<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778</id><updated>2012-02-11T20:01:35.076+08:00</updated><category term='&quot;'/><title type='text'>pointyhat boardriders</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>698</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3441236355412698617</id><published>2012-02-11T17:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T17:16:08.541+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Greenball lights up</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CzW6MDUg-Zw/TzYwjPY_CrI/AAAAAAAAITg/sH9aaknQFZ0/s1600/IMG_1864.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CzW6MDUg-Zw/TzYwjPY_CrI/AAAAAAAAITg/sH9aaknQFZ0/s640/IMG_1864.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gu3TJe331l0/TzYwq4vaH5I/AAAAAAAAITo/5tj4dh_J9eA/s1600/IMG_1864+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="296" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gu3TJe331l0/TzYwq4vaH5I/AAAAAAAAITo/5tj4dh_J9eA/s400/IMG_1864+-+Copy.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qw8txgEQci4/TzYwxWgcY7I/AAAAAAAAITw/vIlDEGdW0m8/s1600/IMG_1865.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qw8txgEQci4/TzYwxWgcY7I/AAAAAAAAITw/vIlDEGdW0m8/s400/IMG_1865.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dan, Zef, Chris and Zac all got some beauties at Greenball this morning. Zef "got nailed" before he came in, and there were a few cleanup sets around. Dan thought it was a bit sectiony when he first arrived but was really pleased with the wave quality when he got out there. He's nursing some cuts to his foot from the coral but had an excellent time. Dave didn't even pack a board so he wasn't tempted to re-injure his healing rib!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3441236355412698617?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3441236355412698617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3441236355412698617&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3441236355412698617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3441236355412698617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2012/02/greenball-lights-up.html' title='Greenball lights up'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CzW6MDUg-Zw/TzYwjPY_CrI/AAAAAAAAITg/sH9aaknQFZ0/s72-c/IMG_1864.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1851539496234187987</id><published>2012-02-06T11:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T11:57:03.383+08:00</updated><title type='text'>New wetsuit and boardies...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7lSTfS8AumY/Ty9PaaCJHnI/AAAAAAAAIS4/yAXZRzVtBSw/s1600/art-353-Slater-200x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7lSTfS8AumY/Ty9PaaCJHnI/AAAAAAAAIS4/yAXZRzVtBSw/s1600/art-353-Slater-200x0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sounds interesting &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/surfwear-pioneers-not-short-of-ideas-20120206-1r0u0.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1851539496234187987?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1851539496234187987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1851539496234187987&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1851539496234187987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1851539496234187987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-wetsuit-and-boardies.html' title='New wetsuit and boardies...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7lSTfS8AumY/Ty9PaaCJHnI/AAAAAAAAIS4/yAXZRzVtBSw/s72-c/art-353-Slater-200x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5664351137191573265</id><published>2012-01-30T07:56:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T07:57:56.683+08:00</updated><title type='text'>While cold and wet in Taiwan,.....Bali was different!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E6N3s6U9Z2w/TyXaqhzhIvI/AAAAAAAAIRQ/q-LmPfIr2bU/s1600/Bali+2012+13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="260" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E6N3s6U9Z2w/TyXaqhzhIvI/AAAAAAAAIRQ/q-LmPfIr2bU/s640/Bali+2012+13.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ctiq1nGc8U/TyXaovnw0bI/AAAAAAAAIQ4/rUeCtp9wguk/s1600/Bali+2012+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ctiq1nGc8U/TyXaovnw0bI/AAAAAAAAIQ4/rUeCtp9wguk/s400/Bali+2012+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t7K0xzEZkrc/TyXapHXgYpI/AAAAAAAAIQ8/QvH7p-FMKW4/s1600/Bali+2012+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="148" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t7K0xzEZkrc/TyXapHXgYpI/AAAAAAAAIQ8/QvH7p-FMKW4/s400/Bali+2012+4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o00_C3Jx_gw/TyXaqEnPaUI/AAAAAAAAIRE/9Vn2SiBWuQE/s1600/Bali+2012+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="193" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o00_C3Jx_gw/TyXaqEnPaUI/AAAAAAAAIRE/9Vn2SiBWuQE/s400/Bali+2012+10.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEGGmk20Hdg/TyXasJ7tv-I/AAAAAAAAIRY/3dvY4W33cD0/s1600/Bali+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aEGGmk20Hdg/TyXasJ7tv-I/AAAAAAAAIRY/3dvY4W33cD0/s400/Bali+2012.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;While it was cold and wet in Taiwan for the majority of the week...........&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Big Gazza scored some pumping sessions in Bali over the break. Serangan had good surf every day with some days really amped up. He grabbed the camera to take a few shots after one session (above) and reports that his old body just managed to hold together throughout! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5664351137191573265?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5664351137191573265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5664351137191573265&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5664351137191573265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5664351137191573265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2012/01/while-cold-and-wet-in-taiwanbali-was.html' title='While cold and wet in Taiwan,.....Bali was different!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E6N3s6U9Z2w/TyXaqhzhIvI/AAAAAAAAIRQ/q-LmPfIr2bU/s72-c/Bali+2012+13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4790451913676476883</id><published>2012-01-24T08:05:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T16:15:04.563+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nan Ao t of this world!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BewEIsxVmXo/Tx3tEU5HsVI/AAAAAAAAIO8/9Ti2CG6sWqw/s1600/IMG_1844.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BewEIsxVmXo/Tx3tEU5HsVI/AAAAAAAAIO8/9Ti2CG6sWqw/s400/IMG_1844.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PY6wHqotNw8/Tx3tF3MChCI/AAAAAAAAIPQ/oqL2QQtrObk/s1600/IMG_1846.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PY6wHqotNw8/Tx3tF3MChCI/AAAAAAAAIPQ/oqL2QQtrObk/s400/IMG_1846.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KPllQcO7x90/Tx3tHQhXu5I/AAAAAAAAIPY/9LCwkI9Xo7c/s1600/IMG_1848.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KPllQcO7x90/Tx3tHQhXu5I/AAAAAAAAIPY/9LCwkI9Xo7c/s400/IMG_1848.