Surfmoot 2006

It was an extra long Surfmoot this year due to the inconvenient placing of the Australia Day holiday on the Thursday. A fairly large SA contingent went over this year and three of us from Anstey, Marc, Brendan and Myself went over with Daniel on the Tuesday night staying at my Mum’s before getting to Surfmoot Wednesday afternoon. From Mums house until about lunch it was pretty smoky due to all the recent bushfires and from the spare room window you could see where the fire had gotten to the week before, right at the back fence of the first row of houses. We were by far the first of the contingent to arrive as we expected and picked out the best sport we could before heading off for tea in Anglesea for some pretty good pizza. Aesir rocked up later that night with a few others coming in drips and drabs through the night.

The reason for going so much earlier was that we were on the 4WD expedition, which was planned for Thursday, but due to a complete fire ban and a 45 degree day is was postponed to Friday. we went for a drive around the place and found an apparent "nude" beach we were told about, which want really nude, but with some nasty rips and lachies down hill battle with the sea we went back to camp. Pizza again for tea and as wed been their before we sorted ourselves out pretty quick, unfortunately it seems that the rest of South Australia seemed sowewhat incapable of making a decision about anything let alone what to have on a Pizza.

4WDing was fantastic, some fantastic views around the place and really nice scenery even though there were salad rolls for lunch. We found a fantastic Thai restaurant in Torquay with the best red curry ever, it was so good I made everyone go back again the next night.