Poland and a PhD

No longer the view from my window

The last of the campfires

Late night paddling

Walking the plank

Hopefully plenty more summer loving

Returned home from Poland this afternoon, after a great couple of weeks. Great kids, great times and plenty more friendships from round the world made. Stoked to be home too though, Especially since a letter of acceptance to a PhD I applied for a couple months back was sitting in the hallway. Buzzing! Looks like Thom's spending another 3 years about the North Coast and joins Paud and Pete as Irish PhD studying bloggers!

First of the summer sessions...

Back lit line.

Getting down...

Cheating 5 (Pity about the lack of focus...)

Today officially marked the beginning of summer, both in regards to the weather picking up and me back surfing from home. Being based 24 miles from my closest wave compared to 1.4 miles during term time always changes things up abit. So due to the decent weather and what looks like the last bit of swell for a while the Awog and I packed up after work and hit the closest and least crowded wave we could. Fortunately we were greeted by some fun rights with only one guy out (pictured above), which we enjoyed long after the sun had set. Tonight was also the first time I'd surfed the fish with the new fins on. Really did make such a difference. The substantially smaller size makes the board feel alot looser and alot easier to throw into turns. Gonna be fun getting to know it alittle better!