so I think I can surf

if anyone wondered where I was last week, I was on a surfcamp! On monday I flew out to Sydney to meet Anne and pick up the rest of my stuff that was still at their place (and finally Ullis birthday and chrismas presents - thank you! Love the purse!). It was probably the last time meeting her in her natural environment (=Sydney), since she has to go back to Germany in July.
After a night out and way too little sleep in a hostel in Kings Cross, we set out to master the art of surfing. The bus took Marinke and me and 6 other absolute begnners to our first destination: the Waves Surfcamp in the middle of a national park (=nowhere), on a farmlike estate in the beautiful and to me so well known NSW countryside. In our first lesson in the afternoon we encountered the force of the waves, and struggled with them, the boards and the coordination of our limbs.
A good party and a short night later, our surf instructors took us to a beach with tamer waves which made it so much easier to get on the bloody board.
Early the next day, the bus took a sleepy and partly hungover group of surfwilling travellers further up the coast to another beach, then to another and then to a pub in a small country town whose name I forgot.
Friday, the last day, saw us surfing at brooms head. We actually did a little contest, and I cam 3rd in the first round, but it was more for the fun and sabotage than surfing skills. Heavy rain caught in the lunch break and we had to wait for the finals untill it cleared up, but then the waves were almost unridable and we kinda blew the contest off.
completely soaked we went back on the bus that took us to our final destination: Byron Bay. Our poor surf instructors took us to one of those sleazy backpacker bars, where food and drinks are cheap and by 10pm some usually british girls dance topless on the tables. I did not like the place very much and am not so much into body painting, so I left for the only other place that was still open: The Beach Hotel. They had a band playing, and somehow they did not seem to be local...they were actually from Melbourne and played a fantastic gig, check out Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra.










PS. I am still waiting for the others to upload their photos, so you will see a bit more of me on a board!