Garden shed and External Render

The waves have continued to pump until a few days ago when the swell dropped to about a metre for 3-4 days.This autumn has been so good for surf.

I'm now building the garden shed so i can finally empty out the garage to convert it into another bedroom.And in between that and surfing i've started the external rendering also.Its not very easy as i havent really (except for inside) done it before.Its an acrylic render which makes it easy to apply and seals the walls well. i'm trying to get a rough and kinda old finish on it to match the existing house,as the other walls are pretty rough .With my lack of experience ,my finish is (when i try to get it perfect!) so rough that it actually looks similar.

We had our first fire for the season last night so that means we're moving into winter.The weather is getting colder .the leaves are changing colour and starting to fall.Autumn is a very pretty time of the year here with lots of different colours and lots of still days.It also means the water will be cooling down and i have ordered my winter wetsuits.I need 2 new ones this year,A 5x4x3 with a built in hood and a top of the range 4x3,so with the

hooded suit from last year it means that i can(hopefully) always have a DRY suit ready at all times

Quik Pro 2010

The Quik pro was on here last week with some amazing waves and some amazing surfing.Brian Forward was in town on holidays,so we hooked up and watched most of the competition.Thanks to Richie Porta(now head judge of the ASP) ,who sorted us with some VIP passes,we got to watch the comp from the stand and enjoy plenty of free food and drinks and finished off each day with plenty of cold beer(also free,good on ya Rich!)The waves were most of the time,incredibly heavybarrelling waves that were only for the best .I have never seen anyone surf in conditions like here before.Normally too inaccessible from the beach without jetski assistance the conditions were absolutely jawdropping and the surfers wereimpressive in the way they attacked the thick heaving and a lot of the time dangerous waves at times up to 10feet high.Jetskis are used here quite often ,but they are usually on the outside banks and not inside and maybe only 50 - 70 metres from the waters edge.Well done to the water patroll boys for that!Owen Wright and Dan Ross had one heat where Owen broke 3 boards in 4 waves and then Dan broke one too.4 broken boards in 15 minutes.Ridiculous stuff!!!!!!!!!!!Shame for Owen coz if he hadnt broken so many boards he would've no doubt advanced.Immediately after the heat was over he had a 10ft wave that had him so deeply barrelled and for soo long it waould have been a 10 no worries.Slater, Ace Buchan,owe wright and of course the eventual winner, Mick Fanning were the standouts in a real spectacle of a competition.I was so lucky to see such an event live

Apart from that the waves have been pumping for all of september up till n ow;Great autumn conditions with another good week in front of us.The crowds left last week when the circus moved on to Portugal.Uncrowded pumping waves were everywhere last week.