Splendiferous
It was a comfortable morning with sublime sunshine, warmer weather, early light, and small yet surfable two-footers. Fridays are chaotic around here, so you need a positive outlook to paddle out – there’ are humans everywhere! I mean, EVERYWHERE! It’s 22 degrees today, just superb. Light winds and endless clear skies are coming up. This […]
C A L M
What a good start to the day…the small waves continue and the sunshine is abundant. This will all change tomorrow when rain arrives and a thumpin’ new south swell. Super windy on Saturday afternoon (and big) but next week should be fun when it all calms down. The unstoppable Slater just won Fiji WCT tour […]
Numbers
5,000 daily Aquabumps emails over 12 years, approximately 250,000 frames shot on 15 cameras using 23 lenses in 5 different water housings, 12 trips to the Mentawais, 2 to the Maldives, a weekend in Thailand, 3 x Singapore(?) visits, 3 trips to crystal clear Fiji, 2 trips to Hawaii, 15 trips to Bali, the Kimberley’s, […]
Where the hell is summer?
It’s not often that rain hinders my morning shoot so much, that I have to show you something else to distract you from your busy day. But hang on, 3 days of rain in a row? It’s real wet and grey outside. Welcome to the first day of summer kids! Where the hell is it […]
tsunami in Samoa
The swell has dropped a gear or so, but surface quality has improved thankfully. Bondi is breaking around 2-3 foot, and a shallow south end bank was starting to switch on – and so did a powerful rip that sucks you out to New Zealand. We’re expecting this dead south swell to drop right off […]
Liquidity
To end our Fijian sojourn we’ve got another brilliant day…the water has been clear, but today was the clearest – immaculate. Underwater you can see everything, everywhere… We surfed a spot up the reef with no one around and peaky 3 footers (the odd 4 foot set). It was a swell magnet drawing any available […]
Bula
Bula. No waves here in Fiji today. Pretty much flat and a bit of wind (should be right for the kites later). To keep everyone away from the bar we’ve distracted them with underwater activities and a few photos sessions. Waves will be back tomorrow so it’s a good opportunity to let the sunburn settle […]
Fijian Blues
Aquabumps is going to be broadcast from the little island of Namotu this week (that’s Fiji). It’s heaven over here. The colours of this place are insane. Clearest blue water in the world I’d say. Sometimes I’d be shooting something (like the boat shot) and even I can’t believe the fluoro hues that are flash […]
Patience
If you had bad timing you could think it was pretty much flat down at Bondi this morning. If you were patient enough to wait 15-20 minutes a wave would appear in the 2 foot range. The swell is still very east, so Bondi won’t be attracting the best of it…go to Maroubra, Whaley, Manly…stuff […]
Aquatica
The rain is bucketing down this morning and the beach is deserted. Scrappy 2 foot mush on offer down at Bondi – not really worth a surf. Raining tomorrow as well. Didn’t get any decent shots this morning so I dug through the archives from recent trip to Fiji – where the skies are blue, […]