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1z6QByvN99Y/Tx3tLDHetbI/AAAAAAAAIQE/NvG3ogywNLM/s1600/IMG_1861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1z6QByvN99Y/Tx3tLDHetbI/AAAAAAAAIQE/NvG3ogywNLM/s400/IMG_1861.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;WOW! What a day. Dan drove Zef, Dave and Simon down to Nan Ao after an early morning start at 4.45. We were in the water at 7 and it was stellar. Powerful walls, crumbling takeoff before a steep drive into the bank and the best waves screamed down the line to ease out on the shoreline 100 metres away from the take off zone. Everyone had at least two sessions, wringing the most from the day. Dan was ripping on his Chili shortboard, Zef was showing surfing maturity beyond his years (and courage!) and Simon and Dave each got a slew of beauties to put in the memory bank. Dave appears to have injured a rib or two, injury occurring on the very first wave of the day... &lt;i&gt;Update: just back from hospital, one fracture, no displacement, lot of muscle tear, but should "recover quickly"...righto Doc, I'll hold you to that!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4790451913676476883?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4790451913676476883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4790451913676476883&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4790451913676476883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4790451913676476883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2012/01/nan-ao-t-of-this-world.html' title='Nan Ao t of this world!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BewEIsxVmXo/Tx3tEU5HsVI/AAAAAAAAIO8/9Ti2CG6sWqw/s72-c/IMG_1844.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6236383962827877902</id><published>2011-12-31T13:29:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T15:21:08.068+08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MwyAFXesUaA/Tv6ZudACT3I/AAAAAAAAIMg/orGraDsrcSE/s1600/IMG_1787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MwyAFXesUaA/Tv6ZudACT3I/AAAAAAAAIMg/orGraDsrcSE/s400/IMG_1787.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sansiantai&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cu-8CGktw7M/Tv6ZvBKfHII/AAAAAAAAIMs/GUDRlPNupFI/s1600/IMG_1791.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cu-8CGktw7M/Tv6ZvBKfHII/AAAAAAAAIMs/GUDRlPNupFI/s400/IMG_1791.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JWQQ-zrXOU/Tv6ZwPeC6SI/AAAAAAAAIM0/j5Pp2hBwlUk/s1600/IMG_1793.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="318" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JWQQ-zrXOU/Tv6ZwPeC6SI/AAAAAAAAIM0/j5Pp2hBwlUk/s400/IMG_1793.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Two above are Bashien&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Well, the second great south and east coast road trip was another resounding success. Jialeshui pumped as described in the last post and it was a balmy 25 degrees and sunny. The east coast drive was peppered with punchy left hand point breaks, all the way from the "loads of potential" Dawu, through to Sansiantai (Chenggong), which just needed another foot of swell to take the very sharp coral out of the equation. Undeterred and traveling on, Donghe had size but was blown. Bashien was a stellar find, see video above or &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/W3_uYyrzX8s"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, although the takeoff looking straight into a boulder lined shore was heart-in-the-mouth stuff! Again deserted, it was pumping with power the whole time. To top it off on the way home, Nan Ao was at its most intimidating, breaking heavy and close to shore. For some video action check Pointyhat's own Youtube channel of &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/8CzLzevaC1M"&gt;Sansiantai&lt;/a&gt;, some kooky stuff from Dave &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/Ym_bUr8njao"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/81BKeIijwrI"&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;at Bashien, as well as the murderous thunder of &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/nEPQU7Ihmb4"&gt;Nan Ao!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6236383962827877902?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6236383962827877902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6236383962827877902&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6236383962827877902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6236383962827877902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-above-are-jialeshui-sansiantai-two.html' title=''/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hy2aNoUFe90/Tv6ZXurmD5I/AAAAAAAAIL4/qMKHINNcLBI/s72-c/IMG_1738.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4216317976181196709</id><published>2011-12-28T16:01:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T16:01:36.117+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Southern comfort</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Jialushui was pumping today, with a machine-like 4 foot swell pulsing in all day and the odd 6 foot set: wild! My phone is playing up, so no photos for a few days. 5 hours surfing today, arms like jelly...I'm off for a nap!&lt;br&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;br/&gt; &lt;div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'&gt;Published with Blogger-droid v2.0.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4216317976181196709?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4216317976181196709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4216317976181196709&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4216317976181196709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4216317976181196709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/12/southern-comfort.html' title='Southern comfort'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-975362038256257065</id><published>2011-12-07T11:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T11:03:17.168+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pipe Masters coming up....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tkxqn8i5gh4/Tt7TIJMkr6I/AAAAAAAAHgU/p2jJRAU7fsQ/s1600/pipe_day0-640x360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="360" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tkxqn8i5gh4/Tt7TIJMkr6I/AAAAAAAAHgU/p2jJRAU7fsQ/s640/pipe_day0-640x360.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pipe Masters is expecting a monster swell to hit tonight/tomorrow in time for the first day of the wait period. Should be a cracker: old Kelly (39) with the pressure off still killing it, Hawaii's John John Florence (19) and Brazil's Gabriel Medina (just 17) lead the young gun charge. Here's the &lt;a href="http://vanstriplecrownofsurfing.com/billabongpipemasters2011"&gt;live link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-975362038256257065?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/975362038256257065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=975362038256257065&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/975362038256257065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/975362038256257065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/12/pipe-masters-coming-up.html' title='Pipe Masters coming up....'