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Thought of another positive of these short evenings - you get to shoot in great evening light/surf and get home while you're still in the good books with the Mrs. No more having to wait until 10 pm for the sun to go down. Eveyone's happy. Brilliant.

Bon Voyage!

See ya later squirt!

Aren't short days brilliant!

For me it's because it fits in quite nicely with my two favorite pastimes, sleeping and watching TV. Isn't it great that it's acceptable again to be straight up lazy. Gone are the summer days when you feel you have to pretend to be motivated about something. Winter is here, nice one, see ya next May!

Hometime

Been nice to get a few waves nice and close to home of late.

Here's Dylan Buckley accelerating of the bottom of a fun little one.

Am I bothered?

To be honest, regarding surfing, I haven't really been for the last year or so. Now i'm not talking about the whole photography thing, no doubt i've been amping on that but when it comes to actually paddling out myself i've been unenthused to say the least. I could never come to any great conclusion as to why either, which was the really frustrating part about it. After all the years spending every second thinking about it and every last cent you own on it how can i be "just not all that into it anymore". On a recent trip to Clare, however, my usual petrol contributors flaked on me; no worries, I thought, I'll head up by myself. This turned out to be a rather refreshing plan once I realised i'll be able to take my time at try out a whole host of things, photography wise, that have been knocking around in my head without the hassles that group trips inevitably bring. The day however didn't pan out quite the way I had planned. About half the way through I went for a quick surf. Things went surprisingly well. I am of course in ridiculously good shape, in fact when i popped up for the first time i nearly creased my board. Once up and going everything seemed to click into place and so started shredfest 2011. After a while i began hearing murmurings from the shore and soon enough crowds had gathered to watch, cheering in joy "Pete is back!"

Ok so that's not exactly how it happened, but i did have a wicked good surf which turned into two and then three surfs before the day was out leaving me as amped as ever. Not too sure what this means. It's great fun surfing with your mates and a quality session is always added to if you can share.....blah blah blah

Is it me or is surfing better when you aren't with a group a friends?

Here's a few snaps i did mange on the trip. A few waves and a few ol timers!

Tonnta Issue 10

Tonnta Issue 10 is about to hit the shelves. Should be available before the weekend. Make sure you get out there and grab a copy. Looks like the best one yet!!