taking the good with the bad

July 27th, 2010 by matthew

Well i hope you guys enjoyed the Philippines clip, nothing ground breaking but better than sitting in a shoe box going nowhere fast!

Since the clip i made my way back out into the Australian desert with the Nomad team testing all the new boards and materials along with good mate/filmer Lucus

Trip started out great, waking up to perfect waves with none in sight, i set up my water housing for Lucus to shoot with, things were looking good, about 20 minutes into the surf everyone getting barreled, sun is shining, whales are breaching (yes, literally 10 meters away in shark infested waters) and basically everything was all bells and whistles until Alex Halsey decided to punt a solid backflip onto my housing, the impact snapping my $1400 canon fisheye lens in half (i treat this thing better than my own mother!) now as you can imagine Alex and Lucus were feeling pretty bad (and so they farkn should!) hahahaaaa but me being the humble understanding guy i am i know that this kinda stuff is total accidental and shit happens….So with a snapped lens and a shattered man, we drive off to check another spot, but not without hearing another snapping noise under the wheel as we drive off…what was that?…i look back to see Chris James holding up a pair of crushed sunglasses…yep, mine!

So day 1 kicks off with a snapped lens crushed sunglasses and come that afternoon i get skull dragged over the reef so hard my knee and leg were now rendered useless, but thats not all, sunset brings a migraine rivaling someone beating a drum above my eye, so i now set up my tent and sleeping bag and continue to toss and turn all night in minus degree weather with a migraine and bung limbs!!! great first day!!!

Now with that all out of the way the rest of the trip actually ran really well, we continued to get amazing waves for the next week with not another person in sight

Plus no one got mauled by a Great White so ill take the good with the bad.

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