So as everyone had finished their assessment (who was due to do it), today was the first day everyone was more chilled and relaxed for a little while. My group was surfing at 9:30am so I had a bit of a lay in and got all my stuff together. The waves at Arrawarra were crap so we went off to surf Woolgooga town beach. Everyone was pretty excited because as a group we Havnt been taken to many different spots. The surf at Woolgooga was ok - we surfed a sandbank whi...

What a day.. I am now a fully qualified, internationally recognised level 1 surf instructor. I got up and had breakfast in time for a 9am start to our day of assessment. All morning we did theory about how to be an instructor, about techniques to help people etc. Straight after lunch in pairs we had to present a 'lesson plan' for a hypothetical situation/lesson we were given. I was paired up with Lenny and it went really well, gaining us some good feedback from ...

I forgot to add to yesterday's post. Yesterday morning before our lesson, one of the guys that works here asked me for a hand. We went down the beach and he showed me a live turtle had been washed up! The 2 of us and another local we recruited carried this huge turtle back down to the sea, and it just swam off. During our surf later on I saw a turtle swimming around, so im hoping it was the one we saved.. (Pictures on my camera) Last night was strange but absolu...

After getting back to camp yesterday after the drive we all just dropped our stuff and went straight out for a surf. It was lumpy but pretty big and good fun, plus it was just great to be back in the water after a few days.. We had our lesson at 7am and waking up was a real chore! The weekend has started to catch up with everyone. I had a really good surf though - it was about 3-4ft and clean. To start with I just fell off every wave I caught but after half an ...

So Dan and I got up about 8am this morning to get showered etc, and start the hunt for the missing Lasse and Lenny! As we were signing out of our room at reception a rough looking Lenny appeared. It turned out he had managed to wangle a room at Nomads somehow too, quite how in the state he was in I will never know! That only left a missing Lasse.. We walked down to leave our stuff in the car, to see someone sprawled out in an impossible position in the car. Clo...