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tkxqn8i5gh4/Tt7TIJMkr6I/AAAAAAAAHgU/p2jJRAU7fsQ/s72-c/pipe_day0-640x360.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1997854830872432999</id><published>2011-11-24T15:33:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T15:36:12.618+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Give thanks for the Pillbox...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mqd-ZEEE5cE/Ts3yS_PpkVI/AAAAAAAAHZE/5ID4t9qvq8A/s1600/IMG_1272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="311" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mqd-ZEEE5cE/Ts3yS_PpkVI/AAAAAAAAHZE/5ID4t9qvq8A/s400/IMG_1272.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DlbzmQDinIM/Ts3yNhs7QFI/AAAAAAAAHY8/Cm2HZTDvtYA/s1600/Slide1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DlbzmQDinIM/Ts3yNhs7QFI/AAAAAAAAHY8/Cm2HZTDvtYA/s400/Slide1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-We0bDQbSzrA/Ts3ye8Kq8mI/AAAAAAAAHZM/9W7c7XkQfPM/s1600/IMG_1276.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="302" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-We0bDQbSzrA/Ts3ye8Kq8mI/AAAAAAAAHZM/9W7c7XkQfPM/s400/IMG_1276.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Pilly was windswept, but like always, every now and then they'd be a swing to cross-shore and a few nice little faces would open up. The rip was working overtime and so was the paddling! Not sensational, but a few satisfying little waves were had.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1997854830872432999?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1997854830872432999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1997854830872432999&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1997854830872432999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1997854830872432999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/11/give-thanks-for-pillbox.html' title='Give thanks for the Pillbox...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mqd-ZEEE5cE/Ts3yS_PpkVI/AAAAAAAAHZE/5ID4t9qvq8A/s72-c/IMG_1272.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5749438572743596154</id><published>2011-11-07T11:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-11-07T11:24:23.668+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Now, he's REALLY won it!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6yiIsij2Pfo/TpwX2zl1a_I/AAAAAAAAFA8/sHOTKueJjCI/s1600/classic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6yiIsij2Pfo/TpwX2zl1a_I/AAAAAAAAFA8/sHOTKueJjCI/s1600/classic.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5662139191510109104?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5662139191510109104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5662139191510109104&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5662139191510109104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5662139191510109104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-classic.html' title='just classic...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6yiIsij2Pfo/TpwX2zl1a_I/AAAAAAAAFA8/sHOTKueJjCI/s72-c/classic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5026423637491152074</id><published>2011-10-11T15:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T15:58:20.231+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Seaweed sludge to zephrs of wind</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Dan and clan had checked out Suao, but a sludgy seaweed build-up had spoiled the fun. The Taj had some surprisingly fun little waves, but those big boards helped.....thanks for the lend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5026423637491152074?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5026423637491152074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5026423637491152074&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5026423637491152074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5026423637491152074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/10/seaweed-sludge-to-zephrs-of-wind.html' title='Seaweed sludge to zephrs of wind'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_--pX_W927U/TpP2PRfzoNI/AAAAAAAAE90/nXVMfVSU_7s/s72-c/IMG_1154.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1317937753726058548</id><published>2011-10-07T13:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T13:41:59.157+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Too good not to share.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UXTOIATvTDQ/To6RB0zw7pI/AAAAAAAAE9w/sabSzF_WkQo/s1600/316201_10150400939182463_108605392462_9951318_1222755987_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UXTOIATvTDQ/To6RB0zw7pI/AAAAAAAAE9w/sabSzF_WkQo/s640/316201_10150400939182463_108605392462_9951318_1222755987_n.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1317937753726058548?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1317937753726058548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1317937753726058548&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1317937753726058548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1317937753726058548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/10/too-good-not-to-share.html' title='Too good not to share.....'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UXTOIATvTDQ/To6RB0zw7pI/AAAAAAAAE9w/sabSzF_WkQo/s72-c/316201_10150400939182463_108605392462_9951318_1222755987_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1839519754877746493</id><published>2011-10-06T10:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T10:46:21.621+08:00</updated><title type='text'>sloppy action</title><content type='html'>A bit of &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surffella/article?mid=36933&amp;amp;prev=32967&amp;amp;next=36925"&gt;sloppy action&lt;/a&gt; out at Wushi today. 4 day weekend coming up, let's hope for a bit of wave action. Interesting video above of a bit of wave gardening in Spain! (thanks Dan for the &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://vimeo.com/29987296%20"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1839519754877746493?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1839519754877746493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1839519754877746493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1839519754877746493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1839519754877746493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/10/sloppy-action.html' title='sloppy action'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8882354762822639984</id><published>2011-10-01T10:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T10:55:03.274+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clarky flow rides in Singas...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Ay_8mzq9Y/TmwjQs2PI2I/AAAAAAAAE7Y/sbLm9FpgWXs/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Ay_8mzq9Y/TmwjQs2PI2I/AAAAAAAAE7Y/sbLm9FpgWXs/s400/Presentation1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Photo: thanks, as always, to "surfella")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-950359695708637806?