PRESIDENT/CAPTAIN'S REPORT

The Judging tent in full swing

Finally some sun & surf for our competition day even if it was our second attempt for the month. Also a great roll up with 18 hardy souls. Great to see former President Brian Delaney & the lovely Robyn back with us. Brian slipped straight back into competition mode winning his first heat & progressing to the 1st place final. Paul Bioletti also was in attendance as was Mr. Daz Larkin so all in all a great day was had by all. Thanks to Robyn for adding the female touch to the BBQ. The only sad part about the day was that yours truly dropped the morning tea in the sand. I'll put it down to job stress. This Sunday we are having our annual trivia day with Marg & Pete kindly donating their residence as the venue. Things kick off at 12.00 noon with trivia first followed by lunch then more trivia, drinks etc. The club is providing the meat for lunch. Hopefully we will get a good rollup. We will also be making a decision on club T/shirts on Sunday. See you there.

Wazza.

SOCIAL CALENDAR

The next social getogether is a BBQ on Sunday 20th July from 12pm-4pm at Marg & Pete Bryant's home. Wazza will attempt to stump us with some of his trivia questions and yes there are prizes for the smartest! The club will provide the meat for a big BBQ cook-up, please bring a plate and your own drinks. Please come along and support your club. To assist with catering please let Marg know if you will be coming on 6687-7081.

See the Club Calendar page for full details of all our planned social activities.

COMPETITON UPDATE

COMPETITION RESULTS - JULY

Our next club round is on Sunday 3rd August.

Entry forms for the Lennox Head Classic on the 2nd-3rd August are now available online. See the Calendar page for details.

CLUB SHIRTS

The club is considering ordering new team shirts for members to wear at social gatherings and inter-club competition rounds. The intention is to raise our profile and perhaps even attract more new members. Ken has organised quotes for navy blue polo shirts with light blue piping and our club logo. The cost per shirt is estimated to be $30, the committee need to know if members think it's a good idea and willing to purchase a shirt each. Please provide your feedback to the secretary@ballinamalibuclub.org.

NEWSLETTER & NEW WEB SITE

The club has a new web site – www.ballinamalibuclub.org. All the club newsletters can now be accessed via the web site and either viewed online or downloaded in a format suitable for printing. Members who have provided their email addresses to the secretary will receive an email each month containing a link to the newsletter. The Committee urges all members to take advantage of the new web site and register their email address. Members without an email address will still receive a printed copy via surface mail.

Members will find many benefits with the new web site including:

Members interested in submitting stories for inclusion in our monthly newsletter should Email submissions to secretary@ballinamalibuclub.org

MEMBER PROFILE

Name: Peter Bryant

Age: 61

Origins: Goulburn, NSW.

Family: Wife Marg, a son 29, and a daughter 25.

Job: I started off in accountancy, when dad died I took over a bakery in Goulburn. Now semi-retired, but am still involved in the Tee -Tree farm run by our son , I do the marketing of the bulk tee tree oil to mainly off-shore businesses.

Time on North Coast: 13 years.

Style: Natural

Quiver: 4 boards, 7'1", 7'4", 7'6" chunky short boards, 8'6" mini-mal quad fin, and I ride one of Marg's malibus (9'2" on permanent loan).

Started surfing: At 12 years of age on an old malibu. We had a holiday place at Batemans Bay and surfed in the area. After I met Marg at the age of 20 we surfed a lot around the Durras Lake area travelling from Goulburn every second weekend.

Favorite Surf Spot: New Plymoth in New Zealand.

Favorite Food: Whatever Marg cooks!

Favorite Activity (besides surfing): Following the share market.

Reason for joining the club: Social activities and surfing. I don't surf so much in the club rounds now as I used to do a lot of competitive surfing when younger. Still enjoy the social aspect of being a member.

TRAVELERS REPORT - from Chris Bull

Chris with Port Campbell Point lefts behind.

