DAY 8.
Dorrigo's
a magic place to wake up. We parked on the side of the road around half
way up the mountain in a little turnout spot just off the road. Its an
early start again and we gotta get some eats into us before hitting the
road. Stop at the waterfall to have break with a view. Its been ages
since I've skated this one so I'm really looking forward to shown the
boys down.
Dillon
hurt his ankle at the Nimbin sk8 park yesterday, nothin major but he
feels the need to chill and get it right for race day! Wise man. Kyle
belts off on a solo run while JoshE and myself chill big time on the
waterfall run down the mountain. Its such an epic road. So many rad
turns, its smooth and fast. Its easy to get ahead of yourself but just
around the bend will always be a reminder that this one is pretty
gnarly. Plenty of bikes trucks and cars use this road so yeah, on a
weekend, its busy as.
Punch
out 3 runs getting all the goods and move on to the beautiful little
town of Bellingen for coffee and lunch. We hit up the sk8 park after
kai. Its a rad little jam park with some interesting features. It was at
this moment we had a car pull up next to the RV and 4 groms get out
frothing that the Landyachtz Team were in town. They came over and met
us all. We smashed out some autographs for the crew and gave them all a
tour T. After some pics and mondo stoke on the 2013 range, we said our
HooRoo's and hit the road for Duddy's house on the Central Coast.
Its
a long drive again. Best part of 5 hours but we finally rock up to the
bottle shop just near Duddy's house 10 minutes before closing time! The
boys have been wanting beer the whole drive so they are fukin pumped!
Get to Duddy's and he's cooked us up some pizza so we sit out in his man
cave, eat, drink and get merry to the comic Jim Jefferies! Its been a
great day!
DAY
9.
Had a sweet day planned. It's to be a day of heavy lurking until we
get to the Hop shop for LHL. Started by heading into the wilderness of
the central coast to a place called Snapper Point and Frazer beach.
These spots are off the beaten track and it was the hell tranq drive in
there through fern covered forests floors and ghost gums reaching for
the sun. Get to the end of Snapper Point and look down at the features
of the coastline. Right there before me was a mondo natural cave. We had
to get a shot from inside that. Thats the mission for the next 2 hours.
Hike down the cliffs and get to the cave. It wasn't all easy hiking to
get the shot. The last part was a rock jump down into the water. This
was epic watching Strike jump off the ledge. Guff and Jaco wrapped their
cameras in dry bags and followed suit. 
After
it was straight to get some eats and then the 90minute journey into
Sydney and the Hop Shop. Hopkin is Australia's largest longboard retail
store and has done so much to support the scene here in Sydney, also
branching to Qld with team riders. The Shops had a small down grade due
to the hard times of the retail market but u wouldn't know it. Its still
such a legit store and now that its a little more together, it feels
that no one misses out on anything. The second level of the store boasts
a mini ramp while the third level has a cafe for all a skaters needs.
Its
good to hang and session here with some of the local kids that won't be
able to make it out for tomorrows Pro signing. LHL was on the cards but
apparently its pretty hard to find the hockey sticks here down under.
Hop improvised and bought some kanes. Good man but it was gonna be a
little hard without the length of a stick so we opted to continue
jamming the mini. Kyle threw down and was trying to rock-to-fakie the
extension. Its tight up there. So much so he put the nose of his Loco33
into the ceiling!
Bounce
and catch up with all the other crew round at me Jacko's house. Good to
see all the punters from the other side of the pond. Lookin like a good
turn out for the Pro signing!
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