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/950359695708637806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=950359695708637806&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/950359695708637806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/950359695708637806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/09/no-comment.html' title='No comment'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S4Ay_8mzq9Y/TmwjQs2PI2I/AAAAAAAAE7Y/sbLm9FpgWXs/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4847043406101554290</id><published>2011-09-10T10:16:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T11:23:15.262+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Owie!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJafoQ1mBs4/TmrKeuv9FNI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/uvR_GM-udsA/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="360" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJafoQ1mBs4/TmrKeuv9FNI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/uvR_GM-udsA/s640/Presentation1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZchhSi3EfQ/TmrIE4rFGUI/AAAAAAAAE7E/pRNJbhMmJU8/s1600/owen5859NY11kirstin_l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LZchhSi3EfQ/TmrIE4rFGUI/AAAAAAAAE7E/pRNJbhMmJU8/s400/owen5859NY11kirstin_l.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xredXUV26js/TmrIFcCWzFI/AAAAAAAAE7I/O8RK6JAkZOE/s1600/waverowland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xredXUV26js/TmrIFcCWzFI/AAAAAAAAE7I/O8RK6JAkZOE/s400/waverowland.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry"&gt;&lt;h2 class="post-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspworldtour.com/2011/09/09/owen-wright-takes-out-kelly-slater-to-claim-quiksilver-pro-new-york-and-us300000-first-prize/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Owen Wright Takes Out Kelly Slater to Claim Quiksilver Pro New York and US$300,000 First Prize"&gt;Owen Wright Takes Out Kelly Slater to Claim Quiksilver Pro New York and US$300,000 First Prize&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;LONG BEACH, Long Island/New York (Friday, September 9, 2011) –  Owen Wright (AUS), 21, has claimed his maiden ASP Dream Tour victory,  taking out the inaugural Quiksilver Pro New York over Kelly Slater  (USA), 39, to earn the historic US $300,000 first-place prize purse in  offshore three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) surf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photos, text: ASP world tour)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Check the final replay right &lt;a href="http://www.quiksilverpro.com/heat_review.en.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="readmore"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspworldtour.com/2011/09/09/owen-wright-takes-out-kelly-slater-to-claim-quiksilver-pro-new-york-and-us300000-first-prize/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Owen Wright Takes Out Kelly Slater to Claim Quiksilver Pro New York and US$300,000 First Prize"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4847043406101554290?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4847043406101554290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4847043406101554290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4847043406101554290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4847043406101554290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/09/owie.html' title='Owie!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJafoQ1mBs4/TmrKeuv9FNI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/uvR_GM-udsA/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7645217957102767402</id><published>2011-09-09T06:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T06:57:58.571+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Not looking great...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBrkNW0dts/TmlISW3MqSI/AAAAAAAAE7A/WMKNX-5sadA/s1600/Presentation1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="252" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBrkNW0dts/TmlISW3MqSI/AAAAAAAAE7A/WMKNX-5sadA/s400/Presentation1.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Enough said?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7645217957102767402?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7645217957102767402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7645217957102767402&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7645217957102767402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7645217957102767402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-looking-great.html' title='Not looking great...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBrkNW0dts/TmlISW3MqSI/AAAAAAAAE7A/WMKNX-5sadA/s72-c/Presentation1.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6514274724011749495</id><published>2011-09-04T10:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T10:48:42.753+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Burn baby burn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPUXl_u-fxM/TmLmMSoKIBI/AAAAAAAAE6Q/zaL8dbDGqlo/s1600/ap_F23_20110904064429657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPUXl_u-fxM/TmLmMSoKIBI/AAAAAAAAE6Q/zaL8dbDGqlo/s400/ap_F23_20110904064429657.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;East coast looks smallish, but fun today (above). Dan reports a great day at inside Jinshan point and also a stint at Kamikazes yesterday. He surfed himself to a standstill and got himself burnt to a crisp along the way!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6514274724011749495?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6514274724011749495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6514274724011749495&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6514274724011749495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6514274724011749495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/09/burn-baby-burn.html' title='Burn baby burn'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPUXl_u-fxM/TmLmMSoKIBI/AAAAAAAAE6Q/zaL8dbDGqlo/s72-c/ap_F23_20110904064429657.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6595065717326240945</id><published>2011-09-02T10:54:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T10:54:45.399+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baishawan vision</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UY378HodFww/TmBFUaxOWJI/AAAAAAAAE6M/uVxtUzrChvE/s1600/ap_F23_20110901060308237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UY378HodFww/TmBFUaxOWJI/AAAAAAAAE6M/uVxtUzrChvE/s400/ap_F23_20110901060308237.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Some nice pics posted from Baishawan a couple of days ago... check them &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surf70tw2000/article?mid=8084&amp;amp;prev=-1&amp;amp;next=8014"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Photos: cusurf paradise)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6595065717326240945?