Road Trip

 Well it's been a while since i did my last blog and since then I've been pretty busy..

We have had a pretty good run of waves up here and I've been trying to make the most of it ahead of the WQS events here at the start of the year. The first event we had was the Burleigh Breaka Pro -  we had some fun waves -  it was tricky Burleigh, not your typical Burleigh sand set up but still some fun waves..

I mananged to make a few heats there and finish up 17th overall which I was pretty ok about just because it might as well be a 6 star prime event the amount of big names that enter the event. I think they all use it as a warm up for the WCT event at Snapper, as i'ts the week before. I then had a week from then to get ready for the Quicky Pro Trials, which ended up getting held in the most perfect waves I think I have ever surfed in a comp. I was first heat of the event and didn't have a bad heat - got a few really fun barrells and waves but the other guys did to and I ended up bowing out unfortunately. I think I was more upset about not getting to keep surfing those waves.

I had a few weeks off then I was heading down to Newcastle for another 4 star WQS event. I decided to drive down with my girlfriend and make a bit of a road trip out of it and just test out equipment and get my sea legs really working before the comp. I scored some sick waves. My first stop was at my mates house Matt Jones in Yamba. I stayed the night there and got some fun beachies and the point as well. Then headed down the coast another few hours to Coffs Harbour whereIi stopped over quickly for a fun beachy session on my Foilz, and had the best fun surf I've had in a while. Then we kept heading south to my girlfriends home town of Cresent Head. I really wanted to get the point good but unfortunately the winds were wrong so I headed over to the back beach were I scored some super fun left wedges..

We stayed the night there then headed off early to go check Port Maquarie. I saw some super fun set ups but decided to keep trecking south to Forster.. And it was worth it i checked out Boomerang Beach and there was just the most playful peaks coming in everywhere and no one around. 

I'd had enough road tripping by now and decided to head down to the event at Newcastle. My cousins live right near the beach there so it was good to have a homely place to stay while I was down there. Unfortunately I wasn't down there for long, not having a great heat and getting a bit unlucky losing in the last 10 seconds of my heat but I guess that surfing. Still such a fun trip and I'm stoked I took the time to check everywhere out on the way down.

I heard about a comp up home on the weekend so I darted home to see if i could make up for my loss down here at Newy.  It wasn't a money event but there were some good prizes and stuff up for grabs and it was good to have a heap of heats and get back into the rhythm again. I ended up winning the student division and runner up in the open taking home a board and a few other things so I guess it was worth doing.

Latley I just been trying boards and fins and mucking round with my Go Pro camera on my jetski. Me and my mate took it to 4 foot straddie the other day and got some super fun stuff so I'm gunna try get some more and then start putting it up on the site.  So keep posted for some new footage..

Thanks heaps for reading

Corey