Since I never surfed the previous time we had swell, I decided to be there 04:00. By around 04:30 I was sitting in the line-up. The lulls were long, but boy oh boy, when those sets came though I could feel there were lots more volume in there than ususal summer days. It turned out that I was dead tired and surfed out by 8:30. There were fears of onhores kicking in like last week...

But it never did. In fact, the swell was perfect all day long while the sets came through and by late afternoon there were only three guys out at Supertubes?! That's pretty amazing. The guys who are careful never surfed, and the tough ones had so many waves and were so tired that they did not have the energy for another session. Spirits on the boardwalk were pretty high and I found a couple of stoked locals sharing stories of the day with a bear in the hand. In town smiles were exchanged as all surfers were stoked big time, even if they snapped a board or lost a leash.

On the photography side, I only took photos after I surfed and then not for very long. Frankie had a couple of screamers and I will upload it at some point. The rest of the day I was busy with another assignment which did not include surfing, so not much photos for the rest of the day.

Orders are still coming in and thanks for that. I spent roughly R 100 000 on my gear, secondhand. So technically, if I sell 2000 photos at R 50 each then I can pay it off. Doing comissioned sessions helps a little. Right now my going rate per session which is normally between 60 and 80 minutes is R 350. For loose photos, it's R 50 per photo. With the type of equipment and quality of work I can produce, I think this is a great price. If you book a studio photographer for an hour or two you are talking a couple of thousand rands. He just sits in the comfort of his studio. A surf photographer goes to where the action is and takes his equipment into salty humid conditions to capture you.

I'll be out of the loop for the next couple of days because I am going on a army style bootcamp orientation with some students. My job is to make a documentary of the whole thing in photos and video. I have to edit it into a short 5min clip as well as a longer clip which may get close to 60 minutes.

I bought a second hand handycam during the week, so will probably get a bracket for it to use with the still camera and start doing surf videos as well...

Watch this space. (Yes, I will change the look of the website, when I have time.)