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6595065717326240945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6595065717326240945&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6595065717326240945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6595065717326240945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/09/baishawan-vision.html' title='Baishawan vision'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UY378HodFww/TmBFUaxOWJI/AAAAAAAAE6M/uVxtUzrChvE/s72-c/ap_F23_20110901060308237.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6910423424577803253</id><published>2011-08-30T06:52:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T10:37:47.842+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Slater beats Owen Wright in the final</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AhLjE0ei_JI/TlwYGu03lSI/AAAAAAAAE6I/cDNQM39TcLc/s1600/winner_kelly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AhLjE0ei_JI/TlwYGu03lSI/AAAAAAAAE6I/cDNQM39TcLc/s400/winner_kelly.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Check the whole final through the heat analyzer right &lt;a href="http://billabongpro.com/tahiti11/heat-analyzer-gb"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6910423424577803253?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6910423424577803253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6910423424577803253&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6910423424577803253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6910423424577803253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/slater-beats-owen-wright-in-final.html' title='Slater beats Owen Wright in the final'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AhLjE0ei_JI/TlwYGu03lSI/AAAAAAAAE6I/cDNQM39TcLc/s72-c/winner_kelly.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3802045044708403200</id><published>2011-08-29T09:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T09:29:43.984+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Chopes going off AGAIN!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tXKiG2yTs0/TlrrAt1aAxI/AAAAAAAAE6E/n0bpcqPNnm8/s1600/tah11_day08_tow_2823tahiti11robertson__medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tXKiG2yTs0/TlrrAt1aAxI/AAAAAAAAE6E/n0bpcqPNnm8/s640/tah11_day08_tow_2823tahiti11robertson__medium.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Owen Wright's 19.77 for 2 waves has just been topped by a perfect 20 by Jeremy Flores! Teahupoo front row seats right &lt;a href="http://billabongpro.com/tahiti11/live-gb/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, right now. Wilkinson v Otton about to start.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3802045044708403200?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3802045044708403200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3802045044708403200&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3802045044708403200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3802045044708403200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/chopes-going-off-again.html' title='Chopes going off AGAIN!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tXKiG2yTs0/TlrrAt1aAxI/AAAAAAAAE6E/n0bpcqPNnm8/s72-c/tah11_day08_tow_2823tahiti11robertson__medium.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6235562385528960932</id><published>2011-08-28T16:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T16:20:39.501+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Typhoon tribulations</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pPpyDGhzYs0/Tln4UZIsbjI/AAAAAAAAE4o/Wh7mSQJPiI8/s1600/IMG_1057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pPpyDGhzYs0/Tln4UZIsbjI/AAAAAAAAE4o/Wh7mSQJPiI8/s400/IMG_1057.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pillbox flat&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RueQl5H2nWI/Tln4U0hO1QI/AAAAAAAAE4s/g1lRNe9fvMY/s1600/IMG_1060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RueQl5H2nWI/Tln4U0hO1QI/AAAAAAAAE4s/g1lRNe9fvMY/s400/IMG_1060.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Rocket was the best option&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCJyNf0Qf5k/Tln4VK1tlsI/AAAAAAAAE4w/4gOQ6_HOy0c/s1600/IMG_1061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCJyNf0Qf5k/Tln4VK1tlsI/AAAAAAAAE4w/4gOQ6_HOy0c/s400/IMG_1061.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Zef paddles for a wave&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T1KL1DrpNQ8/Tln4VgrnUzI/AAAAAAAAE40/Ee5YQjFfl9c/s1600/IMG_1063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="259" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T1KL1DrpNQ8/Tln4VgrnUzI/AAAAAAAAE40/Ee5YQjFfl9c/s320/IMG_1063.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Dan (above and below)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XrX61LyQJhI/Tln4WH482JI/AAAAAAAAE44/B7ZstJRS97Q/s1600/IMG_1064.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="262" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XrX61LyQJhI/Tln4WH482JI/AAAAAAAAE44/B7ZstJRS97Q/s320/IMG_1064.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Every spot from the Pilly to the Rocket was either flat or blown out mush. Dan, Chris and Zef reported Green Bay to be messy, so the Rocket it was for them and Dave. We couldn't believe this was it for the weekend typhoon swell: either bad locations, bad timing or both. Anyway, a touch of fun was had at the Rocket. Aaron reported that an over zealous coastguard had closed Baishawan earlier in the morning...it was flat when Dave drove past. Another ominous sign of possible things to come: the Pillbox has been "beautified" with a coastal walk so more people will see it now: hopefully the ever-present pig farm stink will continue to keep them away!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6235562385528960932?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6235562385528960932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6235562385528960932&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6235562385528960932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6235562385528960932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/typhoon-tribulations.html' title='Typhoon tribulations'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pPpyDGhzYs0/Tln4UZIsbjI/AAAAAAAAE4o/Wh7mSQJPiI8/s72-c/IMG_1057.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2546035866097349634</id><published>2011-08-28T07:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T07:45:42.230+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Chopes going off</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3WV5IY4yj5c/TlmBPM8WyII/AAAAAAAAE4k/lPpq38AHXeU/s1600/tow_live_now3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3WV5IY4yj5c/TlmBPM8WyII/AAAAAAAAE4k/lPpq38AHXeU/s400/tow_live_now3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Check it &lt;a href="http://www.billabongpro.com/tahiti11/live-gb"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Big swell lots of spots around the world at the moment. Here in Taiwan....north or east, who knows? Our usual spies are not broadcasting their photos, so old time chart reading is back in vogue!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2546035866097349634?