Video: Ocean Whitewater Thrills and Surfing Spills
I don’t often paddle solo but with all my team-mates otherwise unavailable, I took to my local rocks knowing that today’s conditions would be lumpy. A direct easterly 1.5m swell…
Category Archives: Surfing
Neon Night Surfing at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Before cars took it upon themselves to smash my body up a few times, my preferred water activity was surfing. I grew up in South Australia where the frigid waters…
Video Post: Big Wave Freestyle Kayak Surfing
If you’ve noticed I’ve been a little slack with my posts of late it’s because I’ve spent this past week traveling and paddling through Canada and the USA. I’ve got…
A Week Off Work Means a Week On The Water
Due to speaking and press commitments, I took a week or so off work to launch my book, The Fat Paddler. Fortunately most days had a window of opportunity for…
Rock, Roll and Rescue with Team Fat Paddler
With a huge low pressure system sitting off Australia’s east coast, temperatures plummeted, rain poured down and the ocean swell jacked up to a massive 6 metres. Daily weather warnings…
Q&A with Cmdr Eric Soares, Tsunami Rangers, on Kayak Surfing and Rock Gardens
The Tsunami Rangers are well know for their crazy antics in big surf, wild rock gardens and surfing in caves. This band of renegade paddlers spent many a year playing…
Ocean Whitewater Aussie Styles – Surfing Canoes
Some time back I met a great couple of Aussie canoe fans online and hooked up for a paddle on the flooded Colo River (where we were involved in a…
Video: Kayak Surfing, Tsunami Ranger Styles
Sydney’s weather today – ocean swell up to 3 metres, westerly gale force winds, coastal warnings for “large swell breaking dangerously onshore”. These conditions are dangerous and will keep many…
Video: Rock Surfing with FP and Gelo
Beautiful weather called for an early morning paddle, with Lt. Gelo and I both keen to get amongst the rocks. After a quick paddle from Sydney Harbour Kayaks to Grotto…
Tsunami Rangers Greatest Hits Mash-Up
I’ve been as excited as a fat kid with a cupcake all week with the release of the Beastie Boys long-awaited new album, HOTSAUCECOMMITTEEPARTTWO. I’ve been a fan of the…
Sunday Sunset Surfing Sessions
I’m usually an early morning paddler so I don’t see many sunsets from the water, but I received an invite for an evening paddle from my close mate Nat (a…
More Tiderace Fun with The Hurricane Riders
There’s just something about tiderace footage that gets my adrenaline running. And no-one seems to love it more than those crazy Canadians! Here’s some more fun in the rush of…
Dee Why’s mad surf paddler
My mate Doug from WozThatYou.com hit the beach at Dee Why this morning and captured some brilliant shots of a mad paddle-surfer carving up the early-morning waves. According to Doug,…
Surf Paddlers with www.WozThatYou.com
Doug, A mate of mine on the northern beaches of Sydney, gets up before sunrise each morning and lugs his impressive camera gear down to whatever beach is working best….
