The Surf, The Sand And The Sharks

Yup. Perhaps it is a good idea to put a map in. So people will know where I am talking about.


I thought the campsite we had was really good cos its literally just next to the river. Easy to launch the boats...


...and paddle out to the ocean!


But getting back up to dry land can be an up hill task for some...tsk tsk tsk. Tell her to lose weight already but still...


Just to accommodate to the ang moh group, I decided to turn 'Aussie' for all my meals just for this trip. Also good lah. I don't even have to do the cooking.


Here are our feathered friends who drops by our campsite everyday. They act as my wake up call in the mornings especially the white ones, Cacatua galerita or simply called cockatoos. Did I mention that they love to be fed with high cholesterol food?


So...its time to surf...the waves were not too bad and pretty clean at some stage. Everyone wanted to try surfing with the kayaks cos I guess they never really done it before and maybe more fun than the boards. I gave them a quick crash course on how to kayak surf and the pointers to watch out for. I must say it was easy to teach them as they pick it up fast. I discovered that it also helps by having a good learning environment.


This is what I mean: Here is Tom and Amy catching the same surf. At the start, Amy was able to change her direction of surf quickly and it gives me great satisfaction of teaching them after watching this...minus the last part that Tom got trashed. Haha...They were able to do all this just after two days. As for me, I know how it feels surfing inside a tube (the tunnel of the wave) without crashing. Shiok man!


Other than driving along the coast to look for good surf, snorkeling was the next best thing...not for me. Seiow! So cold still ask me to swim around to look at nothing!


This is the other reason that I don't go snorkeling or diving in Australia. Found him outside a fisherman's shop with his teeth brushed.


It seems like there are quite a few of them around but all dead. Ali picked up another one along the shore. She then decided to return it back into the sea...in hammer throwing style.


Are the activities that I do dangerous? "The general public considers adventure activities to be dangerous even when appropriate safety procedures are used, typically because they have the difficulty differentiating between real and perceived risk"(Priest & Gass, 2005). So before you comment, would you consider yourself as the general public? Maybe horse riding by the beach might be a better choice...