Scarfini Pro 2012

A mixture of tension and excitement has been building up for weeks awaiting the 7* Scarfini Pro contest on the Bluff, with some of the worlds top athletes competing for the title of the Scarfini Pro Champion.This is a mobile event, so weather depending, it takes place at the either Anstey's Beach or the Scarfini Household. The event contains a mixture of dressing up, playing weird drinking games, doing some form of olympic aqua aerobics, trying our best not to drown when we "surf", traumatising every single other person on the beach with our ridiculous antics, and then a whole bunch of other disgustingly beautiful chaotic moments. We were all winners in our hearts.

Group photo

Before we got kicked off the beach

Chris training hard

Wade doing the opposite of training hard

Jay and Mark warming up

The start of the aqua-aerobic olympics

I won

Group photo, round 2

Cape Town - Vic Bay

CAPE TOWN:

I went to Cape Town in August to surf the Western Province Open. I was kind of excited to surf a contest - it had been a while, and I'd been trying to train for it. ha. I stayed in Table View with Heather, Nikita and Tash for the first few days, just to be close to the contest. 

Day 1, Friday : I arrived at Cape Town International airport at 8am. I thought that everyone else was arriving at that time too. It turned out that they were only coming at 8pm. haaa. Anyway... I got a shuttle to the accommodation with the most talkative driver in the world. It was right on the beach but it was freezing and the waves were terrible, so I spent the day reading, watching TV, and lurking next to a heater. After such a stressful day, I managed to find the energy to go on a food hunt. The mall was quite a distance away so I tried the restaurant at the accommodation, called the Blowfish. It just wasn't doing it for my high standards. I looked at a menu and realised that i could probably walk to the mall in the time I would need to answer the waiter's 1000 questions : What meat do you want? Which cut would you prefer? How many grams would you like? How would you like it done? blaah blaah and all of that rubbish. He kindly sent me away when I asked for a toasted sandwich...

 View from my room

Day 2, First day of the contest: The contest was held at Table View and the waves weren't looking too bad. I made it through my heats! :) Yay. Spent the day with Tarryn, Sarah, Faye, Chantelle and Tanika, most of the time just eating at Primi. haha. Ty came to visit :)

Day 3, Last Day of the contest: Rain, wind and hideous weather. We woke up early and had to drive through to melkbos because some rather large swell decided to come hang out. It was the most messy and hideous conditions I'd ever seen. Siesa... I was first heat of the day and I got knocked out. I only caught a proper wave with 2 minutes left in the heat. It didn't end well, but I think I learnt from it. I hope. ha.

Melkbos

Day 4, SSA girls training camp: Surfing South Africa organised a womens training camp for 16 of us at Sports Science. I was having a heart attack because I'd never been to Sports Science before, and everyone telling me how hard it was didnt help at all... It didnt turn out too bad, even though we got there at 8am and left at 6pm. I'd like to go again one day and hopefully do better though. 

When we finally got back, Tarryn and I tried to convince everyone to come out with us. They were being lame. haha. David took Tarryn and I out to The Shack and Mercury for Jono's birthday. It was fun :)

WOODSTOCK, GORDON'S BAY, MUIZENBERG:

I spent a few days with Ty while I was in Cape Town. Ty, Jay, Simon, and Jayson were all moving into a new house in Muizenberg so I just helped them move a few things around. ha. This meant carting stuff from Simons woodstock house to Gordon's bay to store it for a few days, and then back to Muizenberg to finally move in. Missssions, but it was still cool :) They've now moved into their Muizenberg house and its amaaazing!

Driving to Gordon's Bay

Little Rex

Gordon's Bay

Gordon's Bay

Gordon's Bay

View of Muizenberg

VIC BAY:

I'd been stressing for a few days about how on earth I was going to get to Vic Bay from Cape Town for the Billabong Junior Contest. I finally made a plan, and roadtripped with Chantelle and QJ to Vic Bay. We hadn't seen eachother for a while and spoke for 4 hours straight. haha :)

The Vic Bay contest has always been one of my favourites. Its always so much fun and even though it's the smallest place in the world, you'll always find a way to keep entertained. I stayed in the Vic Bay Surf Backpackers again this year, I like staying there because it's right on the promenade and close to everyone else. I saw Morag for the first time in ages and I thought I was going to cry when I saw her I was so happy! :) 

For the contest there was some of the biggest swell I'd ever seen before. It was maaasssiiivveee. I heard a group of guys say the one wave was over 12ft. yaaay. So of course there had to be a few lay days, but luckily the swell calmed down (not really at all) on the last day so they could finish the contest. I made the final and came 3rd. I would've liked a better result, but heeey. It was still a good event...

