popeye turns 40 ! eno turns 43 .....

yep , pascal [capetown and london and paris and now perth , west australia resident !] hit the big 40 last week . he escaped to an “overseas island” [tried to keep it quiet , eh mate?1]

now 10,000 + people know …isn’t the internet public , eh ? hahahhh

he [and eno [‘sandgroper’] aren’t here at sways much any more , so here’s some ol’ ‘tribute’ photos , so you can remember what they look like …and ride …[a lot of these shots disappeared from photobucket when i started a new acccount]

cheers !

ben

pascal [‘popeye’] on the left … eno [‘sandgroper’] , right …

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it’s a wee bit hard to believe ian is a scientist , a pilot , and a teacher [as well as a ??responsible?? father ] , when he regularly exhibits THIS kind of behaviour eh ?!

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[ that’s my 7’er eno has …he normally rides around a 6’6 thruster]

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paz , with the speedneedle-made twinny …

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the 9’ mal …

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paz on the twinny …

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eno on the 7’er…

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company , to keep paz’s noah phobia at bay …

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$20 disposables do the water droplet thingy more than my digi camera , unfortunately …

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That water looks unbelievably warm… but I know I am fooled.

The more pics you post the more I want to come to West Oz. Some day.

…where is “goleta”??

cheers

ben

at the moment , the water temperature is still around 20 degrees C , but summer has just finished now … mind you , yesterday’s air temp was nearly 38 degrees [about 98 F , for the dinosaurs ]

Goleta California, just west of Santa Barbara

I love living here but need to do some traveling realllll bad. I just might have to take out a student loan for traveling purposes shhhhhhhhh

winter is just about over here, damnit. water is about 58°F (am i a dinosaur?) and the air temp was low 60’s today.

Aus switched to the metric system in the 60’s, so only ahem older people use degrees fahrenheit, inches etc, i think that’s what he meant by dinosaur.

Im a tradesman working in a steelworks, where most of our equipment is very old, or imported, so inches etc is no worries for me, but temperature always gets me confused.

If I had it my way the “english” system would not exist. Metric/SI units make my life at least 10 times easier. The only thing inches and feet are useful for are surfboard dims

Saw the fish you posted, didnt think it was ugly, liked the spray job. I guess pics might not do it justice though. Did you get those fins from Larry?

Hey Chip, yes, grown men up to no good! (…lying down on the job…)

So popeye is 40! Say hi to him for me, and I I’m glad that twinny still gets an outing…surprised you have’nt don him a "favour and turned it into a 7finner …

Josh

www.joshdowlingshape.com

I see what you did there.

…,.,…,will do !

now he has two young kiddies , he don’t gat in the water much any more

but i will persist

surfing keeps us sane

For some reason, every time I see a picture like this I think of Jaws.