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2546035866097349634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2546035866097349634&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2546035866097349634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2546035866097349634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/chopes-going-off.html' title='Chopes going off'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3WV5IY4yj5c/TlmBPM8WyII/AAAAAAAAE4k/lPpq38AHXeU/s72-c/tow_live_now3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2966398452761965674</id><published>2011-08-27T15:30:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-27T15:32:09.468+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Still waiting...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-msa43gPor-0/TlicK5WKBpI/AAAAAAAAE4U/Arvmi9EfOyU/s1600/IMG_1014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-msa43gPor-0/TlicK5WKBpI/AAAAAAAAE4U/Arvmi9EfOyU/s400/IMG_1014.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-71jnC0Mwt-g/TlicLxX7c0I/AAAAAAAAE4Y/R4-byRVHK_I/s1600/IMG_1021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="306" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-71jnC0Mwt-g/TlicLxX7c0I/AAAAAAAAE4Y/R4-byRVHK_I/s400/IMG_1021.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2jrpPYA_mM/TlicMin7XPI/AAAAAAAAE4c/IxpO9yJ2T70/s1600/IMG_1023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2jrpPYA_mM/TlicMin7XPI/AAAAAAAAE4c/IxpO9yJ2T70/s400/IMG_1023.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f1c2ZLYQ9uQ/TlicNmDX9RI/AAAAAAAAE4g/5-rWuo1QCK8/s1600/IMG_1026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="333" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f1c2ZLYQ9uQ/TlicNmDX9RI/AAAAAAAAE4g/5-rWuo1QCK8/s400/IMG_1026.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Typhoon approaches, but the north coast just got a pass mark today. Cliffs was the best of them, slight offshore, bigger sets had a bit of juice. Dave got a few. Simon reported Wushi as nice and hollow, probably the better bet. According to her facebook page, the girl from Surfella was busy battening down the hatches in anticipation of the big blow, so no photos from her today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2966398452761965674?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2966398452761965674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2966398452761965674&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2966398452761965674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2966398452761965674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/still-waiting.html' title='Still waiting...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-msa43gPor-0/TlicK5WKBpI/AAAAAAAAE4U/Arvmi9EfOyU/s72-c/IMG_1014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3288058268858401967</id><published>2011-08-26T08:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T08:03:08.601+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crowd comes out!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KPEwoNSt8Ic/TlbiYQnQD3I/AAAAAAAAE4Q/5t38Q8oVBpc/s1600/ap_F23_20110826071716440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KPEwoNSt8Ic/TlbiYQnQD3I/AAAAAAAAE4Q/5t38Q8oVBpc/s400/ap_F23_20110826071716440.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Looks like the Wushi boys and girls were expecting some swell this morning!~ Not yet....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3288058268858401967?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3288058268858401967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3288058268858401967&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3288058268858401967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3288058268858401967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/crowd-comes-out.html' title='Crowd comes out!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KPEwoNSt8Ic/TlbiYQnQD3I/AAAAAAAAE4Q/5t38Q8oVBpc/s72-c/ap_F23_20110826071716440.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1871019498255927200</id><published>2011-08-25T14:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T14:42:38.269+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hhhmmmm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lcpZyebUkVA/TlXugoF7HBI/AAAAAAAAE4I/9KPdpvw3gJ4/s1600/Wave+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="270" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lcpZyebUkVA/TlXugoF7HBI/AAAAAAAAE4I/9KPdpvw3gJ4/s400/Wave+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OA21Isefd9E/TlXuhJjkC8I/AAAAAAAAE4M/VQHRD4V_jsg/s1600/wave2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OA21Isefd9E/TlXuhJjkC8I/AAAAAAAAE4M/VQHRD4V_jsg/s400/wave2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wave heights for Sunday 2pm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1871019498255927200?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1871019498255927200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1871019498255927200&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1871019498255927200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1871019498255927200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/hhhmmmm.html' title='Hhhmmmm'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lcpZyebUkVA/TlXugoF7HBI/AAAAAAAAE4I/9KPdpvw3gJ4/s72-c/Wave+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8222201470239296928</id><published>2011-08-24T10:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T10:51:16.762+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxS5or0Rhv0/TlRm-T6V8II/AAAAAAAAE4E/DSQ2dyOzijQ/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxS5or0Rhv0/TlRm-T6V8II/AAAAAAAAE4E/DSQ2dyOzijQ/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8222201470239296928?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8222201470239296928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8222201470239296928&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8222201470239296928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8222201470239296928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/interesting.html' title='Interesting...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nxS5or0Rhv0/TlRm-T6V8II/AAAAAAAAE4E/DSQ2dyOzijQ/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1715426127435934675</id><published>2011-08-24T07:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T07:59:20.016+08:00</updated><title type='text'>All quiet on the eastern front</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h8tBxzm7ogw/TlQ-vAg8PFI/AAAAAAAAE4A/8Iq9U4FpdWg/s1600/ap_F23_20110824064326815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h8tBxzm7ogw/TlQ-vAg8PFI/AAAAAAAAE4A/8Iq9U4FpdWg/s400/ap_F23_20110824064326815.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(Photo: surffella)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1715426127435934675?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1715426127435934675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1715426127435934675&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1715426127435934675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1715426127435934675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-quiet-on-eastern-front.html' title='All quiet on the eastern front'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h8tBxzm7ogw/TlQ-vAg8PFI/AAAAAAAAE4A/8Iq9U4FpdWg/s72-c/ap_F23_20110824064326815.