Immaculate

The incredible winter weather continues today. A sun baked morning down at Bondi with rich light and a small, but rideable 2 foot right hander in the middle.

Yesterday’s south swell has fallen thru. It wasn’t too bad yesterday on the low tide as hollow mini-pipes slapped against a very shallow bank. Gotta hate school holidays though…crowds were thick for a Monday…and to the high-school-15-year-old-Corey-Worthington-wanna-bees from upstairs that kept me up all night with your inebriated madness – didn’t sleep a wink – I’m kranky!

The forecast is for immaculate weather all week long. Yes, all week long. It’s warm enough to go to the beach (22 today) – not bad for peak winter. Swell will bottom out today and tomorrow, returning Thursday and Friday with a new south swell and northerly winds (perfect).

Completely Random facts about Aquabumps:

• Uge is pronounced yooj (not oggie), and yes my real name is Eugene (as in the dork in Grease – yes)
• “::” the double colons have no specific purpose for being there in the subject line of this email – I just used them years ago when this all started between mates…and If I drop them now it may spin people out
• This email newsletter has been going for 10 years…that’s before the blogging phenomena. No medal required. Was interesting times.
• Aquabumps is a made up word (daa) – and was the only domain I could get the .com for at the time that was decent and easy to spell (for most). This email didn’t have a name for many years.
• People email me all the time saying they’ve been subscribing for 8 years. You poor sods. Having to listen this uneducated ramble every day. I never said I was a writer.
• We shoot approximately 40-60 images a day and only 5 make it to the report
• Every image is shot at 21 megapixel RAW. That’s a huge file (24mb each or 70mb tif each!). I have more hard drive space than Google and Nasa combined.
• My father hasn’t got his head around what I do and still says to this day, “there might be a business in that email you send out”. I think he thinks he’s the only subscriber. (30,000 daily readers email and web combined)
• Boost Mobile bought Aquabumps’s first water housing in year 2001. For no reason at all really. Nice of them. A cheque just rocked up.
• Aquabumps uses Canon digi cameras, 1dsMkIII, 5dMKII with about 40 kilos of glassware. Also shoot on xpan hassleblads, fujugx617s and canon ixus’s

Just get a lot of questions on emails…so hopefully the above will clear a few.

Be sure to go outdoors at some stage today. Taboo to be indoors ::uge