We scored the Zoo pretty sick the last two days. The first day was pretty good size, triple over head on the sets, with bombing thick exploding barrels all over place. Ben, Moe, Tobias, and Dano all rode and got some solid ones. At the end of the day Moe lost his kite in the seaweed and Dano desroyed his 10 in the shorebreak but everyone survived. The second day was a bit smaller but everyone one took beatings trying to either pull in or smack the lip on the closeouts. Needless to say the footage is nutzzzzzzzz! Frame grabbers from the session to come shortly.

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Well we just emerged from the fly infested dustbowl desert outback of Western Australia.  We have been riding at a left hand point break called Gnaraloo.  We scored a couple of days of swell and wind and are headed now to Margaret River for more filming.  More updates and photos will follow of our sessions once we are situated in Margaret River. 

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Here are some frame grabs from the past couple days sessions. Winds have been pretty good and a small swell has been running making for fun conditions.

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The last few days have seen no wind, but nice head to shoulder high surf. We have decided to wait it out for another expected wind and swell episode on the sunshine coast before we commit to our WA trip. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. Here’s a couple of frame grabs from surfing Alexandra headland.

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Well we finally got a day of wind, sun, and waves. Here are some frame grabbers of Ben and Moe slayshin it up from the day. We are riding the remaining days of swell and wind here on the Sunshine coast and are planning our trip to WA in a few days for more filming.

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It has been like four days now since the last post. There has been no wind, small surf, so the call has been golf. We went to the local golf course yesterday, and needless to say we were killing it. We only lost 18 balls. Actually 16 cuz Moe went wading in the slime filled lake and found the two we hit in the drink. Ben is the only one of us that can actually drive the ball somewhat straight and actually owns his own clubs. Golfing in Australia is pretty cool, it’s the only place where you can be getting ready to tee off and a whole pack of kangaroos will run across the fairway making for some fun targeting opportunities. Here some shots from the session. Wind and waves are in the forecast, which is the reason we opted to stay on the Sunshine coast for time being.

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p.s. - these are some of the only shots ever captured of Moe actually wearing shoes and sox.

Today we took gramps (Morris) to the airport. His leg is doing well post-op and he is headed back to Hawaii for some rehab. We are contemplating heading to WA to catch a swell there, but are monitoring the forecasts before we decide what to do, there is another swell with good wind forecast for the sunshine coast.

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Today there the wind was too offshore to kite, but the surf was still shoulder high and CLEAN out the back of Ben’s house so surfing was the call. Later on in the day we rigged up the slackline over the pool in the back of Ben’s house.

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Today the winds shifted a little but did not die at all. We decided to ride at Caloundra rivermouth. It was super windy (7m) when we first arrived and well over head high waves out the rivermouth. Moe got all his kites and rode as well as Ben, Joel and Beaver. Still pretty socked in with rain at the moment making it not so good for filming. Ben ended up doing a second session later in the day.

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The last two days have been super windy and LARGE surf for here. Yesterday was 4-8ft faces with solid 9m wind, and today was 8-15ft+ faces with 7m wind! It was all good except for the fact that it was pretty much raining the whole time Ben and Elliot were riding making less than ideal filming conditions. The surf was large enough to amass somewhat of a crowd of onlookers at the point break we were riding. It was even enough for the local news station to come down and shoot us riding and interview Ben for the local evening news. Later on the evening news, they referred to us as “Kite Flying Storm Chasers.” Now Ben is getting famous here in Kawana for chasing these elusive storms while flying his colorful kite. Frame grabs coming soon. Moe also arrived today and will be riding and filming with the crew. Later on in the day Ben, Moe and Elliot drove to Noosa to surf the famous right hand point break only to find 150 other surfers who decided the same thing (check the pic.) Oh yea, Tobias, if you’re out there, we just wanted to let you know that we are doing fine and that everything is OK in case you were worried about us or something.

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