At night, just to keep up with Vic Bay tradition, everyone got together for a few drinks and to chill. Billabong organised a little braai in the caravan park one night which was amazing - They got Jeremy Loops to come play (too good!) for an hour or two, and afterwards a group of us ended up going to Carouse. Sis. 

Ok I'm sick of rambling now. I'm sure you get by now that it was a good trip.

Roadtripping

Vic bay still on a small day

Muizenberg at night

South Coast

We all went on a little trip to the South Coast for a week before Carrie-Lee and Michael's wedding. Here's just a few randoms from the week. Photo's of the wedding coming soon! :)

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 Beaver Creek 

  Beaver Creek

My parent's want to retire here. ha :)

 Some very cool things, but no one was there!

 South Coast Hippies. haha

 Estuary

 Estuary

 Estuary

 Estuary

 Estuary

It was a really relaxed, fun week. I want to go back!

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Mentawai's MAGIC.

Mentawai's. YES PLEASE.
Ok, So I've been back for a few weeks now, and I still can't get over the trip. I've been for a few surfs at home and they just seem like epic fails after the waves we had! haha (Sorry Ansteys, I still love you.)
In the rare moments when I had nothing to do I typed out a few blog posts for everyday. Looking back on what I typed I'm sure I had proper cabin fever. Maybe I just wanted to rush the posts and go play outside on the boat again, or actually I don't know. But anyway, I've edited a few of them to let you guys know a bit of what went down on our trip.

DAY 1:

Hollow Trees

It’s our first time on a boat and it takes a while to get used to it but I think we’re getting better! Or maybe our tablets just work really well. We sailed 14 hours through the night and woke up to paradise - this place is truly  amazing. The crew on the boat are a really cool bunch of guys too. We got told that we'd probably be surfing for at least 6 hours a day. I thought it was a joke – it wasn’t. It’s almost impossible to not want to surf all day everyday!  Our first surf was at a place called Hollow Trees or Lances Rights. It’s so fun and I’m glad we got to surf a right for our first surf, because I just knew we’d be going left most of the time.

Our home :)

We ventured off to Lances Lefts which was 45 minutes away. I thought it would be lovely to go home with a “tan” so I started my first surf without sunblock. BAAAAD IDEA. It was only the first day and the sun had already cremated  the one side of my body. The perfect thing to go along with my rashed legs. Haha. All the girls are surfing so well and I don’t think its possible to surf badly with these perfect waves! happy place!! Weeeeeee.

Rash. I hate you.

Lance's Left

Summary of Day 1: Surfed for 6 hours. Ate. Slept. Sarah snapped one of her boards. Sailed out to sea and rocked ourselves to sleep.

DAY 2:

Woke up at Lances lefts again and I thought we were somewhere else. The water is so clean, I can see reef like 30 meters underwater. I love this place! This morning I had to surf in boardies and a rashvest because my sunburn was killing me - I almost couldn’t move. I’ve learnt my lesson now. The back of my legs felt like death! Since we've been here, we’ve met some really cool people in the water. One of the other boats has a bunch of brazillian guys on it. Only 3 of them are musicians, but they all joined in and sang us "Africa Unite" from their boat. ha it was cool.

Very, very, very clean water.

Summary of Day 2:

Surfed for 6 hours. Ate. Slept. Sarah snapped another board. Sarah, Chantelle, Tarryn and I decided to sleep on the deck.Wooo. It was so nice :)

DAY 3:

I don’t think I can write any more about each day with out it sounding the same. Ha. This has been the most amazing trip so far! Everyday pretty much goes like this: Wake up, eat, put on litres of sunblock, get in our little boat to get to the lineup, go surf for 2 hours, come out to amazing breakfast, sleep on the deck, surf again for 2 hours, eat amazing lunch, sleep again, go surf for 3 hours, have a bintang and eat amazing food again. Its BEAUTIFUL…I never want to leave!!!

Oooh and Sarah managed to not break a board today! 

But, I don’t feel like typing right now, Everyone is sitting on the deck in the sunset playing Kings.

Kings, Bintangs & Friends

DAY 4:

Neighbours.

Last night was fun. Ha. We ended up jumping off the boat and floating around for a while. After missioning to get back on the boat we saw the sea snake that was probably swimming around us the whole time. Sis. Freakout from my side. haha.

