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Mar 22 2012
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Travel

Sin.

Well, that was a regrettable decision.

I began the session at Snapper. That’s not the regrettable part. That part turned out to be satisfactory. At least. That part was all fun drops and successful bottom turns and speeding along deep green walls until my legs were tired. In the rain. You know I love it.

I got out of the water at Greenmount feeling pretty content. I was going to find some grub, some caffeine, some motivation. I turned around and scanned the shoreline. Hmm… I wonder what Kirra’s doing down there. I started walking in that direction. Just out of curiosity, really. It looked alright. There appeared to be some good sections, and there were like four guys out. I spotted a rip and started paddling, thinking I’d get a handful of fun shoulders (no barrels, thanks) and then go eat lunch. So, yeah, I was paddling, paddling…

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Mar 11 2012
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Photos, Travel

Ketchup

A [lightly edited] excerpt from an email I sent yesterday at 2:15 p.m.:

Last night, I experienced the acute pain of a bluebottle sting. Ummm, my entire leg felt like it was on fire and swelling up, and the pain spread to my groin! How insane is that? Thinking that perhaps I was stung by an irukandji, or was having an allergic reaction to a regular, ol’ hombre de guerra (man o’ war), I called B____ in a panic.

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“Is that normal?” I asked.

“Yeah, that sounds… pretty normal, yeah.”

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He told me his mum’s remedy, “dating from approximately 1945,” was to apply vinegar, but that he preferred ice. I settled for a bag of frozen veggies. It did decrease the swelling. And made for a funny Instagram. (Well, I think it’s funny.)

Actually, it occurred to me that the laziest (yet perhaps most effective) way of bringing you up to speed is via photographs. So, I am storrowing an idea from the brilliant fellows over at Surfing mag: Here’s some of what I’ve been neglecting to tell you about in a handy gallery of recent Instagram photos:

If, inexplicably, you’re keen for more of my mundane misadventures and mediocre photography, find me: @casebut.

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Mar 10 2010
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Hither and Thither, Radical

Dane’s Van

I think Marine Layer hit a new level of awesomeness yesterday when Dane Reynolds posted the following:

3 Easy Steps for Obtaining Charlie Brown’s Time Machine (My Van)

1. Be the FIRST one to SNAPPER HILL PARKING LOT

2. KEYS ARE INSIDE.  HOP IN.  Turn the key.  Figure out the column shift.

3. Drive off like a BANDIT.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED

DRIVE SAFE

This was followed (20 minutes later) by a post stating that the van was taken, “Thanks for lookin.”  An hour or so after that, an absurd video appeared of some guy scoping out the van and then, amazingly, driving it away!  (albeit not like a bandit)

Check it out.

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