Hippie Beatniks and Me
This is a picture of me at the eastern-most point of Australia, so that is the closest that I can be to you guys. Well, I was in the water and I paddled a bit further out to surf and technically that was the closest that I could be to home. But on land that is the eastern-most tip of Australia. And if I didn't look like an absolute serial killer in that photo then maybe it'd be nicer. Moving on!
I've described surfing to people as similar to golf (yes back to surfing). That's because when you play golf you have days where everything goes right and then others, or in my case 'most', where you feel like you're swinging at the golf ball with a wiffle-bat. Surfing is the same but more 50-50. Sometimes I feel on top of the world and then there's times where I paddle out and then procede to look like a blind drowning cat: wet, hairy and unable to see anything around me.
The past two days have been sort of like the cat routine. I'd been getting thrown over-top of waves over and over again. I smashed my head on my board a couple of times, swallowed tons of water and had a hard time putting anything together. You guys know those days where nothing goes right and you just look at the sky and go 'what the shetaki mushrooms is happening to me' ? So after yesterday's 3 hour drowning lesson and a couple of hours in the water today I was beginning to think that maybe I wasn't as hot shoot as I though I'd been. The waves kept beating me up and at one point I even thought that I'd been stung by jelly fish all over but that just turned out to be pieces of sand that had embedded themselves into my side after I faceplanted in the shallow water too hard.
The lesson is, never let a blind cat swim. And always keep trying.
Tomorrow I leave Byron Bay and head closer to Sydney. I'll miss this place, it's my own little haven. The best way to describe the atmosphere is to imagine the government putting all the hippies and beatniks of the world in one beach town, giving them free reign to do anything but work, and then parking 100 campervans sporadically through the streets. It's a beautiful little place and I don't think anyplace, besides Banff maybe, compares to the relaxed nature here.
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It would be nice to have your picture on the surf... Meanwhile we had another snowfall and we are getting serious about packing for the trip to Europe. We wish they had the snow we have here. And we have to squeeze Pol-Ski slalom to the schedule somehow. So enjoy your summer because soon you will find yourself in the fridge conditions. Will see you soon.
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Anonymous, at 7:55 AM
Yeah, you haven't given us any pictures of you surfing yet. Hopefully you can squeeze one in quickly before you leave for Ausrtia.
Way to go Dzido on never giving up! This year I've been trying to do a 540 all year, with sometimes really painful results. But I'm not going to give up. Maybe I'll land one in Austria, even though I'm pretty sure they don't have any terrain parks there. We can get creative...
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Anonymous, at 8:07 AM
Geez you are tanned! Seriously, I thought to myself "Who is that Indian adonas, that shinny building of a man... OH MY GOD IT'S DZIDO!"
The Australia climate agrees with you. Maybe we should go back...soon.
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Paul T, at 9:22 AM
Mtl will be receiving the snow storm in hitting Southern Ontario now. From Thursday evening to Friday evening we expect : 20-30 cm of snow. At least it'll be good for me as I'll be going to Tremblant this weekend. Enjoy the sun while you can!
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Anonymous, at 5:28 PM
Lots of snow in Toronto!!! And windy, and cold. Paul must have love it. He loves extrimes. I checked Austria's weather - it is 16 degree Celciuse! Hope we still will have snow. If not - we will keep eating Vienna cheesecase in a super-duper company! I keep counting the days.
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Anonymous, at 7:37 PM
It's a wonderful feeling I get when I'm able to say "Dzido's coming THIS MONTH". I, like your mama, am counting down the days.
But... just to be clear. You didn't look like a drowning cat while you were surfing. You're not HAIRY! ... wish as you may. :)
Did you call me tonight? I had 4 missed calls from a "no name" which is how you usually show up.
xo
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