About As Aussie As I Can Get
A half planned Australia Day long weekend saw us doing nothing...
Half pre-planned bbq at someones house was cancelled due to some unforeseen circumstances.
Didn't even do the usual fireworks watching in the city, nor the join-the-fren-from-Perth clubbing.
We had beautiful weather through-out, so what better way than to spend the day at the beach?
And off to Manly beach we went, that Sunday, along with the millions of other aussie beach-goers.
We had booked a 2 hour surfing lesson, me and Peggy. Thinking that it was early in the morning, especially the morning after Australia Day, everyone would probably be still asleep or hungover. But noOoOoOoOoo! Seems everyone was out and about.
Manly beach was buzzing!
Even though i have had some kinda surf lessons from frens back in Perth, we never really got to the part where i'm standing on the board on a wave.
I was reminded of how hard it was to bring (drag, rather) the board to the shore. It's twice the size of me (apparently the bigger the board the easier it is - having heard that i had to pick the largest board of coz, but also without thought because i had a hard time moving the damn thing across the sand!)
We started off just getting on and off the board in the water and riding the wave lying down.
And then we did the standing up thing. And i'm proud to say that after 1 hour and a half, i was standing! Yep, that's me riding the wave all the way to the beach. But that's not without a few bruises here and there, a couple of cuts on the legs, and sand rashes on my knees.
And of coz, sunburnt - that's a given.
Will definately go again. Next time, i'd make sure there was someone there to snap up (just to prove i ain't lying!), i'd wear a long sleeved wetsuit and be more weary of ppl riding into me and vice versa.
