This Sunday…the 8th, at the Alley (Currumbin), the Fish Fry is happenin. This is an opportunity to see and or ride a very special board…handcrafted with Aloha…by our Swaylock’s sage…Ambrose. Warning…many lives have been altered due to interaction with this Magic Craft.
roger
Naw Rog,
We’re to busy bickering over stupid sheet that has no boundries !
But,I’ll listen…
Herb
Any chance this board is gonna make it to the AB3 at the end of the month?
anything is possible…AB3???
Roger,
There’s another thread about the FF. I replied to Lennox (Steve) and said I was unsure whether I’ll make it t the FF. It’s about 50/50 at this stage. If he can’t make it up I’ll be down his way around easter.
What time were you going to be at the FF?
Bob
oh bouy!
to make the fish fry
oh Baby oh
remember when the
separation occurs
this travel board,
should one ask
as to its fish species,
Indeed is a variety
of perch,favored by
avian species when
chasing the curl line…
ride it well
and enjoy the joy
invested in this toy
spin a spell
as this board wishes to tell
stories of cliffs and dirt trails
and tropics and temperate
climbs and climes ,tales
of comraderie and diversity
urban and rural pockets
of this grand pacific
the ocean we share and
love deeply may it live
forever…
…ambrose…
a little orange dot in the
arial photo of the velzy paddle out
the travel board was there.
mahana now that she’s down under
I believe she has a few appointments
yet to fullfill before returning to california?
new zealand is only a hand span away on
my atlas…?
oh yeah cowabunga,stok-a-boka,
and hang five to come alive.
if Van stralen’s there
hand it to him and show him the date
it’s goin on 5 years old this fall…
next month is the aniversary of me meetin’
up w’him in waikiki
on my spring break 1968.
Ambrose,
Your stoke is beaming through cyber-space. Unless Steve is going to the FF or some other arrangments have been made, it is likely that the travel board will still be residing near a rock lined point south of the border. The cyclone heading down the Qld coast may be able to draw the board north of the border.
Bob
Hey Bob,
Should be 9:30 Q’time±…
Roger
Roger,
Might see you. At this stage my wife wants to go to the beach which means a later start. Is the TB still with Steve?
That trip to N may be worthwhile a bit later in the week.
Bob
how’d it go?
itchin to hear
is it? ,didit ?
could it?
has it?
will it?
the anticipation
tickles my immagination.
…and yet we glued som finger jointed paloweenia
2x10 paint grade lumber the last couple days
to quell my itch for information
of frying fish down unda…
…ambrose…
Ambrose,
Steve brought the board up. I am not sure if the board was surfed on the day but I could be wrong. Steve will look after the board until Easter when I plan to take it a bit further south on a week surfing trip. After that who knows.
Roger took a number of photos and spoke to a guy called Sam who said he picked mangos on Kauai and borrowed boards and learned from you. There were a few folks from Swaylocks there that I met. Feral dave had a stall and some fun looking & experimental boards and I met Dudly the mat rider, who not surprisngly isn’t called Dudley. There were also a number of non-fish boards. Tom W, valla surfboardss & Jason Oliver had spots with wooden boards, and some other folks who I didn’t know were also there. It was a nice mix of old and new, and not so new.
There were some ok waves and it was a fun, sunny day with the weather much better than predicted - the cyclone is still hovering further north.
I’m sure someone else will have something to add.
Bob
thanks bob.
…ambrose…
Hi Ambrose, the travel board is safe and well and living in spitting distance of a great warm water point break.
It’s well loved and cared for here.
Had a nice chat with Dick Van Straalen yesterday.
And an inspiring talk with a young fella called Sam who laid out the Ambrose version of the aloha spirit and made me aware of the special privilege and responsibility of being a care-taker for the travel board.
As you know Bob will come down at Easter time and pick the board up from me…in the meantime it’ll get some more go-outs here and plenty of attention.
Cheers Ambrose.
Steve
bitchin deluxe!
dudly perkins sent me some pictures
an spoke of sam nice to hear the raport
was amicable.
surf it well.
…ambrose…
Guess who’s back…Finally got my account back.
Thanks Swaylock!
Will be back later to post pics, if I can figure it out
DP
ah yes summertime by coltrane blasting upon finding thread
TB POWER
aahhhhhh
run down un
der
heard the words
working on the melody
struggling the neo ala
again today,
waters clean
cant complain
go run …
… ambrose…
heard you were there
mat concerto beneath
the southern cross .
Steve , were you there !?
Dammit , i just this minute remembered I meant to put up a little banner , ’ Swaylockers here ’ or some such .
I tended to hover around the Valla tent with Sage and Paul , Glyn and the packed lunch.
Heaps of cool boards and people , but I see I still missed a lot … can’t be everywhere at once I spose.
Seems to have morphed into more of an Anything But Three style thing …
I see Simon Anderson was there , too … one of my idols and I missed him !
Yea, I was there. Had a couple of go-outs and just as the midday sun was doing it’s thing, Roger produced a couple of chilled articles which went down a treat for a good bullshitt session.
Twas a fun day.
New travel board go-out: post cyclone Hamish OH pointbreak, ribs up the face from a devil wind. Got a couple of smooth high lines through the ribs. Like spearing a pterodactyl at pointblank range.
Loving this board more and more.
If and when I get back to the islands I’ll come and see Ambrose and ask him to build me another.
Would be a worthy mission…
The travel board I believe is feeling very much at home here in the southern hemi.
Herb Spitzer handed off the Magic Travel Board end o’ jan…thanks to Herb for Travel Bag that kept it safe