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2541085797716371554</id><published>2011-08-18T10:50:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-18T11:22:37.435+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sublime to Ridiculous (aka Rare to Usual)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E_-cDTFOoss/Tkx9IHju4lI/AAAAAAAAE28/WNQSlZuC-AU/s1600/pointies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="371" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E_-cDTFOoss/Tkx9IHju4lI/AAAAAAAAE28/WNQSlZuC-AU/s640/pointies.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XjsUtlh53Rg/Tkx9M3IF_MI/AAAAAAAAE3A/QzwqhGoguSs/s1600/IMAG0319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XjsUtlh53Rg/Tkx9M3IF_MI/AAAAAAAAE3A/QzwqhGoguSs/s400/IMAG0319.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JHeZeS64w3s/Tkx9NeqMqsI/AAAAAAAAE3E/rLmrSneBPnc/s1600/IMAG0320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JHeZeS64w3s/Tkx9NeqMqsI/AAAAAAAAE3E/rLmrSneBPnc/s400/IMAG0320.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o5WAvTdOofo/Tkx9Nk-VsBI/AAAAAAAAE3I/kffivXYbm6k/s1600/IMAG0321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o5WAvTdOofo/Tkx9Nk-VsBI/AAAAAAAAE3I/kffivXYbm6k/s400/IMAG0321.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The weekend before last was cranking. Dan took these shots on his phone. There were numerous spots from Pointies (top photo) to Green Ball that were surfable. Green Ball itself, strangely, was flat. Last weekend provided that usual Taiwanese flipside to this swell....flat again!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2541085797716371554?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2541085797716371554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2541085797716371554&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2541085797716371554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2541085797716371554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/sublime-to-ridiculous-aka-rare-to-usual.html' title='Sublime to Ridiculous (aka Rare to Usual)'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E_-cDTFOoss/Tkx9IHju4lI/AAAAAAAAE28/WNQSlZuC-AU/s72-c/pointies.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5685566033047519815</id><published>2011-08-09T15:11:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T15:14:16.223+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter/Summer break.....we're back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BaxppW1pbvo/TkDeIMKFu3I/AAAAAAAAE14/d5H5PfdE71I/s1600/2011%252520033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BaxppW1pbvo/TkDeIMKFu3I/AAAAAAAAE14/d5H5PfdE71I/s1600/2011%252520033.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dave got some great swell on the way up to the tow-in monsters and also in swell scaling down for the week after it hit. Merewether was really cranking most of the winter. Dan was a bit disappointed with his trip to South Africa from a surf perspective: J-Bay just didn't turn it on while he was there. Haven't caught up with the other surfers yet, but I will. Send me any stories, pics, for posting...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5685566033047519815?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5685566033047519815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5685566033047519815&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5685566033047519815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5685566033047519815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/wintersummer-breakwere-back.html' title='Winter/Summer break.....we&apos;re back!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BaxppW1pbvo/TkDeIMKFu3I/AAAAAAAAE14/d5H5PfdE71I/s72-c/2011%252520033.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2966769724320172086</id><published>2011-07-29T12:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T12:13:09.797+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A very mild winter's day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WXJB6z1G9cA/TjIzBmnnPFI/AAAAAAAAE0A/Yr37-dOSb-s/s1600/2011+185.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WXJB6z1G9cA/TjIzBmnnPFI/AAAAAAAAE0A/Yr37-dOSb-s/s400/2011+185.jpg" t$="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;so warm, sunny and sparkly....can this really be winter at Merewether? Dave enjoys...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2966769724320172086?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2966769724320172086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2966769724320172086&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2966769724320172086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2966769724320172086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/07/very-mild-winters-day.html' title='A very mild winter&apos;s day'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WXJB6z1G9cA/TjIzBmnnPFI/AAAAAAAAE0A/Yr37-dOSb-s/s72-c/2011+185.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-966167663773076058</id><published>2011-07-13T11:57:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T12:01:50.624+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Swell times in Newcastle</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CabuCcmGZ6w/Th0Xf1r0w6I/AAAAAAAAEz8/3KgNR9Xx4YI/s1600/2011+033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CabuCcmGZ6w/Th0Xf1r0w6I/AAAAAAAAEz8/3KgNR9Xx4YI/s400/2011+033.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Check video &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdufS-PT1tg"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or above to get an idea of the massive swell hitting the Newcastle coast. Dave got a few earlier, but the tow-in boys are the only ones operating now. Pointyhat official photographer, Lewy, arrives in Newcastle tomorrow for a visit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-966167663773076058?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/966167663773076058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=966167663773076058&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/966167663773076058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/966167663773076058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/07/swell-times-in-newcastle.html' title='Swell times in Newcastle'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CabuCcmGZ6w/Th0Xf1r0w6I/AAAAAAAAEz8/3KgNR9Xx4YI/s72-c/2011+033.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2486288477529747970</id><published>2011-05-29T20:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-29T20:36:45.210+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Typhoon aftermath</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c9l7EQxB_qw/TeI8fpqV4FI/AAAAAAAAEz0/EBASz32ZDwA/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="286" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c9l7EQxB_qw/TeI8fpqV4FI/AAAAAAAAEz0/EBASz32ZDwA/s400/Presentation1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is, of course Shipstern's Bluff, not Taiwan, but back to that later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan and Simon both got amongst the waves at Green Ball in a dying typhoon swell, but were joined by a whole phalanx of other surfers. The water was pushing across the reef at an unusual angle, conditions not at their optimum. Many longboarders meant a few different takeoff zones, and not all the guys were able to move in and out of the waves skilfully, meaning some pretty heavy congestion. All the other spots around seemed pretty much blown, except perhaps for southern Wushi gang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Picture is of some of the heaviest waves ever at the other end of the world. Thanks to Pointyhat official photographer, Lewy, for bringing these to our attention. Here's &lt;a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/gallery-e6frg7mf-1226064197062?page=1"&gt;the link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2486288477529747970?