Macaronis again. Today was meant to be flat but it was far from it. Alan said it was the biggest he’s ever seen it. Ha. YAY. I surfed a little bit more on the shoulder than everyone else. I dont like backhand drops that look like death. We surfed for 2 hours, it was really fun but I was a bit unstable and scared of playing with the very sharp reef.

I wish our boat would move to the nice calm water now. I’m trying to sleep and I’m almost rolling off my bed.

Summary of Day 4:

Surf, eat, sleep, get sunburnt, bintangs.

Sarah snapped yet another board, and creased my one. Haha. 4 boards in 4 days!

We surfed with the whole of Australia and the prettiest sunset ever. 

DAY 5:

Macaroni’s: It’s overcast, so no shooting for us! Cookie made banana pancakes for breakfast. I never expected such amazing food on a boat! A quick crowded surf, then amazing lunch. Tarryn, Chantelle, Sarah and myself missioned to the beach just to be on land for a bit, and to see whats going on there. Theres nothing going on there except pamtrees and some random things from the tsunami. It was pretty though, and we found lots of pretty shells along with shoes and toothbrushes and boats..I miss Ty and my familyyyyy :)

Banana pancakes for breakfast!

Chantelle's "shell" Sebastien.

DAY 6:

There is no swell at all, so we’re just taking a day off surfing. We spent the day chilling on the boat, tanning, swimming, eating again. I watched everyone else do a backflip off the boat, and I instantly had flashbacks of me backFLOPPING as a kid, so I was over it. Ha. We swam to a little island just to walk on a still surface, picked up a few shells, paddled on some logs, tanned a bit, played in the sand. Alan also took a few lifestyle shots of all of us, I haven’t seen them yet, I’m nervous. Haha.

DAY 7:
I think.

Moose, Cookie and Gary.

I’m not even sure what the time or date is. I just know that I’m a very happy kid. We sailed to the Playgrounds area this morning. We surfed Nipussi, A right in a little bay thing. I think it picks up all the swell this place has to offer, but it picked up a little too much and so it was too big for the little bay. So we ended up duckdiving a lot and not getting the best waves ever. I say that, but I think we’ve maybe just become brats after being so spoilt with waves. But still, it was cool to be in the water. We’re about to go surf some other place I cant even pronounce, nevermind spell. It’s apparently another little right. But it’s a lot more shallow than the last place we surfed. Ha. Should be fun because everyones feeling seasick now, and a few of us have nearly fallen overboard.

Our night ended with Bintangs and playing Never Have I Ever. Terrible and great at the same time. The funniest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.

Prettiest sunset. Ever.

DAY 8:

Tanning weather.

Woke up feeling  GREAT. Ha.  There was such a scary storm last night, I though our boat was going to get struck by lightning. Its raining again today, but at least its warm! I surfed 4 bobs with Tassy.It’s a short, fun little right. I think everyone else hates it, but i’m happy to be going right. Haha. I went for another surf after lunch and listened to 2 grown men sing Rihanna in the water. They got out and for a whole 15 minutes I thought I was the coolest human alive because I surfed a place in the mentawais by myself. Then some more people paddled out. Lame.

Entertainment.

Summary of Day 8: Rainy day = card games, eating, surfing, watching chantelle and Sarah fish – Sarah caught one and Chantelle shouted at her to put it back. Haha. More, eating, card games, and that’s it.

DAY 9:

Raining again. And the waves are even flatter. Ha. Ended up playing cards the whole day (again). Things got serious and we started gambling with sweets and food. At least we aren’t stingy. After dinner we decided to extend our card games and ended up playing Kings with our last few Bintangs.

so nice packing wet clothes!

DAY 10:

Woke up to more rain, with lots of wind. We were going to stay at playgrounds for the day if the waves were fun, but none of that, so we lurked on the boat while it sailed for 12 hours in the rainy, windy, bumpy, stormy sea. I’ve never been so bored in my life. I’m not even over-exaggerating or being a brat. Ha. Card games weren’t even good enough. Everyone felt seasick because it was extremely bumpy, and we couldn’t go outside because it was raining. Proper cabin fever now.

Summary of day 10:
I spent the day reading a lame book, staring at the ceiling, talking rubbish, eating, eating again, watched someone catch a very big fish, and even had to play I spy. We finally made it to the harbour after the longest day ever. Yeeeow.

Ok, this was supposed to be the “shortened” version. It’s not. I couldn’t deal with deleting things. Ha. Officially my longest post EVER.

Once again, Thanks so much to Alan Van Gysen for organizing this trip and my lovely friendies for making it amazing!

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