March 2011
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Tsunami paddle out
26/12/2010 Today its been 6 years since the 2004 Tsunami hit numerous countries across Asia and turned peoples lives upside down. Sri Lanka was one of the worst hit and although you can still see some of the damage today it seems that they have worked hard to get themselves up and running again. Every boxing day at Hikkaduwa some of the local boys invite locals and tourists alike to paddle out and...
Xmas day 2010
25/12/2010 Woke up early still feeling pretty drunk from the night out in Hikka involving sparklers during the power cut, ring of fire (with a whole 3 people), gate jumping at vibrations and the standard late night rotis.
So i draged Allanna out of bed and blared Frosty the snowman out of my speakers outside the boys room. We got ur santa hats on and stumbled down the beach and paddled out in 1ft...
Thunderstorm at Hikka
20/12/2010 After my first pretty shocking surf (cut knee, cut foot) just another surf in the day of Candy, I thought my second surf might be better. But 10 minutes after i paddled out the front at Hikka the sky clouded over, it went dark and started spitting rain. The next thing we heard was booming thunder coming towards us. At this point I was in two minds as to stay in the water or not and then...
