I arrived in LA last Thursday but had bad Wi-fi most of the time so that this is the first post after a while. After Heike picked me up at the airport (finally :-)) we had two days together in LA spending on sight seeing and then moved on to […]
Yesterday I left O’ahu and flew to the Big Island (Hawai’i). I will stay here for 6 days. 2 nights at the West Coast in Kailua-Kona and 3 nights at the East Coast in Hilo.After my arrival yesterday I drove south of the Island to see what the island looks […]
Since 3 days I am at the North Shore of Oahu. For me surfing is at the moment just possible at Pua’ena Point. All other spots are pretty big at the moment. The last days the surf along the 7 mile miracle was between 10 to 15 feet. That was […]
Last Sunday I won nearly a whole day by flying to Hawaii. I landed in Honolulu and stayed in Waikiki for 3 days. Today I went up to the North Shore and visited Kailua and the Pillbox Trail before heading north. My days in Honolulu looked pretty much the same: […]
First part of my sabbatical is nearly over. I went back from Jan Juc / Torquay to Melbourne yesterday and started packing for my next trip to Hawaii. It was an awesome time here in Australia with lots of surfing (more than 20 days), sightseeing and traveling to Tasmania, Phillip […]
Last weekend my last 2 weeks in Australia started. During my 4 weeks here I had 2 weeks where the surf was not so good. So I decided to start one full week of surfing and headed down to Torquay on Monday. Monday – The surf in Torquay was not […]
Having family also in Tasmania makes it a must 😉 hopping over to Tasmania as well. So done last weekend. Our plan was to explore the north and east part of Tasmania as good as we can within a long weekend of three days. We stayed in Launceston which is […]
When I stayed at the Island Accommodation on Phillip Island I was convinced to go surfing on Monday morning again. But as surfing is a weather dependent sport I had to rethink my plans as I got up early and saw now waves against the predictions. I decided to head […]
One week ago I traveled to Phillip Island for the weekend to see how the surf looks like on “the other side” of Melbourne. I checked out two surf beaches “Surf Beach” and “Cape Woolamai” on the island and the surf beach of Kilcunda at the old Trestle Bridge. Unfortunately […]
Yesterday I went to Jan Juc for the first perfect surf session. Only a little bit of wind, sunshine and perfect 1 m waves. That’s how I wanted it to be. At the end of the day it were 6.4 km of paddling and more than 2 hrs in the […]