Tasmania 3

Since it's Tuesday and Tasmania starts with a T, I figured we could pick up where we left off on our Tasmanian adventures. It's the cool thing to make your posts about the first letter of what day of the week it is right?

We came across this lovely shack with what was suppose to be a nice right hander breaking behind it. It was super fat so we ended up surfing the closeout inside the bay.

Tasmania has insects.

Chippa gets all grasshopperish.

Chippa wants to blow his legs off.

It was a nice hike across what was sure to be private fields.

Ben Godwin promoting his message of F' the cops!

Chippa's got the lien.

Ben looking over.

Chippa down the way.

Thom Pringle getting his.

Chippa.

Chippa kurrupt.

Ben's slob.

The beach was crunchy.

Ben going towards the beach.

Chippa high.

Ben's fields of glory.

Chippa kinda went nuts this session.

Our host, Zak popping one off.

Ben.


MOB looking good.

A little Shores love.

Hitting pine cones with sticks proved a worthy game.

Tasmania is weird.

Home is where the fire is.

Tasmania 02

So Newport was good for a few weeks and we got a little backed up with what we were posting. So now we're getting back on track. Welcome back to the Tasmania trip. We join the boys at a fun little beach break that became our go-to spot. It suited our crew: Chippa Wilson, Ben Godwin and Thom Pringle nicely. We also had Matthew O'brien shooting photos and his Tasmanian friends, Shaun and Zak showing us around.

Trying to see over the plants to the waves without having to walk all the way down to the beach. Doesn't really work.

Ben Godwin starting things off with this orbital bust.

Chippa trying to touch the island.

Ben thinking one day we'll hike the whole damn beach to find another wave. We did.

Thom Pringle kicking out the zebra.

Chippa waving goodbye to his friends, the fins.

Chippa still landed this.

Don't kid yourself, it was cold. Beach fires are a must.

Ben backside chuck.

Thom does this on the dance floor too.

Elevation is key for checking waves without walking all the way down to the beach.

Ben throwing rotators.

Thom touching his friend.

Thom shuv-it.

Ben out and over.

Back in the day, Chippa got bit by a penguin here, no joke.

Thom kicking it.

Chippa full rotator backside whip.

Chippa's shuv-it.

Scenes.

Ben mini jump.

Coming up soon, these Tasmanian posts won't leave you alone. Just like me and this damn dog.
MORE TASMANIA COMING UP!

Tasmania 01

Finally got to travel to Tasmania. I grew up with badass cartoon: He-man, Transformers, SilverHawks, ThunderCats and Warner Bros. The Tasmanian Devil? Come on, most of us have met Matto. Where are you my buddy? We knew Tasmania would be a mission but that was half the fun of the thought of it. I went there for around two weeks with Chippa Wilson, Ben Godwin, Matt O'Brien and the ever-stylish Thom Pringle. Here's the beginning of a series of photos from the trip.

This was us wandering around downtown Hobart, since our contact was MIA surfing some nuts slab that never broke again while we were there.... :)

Tasmanian roads.

A cat was a highlight.

Benny had to climb down at the docks to taste the Tasmanian dock water. He does this in every new country he visits. His immune system is a force to be reckoned with.

City art. Too bad this bar closes at 4PM like the rest of the city.

It took us a good 45 min of walking to city to find somewhere that was open at 6PM on a weeknight, let alone that served beer. What the hell? This made us and Benny quite upset!