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Slating the 11 times world surfing champion, Kelly Slater

I wince while watching a video replay of Kelly Slater jumping switch-foot between 6-foot barrels at Padang Padang. He’s so awesome and yet I’m so over it. This twenty-year long adulation has become a little schizophrenic of late, a little up and down; I think I have Slater Fatigue Syndrome (SFS). Not to be confused with tall poppy syndrome, SFS is directed more at Slater’s sparring partners – or lack of. Continue reading

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PNG Liberated

By Keri Algar

what: surfing png
where: new Ireland island, north east of mainland
when: Christmas/new year’s 2010/2011
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Surf, Art, Music & Woodfired Pizza: Happy Days book launch to support local charity S4C – Surfers for Cetaceans

An art-filled diary for surfers and nature lovers to be launched with live music and a special screening of famous surf photographer Ted Grambeau’s latest works at the Treehouse on Belongil Byron Bay on December 8, 2010.

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Exotic Iquitos Market

Everyday is market day in the Amazon jungle town of Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos is located downstream of the confluence of the  Ucayali and Marañón rivers, the two main headwaters of the Amazon River. There is love in the air of Iquitos! 2007

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Mexico Underwater 2005

When things on the surface get a little chaotic it’s nice to recall blowing bubbles in an world very far, far away.

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