We had a great week in Byron Bay, we stayed in a cabin at Belongil Beachouse mostly just relaxing and enjoying a week away. I went surfing every day with the last two being the best, and it was great to swap the 13′C water in Victoria to the 21′C waves in Byron. Our friends Tess and Nye came down from Brisbane and stayed Saturday night, and on Sunday we went up to Brisbane and watched Nye and the others in “Timbah” play an afternoon gig

Last week I handed in my last (hopefully) paperwork to Immigration to get my permanent visa here in Australia, so now I just have to wait until they get back to me. Hopefully we don’t get called in for an interview because I’ve had enough off all the work involved in all this visa business. It might take a while before I hear anything though as it stated on the paperwork I received that they aim to complete 75% off the applications within 6 months…

On Saturday I went down past Torquay with Tony (a mate from TAFE) for some surfing, it was a great day with heaps of waves around. We had our first surf at Point Addis with some nice 4ft+ waves and after some fish n chips we met up with Matt and tim who went down the night before, Tony and Matt had a good surf with me behind the camera catching them getting a few nice ones and getting pounded by a solid 6 wave set…

I’m just back after having my bucks night before the wedding, it was actually a whole weekend where we went down the coast for a surf trip. Unfortunately I didn’t get to surf too much as a managed to dislocate my shoulder AGAIN! on the first day but we had lots of fun anyway. Check out the photo’s in my photo gallery .
I met up on Saturday morning in Geelong with Matt (my best man) and his housemate Matt, they had hired a car and we planned to go down the coast for some surf before meeting up with the rest of the guys to hit the town later. We stopped at the factory shops in Torquay on the way and had a quick not very good surf before getting down to Lorne and checking in to our surprisingly nice backpackers. After unloading some stuff we headed down to one off Matt’s favourite surf breakes and it looked quite alright even if it got fairly close to the rocks as it was low tide. We headed out with the other Matt staying on the rocks taking photos, Matt got the first two waves before I found my first one, I had a good ride but just as I pulled off I instinctively grabbed my board to get back out faster, unfortunately I grabbed it with my dodgy left arm and as I went down my arm was pulled up and that was it, off to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. 3hours, $150 and some crazy drugs later I was back into action and we went to Lorne hotel to meet up with the rest of the guys who had now made it down. We had a nice dinner and continued the night downstairs at the Pub, the doctor had assured me that there was no problems for me to drink a bit after the drugs but that I would probably fall asleep after two beers. I proved him terribly wrong a lasted till 2am when the pub closed and then back to the backpackers to watch Swedens first depressing game of the world cup, 0-0 against Trinidad and Tobago (I have to admit that I fell asleep a while during second half though) and going to bed around 4am. The next day we went for a drive down the coast, Matt went for a surf and I took photos before heading back home. Even though not everything went as planned it was a good weekend and luckily it is a long weekend so I don’t go back to work until Wednesday so my shoulder should be sort of allright by then (I’m off buying a strap for it tomorrow…)

Easter is almost over but I hope you all had a nice time and ate a lot of eggs and chocholate we did (at least chocolate) Bec and I went down to Geelong to meet up with Meg and finish the invites on Wednesday, it went fine until Meg’s printer broke but it’s all sorted now and we are just about to send them. On Thursday we went down to Torquay for a surf before Bec headed back to Melbourne and for a little staff party. I stayed down another night and had some great surfs, I also went to soccer practise on Thursday so in two days I did more excersise than I usually do in two weeks. At the end of my second surf on Thursday my triceps cramped up every paddle I took so I really surfed as much as my body could handle. It’s not every day you have 4ft perfect surf and all the time you want to go surfing.
On Saturday I had to pay. I was so sore and my body so exhausted that it was really hard to focus on anything as all my energy went in to rebuilding my exhausted body, but it was definitely worth it! Today I feel fine again and really want some more surf, I might head down to Torquay on Tuesday again for Anders Birthday party, we’ll see…