Helen and I recently returned from a 3 week tour of the middle of Australia travelling from Darwin in the north, via Alice Springs and Adelaide, to the Great Ocean Road in the south. One of the highlights of the tip for me was seeing the beautiful waves along a spectacular stretch of coast known as the Great Ocean Road.

The holiday seaside town of Port Campbell is located on the scenic Great Ocean Road, between Warrnambool to the west and Lavers Hill and Cape Otway in the east. The coastline around the Port Campbell area consists of steep, rocky cliffs with pristine sandy white beaches in bays at the base of many of these cliffs.

On the day we passed through the town the Port Campbell Point lefts were breaking about 500 meters out to sea at around 6'-8' caressed by an offshore breeze with no-one surfing. A young local surfer happened by and I asked him about the water temperature, he said it was around 11 degrees. I asked what thickness wet-suit they normally wore, he said 4 mm in the body and 3 mm in the arms. I couldn't imagine having to paddle so far out wearing such a thick wet suit. Than god for the North Coast with a water temperature of 24 degrees and wearing just a 2mm short arm spring suit in the middle of winter! On the opposite side of Port Campbell Point is a right-hander tow-in spot called "Two Mile" which handles 20ft swells with ease. Maybe next trip!

Huge collection of surfboards & memorabilia

On the way to Melbourne we drove through Torquay for the first time since my early twenties, we stopped at Surf City which is a mega-complex of surfing companies situated together. There’s Rip Curl, Piping hot, and Quicksilver as well as the Surfing World Museum which was reported in the May 2008 Club Newsletter. You could easily spend a few hours in this museum that has a huge collection of all types of surfboards, pictures, videos, and is a fantastic preservation of surfing history. Well worth a look.

GUEST RAVE....

Sunday 13th July Ballina Mal Club Meeting

Kept feeling in me bones all morning, that today was going to be a u bewt, appendage tearing surf…actually I feel all sorts of things in me bones these days…Max understands [well and there aint much of anything pleasurable appening in our bones these days]. Jeez, you would think Stylemaster and Madam Terrific could 'ave brought Max today. All these new members…. Ise away a few months and there is a flamin’ revolution in the membership ranks. Ya know one of these new upstarts happened to say today, that he is a better lookin bloke, than he is a surfer!!

Anyway, youse lot it was a fanbloodytabulous day….Wazza’s beautifully prepared and cared for sausages…but what did he mean when he said ‘a bit of grit on the sausages helps digestion?’ Does he thinks we’s a bunch of Rhode Island Reds? And a few of the older brigade,nah I mean the senior surfers,nah I didn’t mean that either….I meant to say some erstwhile members turned up, who for awhile have not surfed with the club…Devil Delaney, Jasmine Jan and a couple of the other more nameless famous members…

The waves, water temperature, whales, Margi’s pet shark [and Wazza’s sausages],the convivial atmosphere in and out of the water, though Cool Man Col and Killer Kerry have to be mentioned for the intimidation tactics that they used on one of our poor defenceless members…gawd some humans are mean and one of them is one whom I spend most of my week minding and keeping inside so that she does not outrage the neighbours…….anyway in just a few words…it was a really cool, unreal, sick day.

And no, I have not recovered from my combined affliction of rabies and distemper, but I am living with it and I am back, so there!!

See youse on the beach and in the water.

"Mister Benny"

(Mister Benny is the Nom de plume of our own Darryl Larkin)

MEMBERS CLASSIFIEDS -"NEW"

Items for sale (eg. used surfboards, surfing-related items etc) may be listed free of charge by members. Members are invited to lodge advertisements by Email to the Secretary. Please include a description, asking price, contact details, and preferably a color photograph of the item(s) for sale.

9'3" x 23 1/8" x 3" Harro Malibu Thruster Listed By Chris Bull PH: 6683-4602 PRICE $450 O.N.O. Good condition, has a few stress fractures under the nose but no damage to the underlying foam. No other dings. A very affordable secondhand mal.