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About a week ago, following a fortnight of amazing weather (and an awesome couple of days in Sydney) I decided to get a surfboard. Not wanting to pay the $700+ that it would cost new, I decided to hit up ebay and scored a damn good board in pretty decent condition for $160.

Since then, the weather has been shitful every day, the best being mid-low 20’s, overcast and often as not rainy.

Until yesterday. Stroke of luck, although forecast to be dull and dreary,  Monday turned out sunny and warmish, enough to pack up the car and head down to Torquay for a day of surfing. The waves cooperated too, giving some steady 4 footers compared to the past 5 days of 1 footers.

Unfortunately, sunscreen in salt water does not last long, and I managed to sunburn myself fairly badly – but it’s funny as hell, cause the wetsuit left me with some really retarded looking tan lines.

Surfing itself was pretty good, learning to ride a 6′4″ fiberglass board is vastly different to a 8′ foam board, and I stacked often – the major difference, apart from the board being lighter and a LOT more manueverable, is that when it smacks you square in the nuts it hurts. A lot.