Wow! The 1st of September - I can't believe we've been away since the 16th of April. We're having so much fun - and we've still got nearly 8 months left... Rock on!
We woke this morning and went to fix ourselves some breakfast in the kitchen. We had some toast and then went around the road to see about doing a surf lesson. We've heard from different people along the way that 1770 is the cheapest place on the East Coast for surfing - and the company are also pretty cool, so we thought we'd check it out!
The travelers were right - the surfing was a bargain! For $16.50 we got a 3 HOUR surf lesson and free wetsuit. Me and Nikki signed up and after being sized up for our suit, took a walk down to the beach with the other 'surfers'.
For the first half-an-hour, our instructor taught us things he thought we should know about surfing in 1770 and then let us loose in the water. We had great fun - I think I enjoyed it more than Nikki. She was getting really frustrated because when we had a lesson in Hawaii she could do it no problems, but here she was having trouble standing up. We had 14 people in our group and only 12 boards, which meant after a while we were supposed to give someone else a turn. In about 2-and-a-half hours, I managed to stand up about 10 times - and managed to surf all the way into the beach about twice... not bad I 'spose!
This afternoon, when our surf lesson was over, we did some food shopping and then hung around the hostel - we were exhausted! We had sausage and egg sarnies and then took a walk into the small town for a look around.
For tea this evening, the hostel was cooking spaghetti bolognese - and we thought we'd give it a try because the guy had been cooking it since about 11am this morning! Afterwards we just chilled out in this very cool hostel!
Catching waves... catching a cold more like!
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