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Australia

Chunky Narrabeen

We saw a long-ish period 4-6ft south swell on the forecast and thought it might be good to take the jetski out. It ended up being smaller…

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Australia

Narrabeen full moon

I saw there was a full moon and hurried off to Narrabeen to try capture some celestial light shining up on the beach. By the time we arrived…

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Australia

Sydney surfing day of the year

The week starting from 4th July was one to remember. Relentless east swell is not a regular occurence during winter in Sydney, but we’ll…

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Australia

America bay & West Head bunkers

Rachel and I went for a morning bushwalk on the America Bay track, and then visited the West Head army bunkers which are still relatively…

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Australia

Narrabeen SE Swell

The day after the fun, peaky ESE swell hit a larger, longer period SE swell appeared for the next morning and the rest was history. Some of…

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Australia

Narrabeen ESE Swell

A nice, short period peaky ESE swell hit Sydney today and I just knew it would be pumping. We got to narrabeen at 7:30 and got out there…

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Australia

Curl Curl snorkel

A couple of the boys went for an afternoon speafish and snorkel. There weren’t too many good fish around. The best I saw was a decent sized…

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Didgeridoo

DIY pvc pipe didgeridoo

I found some vidoes on youtube of people who had created didgeridoos out of PVC pipe, but had made the mouthpiece out of wax. I decided to…

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MTB

DIY Electric bike

I had a sudden urge of converting my mountainbike into an electric bike after seeing my neighbours petrol zbox motor that he added onto his…

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Surfboard

Making a surfboard

This post will be my visual journal while I am working on making my first foam and fibreglass surfboard. I’m going to be posting everything…

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DIY

Planter stand

My parents wanted to have a stand for one of our fibreglass planters, but didn’t want to spend $100 on buying one. So I got to work…

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Australia

Dee Why session

The waves pumped at dee why point for the first day of winter. When I first rocked up at around 8:45 there were just lines stacked on the…

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Australia

Narrabeen morning

It was a smoky morning from hazard reduction burns going on in the blue mountains and also narrabeen head, but the wind was offshore and the…

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Australia

Narrabeen towing

The waves were smal but clean, it was the perfect day for doing some tow ins and perfecting the air game. Jamie drove the jetski up to south…

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Australia

Turrimetta and Manly

On this day Joe, Emilie and I went to do some filming for a video at Turrimetta beach/headland and also went to north head in Manly at…

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Australia

Warriewood

The waves were flat and the weather was nice and sunny so Joe and I decided that we should swim through the Warriwood blowhole and see if we…

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Australia

Bawley point

Bawley Point is a little town on the South Cost of New South Wales, Australia, in the Shoalhaven area, with a population of 698 people at…

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Australia

Drone lights Freshwater

Inspired by some of Reuben Wu’s drone lighting work, I 3D printed some lumecube mounts onto my phantom 4 drone and headed down to freshwater…

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Australia

Exploring Mccars Creek

McCarrs Creek is a suburb that is located adjacent to McCarrs Creek, approximately 4 kilometres west of Newport, at the headwaters of the…

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Australia

Edith

Edith is a locality in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The locality is in the City of Lithgow local government area…

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Australia

Crescent Head weekend trip

With cyclone Oma predicting huge swells and offshore winds for the Mid North Coast,Josh and I changed our minds about heading south and…

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Australia

Celito & Boomerang beach

On our second afternoon of trying to find waves on the Mid-North coast, we scouted out Celito and Boomerang Beach, and ultimately ended up…

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Australia

Ben Lomond National park

Here are some images from a day trip to Ben Lomond, where we walked to the cabins and the mountain summit and checked out Jacob’s Ladder…

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Australia

Cradle Mountain sunset

We went down to cradle mountain for sunset, and the conditions were really great. It’s funny, right before all the tourists showed up the…

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Australia

Dove lake Cradle Mountain

I really wanted to do the cradle mountain summit walk, but I guess the lake would do while I was with my parents.My first view of Cradle…

