The 1000 Day Holiday

Well the travelling starts.

Don’t even know what to take.

Off to Melbourne till Friday ( 😀 😀 😀 😀 My Birthday! 😀 😀 😀 😀 )

So much for organising a party.. pfft! just rock it up wherever I end up, although pretty sure it will be a plane party on the way back 🙂

1 week to go till first consult at the sleep clinic.

Spent yesterday morning on the Trapeze w Susannah. Great fun, and quite addictive. Will definately be back there again.
Pics: Learn the Trapeze

Well,

Went out today, first on my Yarga 13m. Was probably 19knots gusting 25 and climbing.
Was ok for a while, then I broke my Board leash. seriously big gusts coming through at this stage. So I then came in and put up my 9mYarga.

Wind ended up being 25+ knots gusting 35+ bad bad bad!

Anyway, Managed to do a back roll. (And i think a kiteloop, cant confirm that tho)

Landed it too 😛 hehehehe

The weekend just been has begun my progression into boosting jumps & transitions (using the kite to lift you off the water, a transition being a change of riding direction on landing). Anyone that saw me at the beach and in fact for the entire weekend found the size of my permanent grin quite disturbing. 😀

I was managing to land 50% of the jumps, not bad considering the wind was really gusty 20+knots and I was out on my 13m Yarga.

I also finally got some kiting sunnies. Absolutely love them, they stop the spray 95% of the time and its great I didn’t even have inflamed eyes after 2 full days at the beach.
Talked to another kiter, whos had multiple ‘insert here – name for growth on eye from excess sun’ removed. He can still see which is positive for me.

Finally uploaded the remaining roadtrip pictures…

Aussie East Coast Roadtrip Pictures

And to rub salt in the wound, I turned my camera on again when I got back to sydney, and it works again. Ropable. So many cool things/people/places not snapped. Sigh. I will just have to do it all again.

Well I have now secured a new Job.

Professional Services/Account Manager for a large Network Management company.
No recruiters were used/harmed/paid in the scoring of this job.

Looks like I will be getting around a bit as well. I will be covering Australia/NZ.

Moby & Teeth girls adventures into the land of hip hop have begun.

It was really good fun, unco-ordinated footwork and arm flailing. But just you wait for us to break out the synchronised dance moves 😛

Now we just need matching trackys and sweat bands.

Well today my holiday oficially ends. I am now clean shaven and wearing a suit.

Lets see if I can survive a day at the office without topping myself!

Caught up w shane before he headed back to NZ this morning, and met Saffron, the new flattie. Nanouk cooked up a wicked 3 course meal.

Entree:
Portobello Mushrooms grilled with Blue cheese, honey, red capsicum, Pecan nut, pepper

Main:
Green Curry.

Desert:
Dutch Trifle – Basically the same as kiwi trifle except they use Sponge Fingers which are harder than kiwi sponge. almost like a biscuit.

Dropped into Port MacQuarie for lunch, didn’t see anything enticing to stay so moved on to the great lakes. I can see why the KitePower roadtrip spent many days at lake wallis. It is HUGE! I would love for some wind tomorrow. Either there on in the surf I dont care.

Went for a swim at Boomerang Bay. Was going to go to the spit @ Smiths but was running low on petrol and put of on the long gravel road access. Maybe good in a Southerly…

Will head to Jimmys/ Hawks Nest if no luck. Not far to go now to be back in Sydney, but no rush.

Cant believe my holiday is coming to an end. Looks like a new job offer is coming my way. Very interesting.