After a few geeky posts here on my blog it’s now back to reality! Bec and I went down to Jan Juc for two nights, staying at our old house as we had a few days off together, it was great being back, relaxing and meeting friends. We went surfing both days, I had more fun the first day because the waves where a bit bigger but Bec liked the second day better because it was sunny and the waves where nicer and cleaner. Bec’s really improving in her surfing so now she’s sometimes the one suggesting a surf, both days we ended up at Torquay Surf beach, not really the favourite for any of us but you can’t controll the waves. I went and said hi to all the soccer guys and also met up with Nick, a good friend I met at the surf school who I haven’t really seen since I got back. Bec spent one night in Geelong with Meg fixing up the wedding invites so they are almost done. The weather is still pretty warm for this time of the year so it was great getting out of the city, even if we live in a very green part of the city and close to the beach it’s still so much nicer down the coast.

Got up pretty early tonight to drop Bec of at the hospital and pick up Matt for a surf. None of us thought the surf would be any good but it turned out to be really nice, 3ft offshore. We ended up going to “impossibles” a spot just east of Torquay, it’s more of a longboard wave especially as we got there on high tide but it was still really nice and my shoulder survived the test even if I could feel that it’s not 100% yet. Now it’s time for a late breakfast an maybe another surf later.

Tomorrow it’s back to Sweden again but this time it’s only 3 week until I get to see Bec again as she is coming to Sweden for Christmas.

— Update 17.30 —

Our second surf wasn’t as good as the first one. The wind had picked up so the waves weren’t as good and I managed to get a cut on the side of my foot from the fins of my board and had to get 4 stiches at the hospital. Everything is fine though, only tissue damage, I should keep it elevated today and tomorrow so I’ll try to scam an uppgrade on the flight

Yesterday we had over 30′C, very nice as long as you where at the beach but a little bit to hot to do anything else. Me and Bec went for a bike ride to a nice beach and spent a couple of hours there which was really nice (Bec was a bit hungover after our Halloween party the night before, I was fine as i fell asleep at 9 o’clock).

When we got home I took my board and went down to the closest surf beach, Jan Juc, and Bec came down and worked a bit more on her tan. The waves were pretty small (1-2ft) but it was nice to get out in the water and have a little surf again after 2 1/2 months without it. It felt a bit weird and I was a little bit scared to stuff up my shoulder again but it was ok, after about 20min my legs started cramping up, probably from dehydration and our bike ride earlier so it ended up being a pretty short surf.

Last night we went for dinner at ‘Growlers’ (the restaurant where Bec worked before), when she did her last shift last week the owner gave her a free dinner for two as a good bye present. We had a really nice time but we where both a bit to hot to really enjoy it 100%, after dinner we went past ‘Ripe’, a little bar in Torquay, to listen to one of my friends DJ’ing, because he will do the music at our wedding and we wanted to listen to him “in action’. The bar was almost empty so he didn’t work very hard but he has some good music so it’ll probably be fine (and free!)

Check out a crazy attempt to winter boogie boarding at Bells Beach HERE!, it’s a classic. Warning!! contains nudity!?!

My little vegetable garden is starting to grow. Carrots, onions and parsely is popping up and I planted some tomatoes last week.

The surf’s been great the last couple of days and my shoulder and knee are allright so I’ve been surfing 5 days in a row now

I’m back online, we finally got our phone connected. The new nr is +61 (0)3 5261 3214. This morning I got up at 5.30!! to go surfing, it was still dark as the sun doesn’t rise till about 6.40 but when we got in the water at Bells Beach around 6.15 it was light enough. Had a great surf but later I had to have a little afternoon snooze.

Had a great surf at Bells beach this morning, 5ft and offshore (for you none surfers that means perfect waves of about 4m height). We are working on the phone connection to the house but as always when you deal with state owned companies it takes quite a while, anyway I’m great and are enjoying the summer. On thursday me and Bec are going to Melbourne ond the Austraian Open in Tennis, should be a great day.