Yesterday, December the 12th, I agreed to help Johnny Ma
ritz take a bunch of Jewish kids who have never bodyboarded
for a lesson at sunrise beach. Anyway after taking a few p
hoto's of the lesson, I put the camera back in the car, und
er some bodyboards. I then locked the car and went to go pu
sh the kids into some nice fun 1ft waves. After about 2 hrs
of helping these guys to learn to boogie, Johnny said that
it would be cool to get some more pics of them, so I went
back to the car to get the camera... this is where it all w
ent wrong! As I caught sight of my car my car, my heart san
k. The front door wasn't properly closed, and the back door
was slightly open! My heart started to race, and as I appr
oached, I saw that my 2 brand new science boards, cell phon
e, uninsured Eos 400d camera, and the borrowed 300mm lens,
where all gone. As I got even closer I noticed that my fron
t passenger door was open. I ran around the car, and saw th
at there was a black guy lying passed out in my car with an
empty beer bottle in his hand. All my shit was gone and th
e first thing I wanted to do is grab this guy and smack him
in the face, and then find out where all my stuff was. The
n I realised I was going to need help to interrogate him an
d try find my stuff. My mate Deon came to my aid and as I w
as about to punch the guy in the face, I saw, out of the co
rner of my eye, MY car parked right next to what I thought
was my car... the drunk guy had the same car as me... same
colour, same condition, same everything... except all my st
uff is fine, lying in my car! phew... breath a sigh of reli
ef. I am such an idiot!!! The drunk guy is still passed out
none the wiser. I am really glad I still have my stuff and
that I didn't deck some random drunk guy!

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Went to the reseve and was convinced to bolt a Sony Hady
cam in a Sony Splashack to my head using somekind of cheap
ass helmet.  The idea being to hit record and get tube
d... what the didn't say is that the thing weighed about as
much as 3 large bricks, added about 50cm of height to my h
ead, and would strangle the fuck out of me whenever I got w
orked... which was often.  Much fun nonetheless and so
me okish foothage the result.  I am so keen to get it
right in nice sunny conditions next time... hopefully with
cats and dogs not being blown horizontally across the horiz
on... like last time....  30 knot winds suck!

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