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Australia

Coles bay Freycinet National Park

While visiting Freycinet National park for a few days, we stayed at Coles bay. There were some pretty sick beaches and bushwalks all around…

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Australia

Bruny Island lighthouse

I wanted to fly my drone at the lighthouse but after seeing the strict no drone flying signs which seemed to be littered around Tassie, I…

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Australia

Douglas waterhole

A cold afternoon swim in the douglas waterhole, in Douglas-Apsley National Park, Tasmania. It was the middle of summer and yet the alpine…

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Australia

Abandoned farmhouses on Bruny Island

While driving to cloudy bay in Bruny island to go surfing. We stopped at a couple old wooden farmhouses that had been abandoned. They made…

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Australia

Albino wallaby Bruny Islanc

I had heard about the elusive albino wallabies on Bruny Island, so on our first afternoon there we went hunting so see if we could find any…

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Australia

Bruny island fog

While exploring some of the dirt tracks in Bruny Island, a thick layer of fog set in and we were left with some surreal conditions for…

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Australia

Bruny Island mailboxes

This post is just a collection of cool mailboxes I saw around Bruny Island, all totally unique. These gave me some inspiration for my future…

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Australia

Cloudy Bay

While driving to cloudy bay in Bruny island to go surfing. We stopped at a couple old wooden farmhouses that had been abandoned. They made…

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Australia

Abandoned farm in Tasmania

Trying to get to this surf spot on the east cost of Tasmania, we drove past this abandoned or just run down farm/storage place. There were…

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Australia

The Farm, Kilalea State park

Our last stop of the South coast road trip was the farm. And with a south east swell + offshore wind, it was one of the better surfs I’ve…

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Australia

A trip to Belmore Falls

Our second last stop of the South Coast trip was Aidan’s holiday house at Kangaroo Valley, so we decided to go to Belmore Falls. Belmore…

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Australia

Disaster bay

While we were on our “schoolies” south coast trip, we were camping at saltwater creek campground and went for a day trip spearfishing to…

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Australia

Saltwater Creek Green Cape

On our first morning at Saltwater Creek in Green Cape, Joe, Kaelan and I ventured off on the rocks to see what cool things we could find. We…

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Australia

Whitby's farm

The original plan was to spend a few days at Whitby’s farm, which was a wild few days for sure. Ebikes, 4x4s, rolling cars, broken ankles…

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Australia

Wolumla peak

Before we headed up to Whitby’s farm, we stopped off at Wolumla peak, which gave us panoramic views of the south coast mountains and…

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Australia

Meroo head

Out first stop of the south coast trip was Meroo Campground. We walked down the track to chill on the beach for a bit after being in the car…

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Australia

North Head campground

On the drive in to the campground we found this crazy hollowed out and burnt tree. Had to stop and take some photos. I can’t remember why we…

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DIY

HSC design major project

My motivation for this project is to apply both practical and theoretical skills and techniques which I have learnt in my previous year in…

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Australia

Byron Bay trip

Here is a small collection of photos from Byron bay a couple of years ago. Excuse the colouring, I didn’t really know how to edit photos…

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Australia

A swim in the Never Never Creek

On our way up north to Dorrigo NSW, we stopped off in Bellingen and swam in one of the waterholes of the never never creek. The water was…

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Australia

Crescent Head afternoon

Aidan and I went for a walk on new years eve on the Crescent Head cliffs attempting to take some cool photos of the cave and the grassy…

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Australia

Davidson waterhole

We went and explore the secret Davidson waterhole after school. I don’t think I’ll put the location in this post out of fear that it will…

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Australia

Blue fish point waterhole

Blue fish point is a spot in North Head, Manly. I had seen photos of a cool little waterhole there, so Rob, Abbey, Emma and I decided we…

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Australia

7th June Queenscliff Bombie

One of the nicest waves at the Bombie, the day after the best waves of the century in NSW.

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Australia

Bantry bay

Bantry Bay, a historical army storage facility, abandoned and forgotten, left to explore illegally in Middle Harbour.The location of Bantry…

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