sun for some time on a tarmac baggage train. Had to get a long stick in there and pry things apart. :lol: I used O'Neill superfreak booties and was s...

Yes well it isn't going to do you much good karma wise if you go around doing bad deeds to people justifying it because its their karma. If you believe the premise then their karma has nothing to do with whether you are going to fry as a toasted cricket in your next life. I was joking there, it's t...

Nick do you believe that Karma really operates in the world?
Personally I've found that it seems to apply when I'm in Asia, but not so much in Oz, and friends have made the same observation
I like the idea that I can do bad things to people, and assume they had it coming.

Matticus Finch wrote:RIP CURL FUSED SS BOARDSHIRT - just says micro-fibre on ripcurl..

That's it.

i eventually found something I am 90% happy with. had some time to kill while waiting for a flight so caught a taxi to the mega_super_ripaquickbong district in Denpasar and found a single solitary Ripcurl short sleeve rashy which, given the stretch test, had almost no stretch and didn't feel rubbery...

If you want to try south sumatra, i think the best thing to do is just book a stint at one of the surfcamps. There is a strip of camps/losmen at the villiage of tanjung setia, all right at the wave known as ujung bocur, a longish lefthander of intermediate difficulty. There are other waves, but ujun...

Yep, that's what I meant. If I fly to Jakarta it's to be a stepping stone to somewhere else that is not Lombok. Don't want to add an extra flight if I can avoid it, mostly because of expense. It's all up in the air though. I was looking at going to krui at some point, it's on sumatra and it's land ...

I stopped taking my doxy a few days ago, i was getting big blotchy red whelts on my feet and ankles despite being slathered in 50+ while riding a motorbike. I"ll just take my chances i guess. When booking flights beware of jetstar's shorthaul flights where they use the airbus a320, there is a length...

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you jeff, 55 yo, 6'1", 93kgs, 20 years out of the water and live in newcastle, we're practically bookends :-)( I'm from sth oz originally and kinda lost interest in surfing when i moved to newy 20 years ago, the crowds and beach breaks just didn't do it for me and...

Nick Carroll wrote:
Prevent sunburn? .

Yes purely for sun protection. Always surfed just boardies in warm water, but at 55 the consequences are becoming evident. Looks like i've come to the right place, thanks for the replies.

Trev wrote:PS. Took you a while to get around to your first post.

Only just got the registration email, had actually given up
I'll wear out my welcome in no time now
Yeah the rashy could be a size thing but i'll probably consign them both to snorkelling for now and get a vest.

Started surfing in a rashy for the first time 3 days ago but i'm having dramas sliding around inside it on my chest while paddling. It sticks to the board o.k. Just not to my chest. It's like laying on a slab of moss. In the process it's also cheese-grated a layer of skin off the bottom of my sternu...