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2486288477529747970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2486288477529747970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2486288477529747970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2486288477529747970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/typhoon-aftermath.html' title='Typhoon aftermath'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c9l7EQxB_qw/TeI8fpqV4FI/AAAAAAAAEz0/EBASz32ZDwA/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3018947650781593934</id><published>2011-05-27T08:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T08:03:09.457+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Possibilities...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5PkLsurfYE8/Td7px3__AiI/AAAAAAAAEzU/hRnnuUHyayk/s1600/5-27-2011+7-57-45+AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5PkLsurfYE8/Td7px3__AiI/AAAAAAAAEzU/hRnnuUHyayk/s1600/5-27-2011+7-57-45+AM.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Looks like Saturday (or Sunday as it calms) if you can sneak past the coast guard.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3018947650781593934?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3018947650781593934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3018947650781593934&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3018947650781593934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3018947650781593934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/possibilities.html' title='Possibilities...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5PkLsurfYE8/Td7px3__AiI/AAAAAAAAEzU/hRnnuUHyayk/s72-c/5-27-2011+7-57-45+AM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5786388865193000812</id><published>2011-05-20T06:16:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T07:56:02.975+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Calm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2f2pVzIn_zo/TdWWbTv17sI/AAAAAAAAEy0/di5dPYNVmtc/s1600/230526_210997055598889_100000657880315_689658_4975718_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2f2pVzIn_zo/TdWWbTv17sI/AAAAAAAAEy0/di5dPYNVmtc/s400/230526_210997055598889_100000657880315_689658_4975718_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pretty, but reverted to type just in time for the weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surffella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Also, I watched a few heats of the Billabong Pro in Rio last night, including Martinez beating Slater. Good coverage as always. Check it &lt;a href="http://aspwtrio.com.br/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5786388865193000812?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5786388865193000812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5786388865193000812&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5786388865193000812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5786388865193000812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/calm.html' title='Calm'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2f2pVzIn_zo/TdWWbTv17sI/AAAAAAAAEy0/di5dPYNVmtc/s72-c/230526_210997055598889_100000657880315_689658_4975718_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5507077547825935988</id><published>2011-05-11T09:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-11T09:24:27.859+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, the pain!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--sV8g58zxDA/TcnlA2STq9I/AAAAAAAAEyE/3k0rce63fM0/s1600/size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--sV8g58zxDA/TcnlA2STq9I/AAAAAAAAEyE/3k0rce63fM0/s1600/size.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xgt_cgb3Fjo/TcnlCdrukHI/AAAAAAAAEyI/thyy-ULZbWE/s1600/takeoff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xgt_cgb3Fjo/TcnlCdrukHI/AAAAAAAAEyI/thyy-ULZbWE/s1600/takeoff.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is almost too much to take. Good luck to the boys out there...............&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Photos: Surffella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5507077547825935988?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5507077547825935988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5507077547825935988&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5507077547825935988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5507077547825935988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/oh-pain.html' title='Oh, the pain!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--sV8g58zxDA/TcnlA2STq9I/AAAAAAAAEyE/3k0rce63fM0/s72-c/size.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7444234099910539492</id><published>2011-05-10T14:24:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T14:25:22.337+08:00</updated><title type='text'>aahhhh!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zhCe3XyejZ0/TcjZzv-2nRI/AAAAAAAAEyA/y0AyU0Ohgu0/s1600/swell+possibles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zhCe3XyejZ0/TcjZzv-2nRI/AAAAAAAAEyA/y0AyU0Ohgu0/s640/swell+possibles.jpg" width="544" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Now, this is interesting for tomorrow...look at the swell and the wind...gotta be size and offshore somewhere! (shame we're working..................ahhhh!)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7444234099910539492?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7444234099910539492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7444234099910539492&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7444234099910539492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7444234099910539492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/now-this-is-interesting-for-tomorrow.html' title='aahhhh!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zhCe3XyejZ0/TcjZzv-2nRI/AAAAAAAAEyA/y0AyU0Ohgu0/s72-c/swell+possibles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7702976375739856212</id><published>2011-05-10T09:05:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T09:06:34.188+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wushi cracks open...on a Tuesday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLEsdgUJwYs/TciPNK50nXI/AAAAAAAAEx4/xcMui8tFmo0/s1600/wushi+swell+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLEsdgUJwYs/TciPNK50nXI/AAAAAAAAEx4/xcMui8tFmo0/s400/wushi+swell+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Ol6rOICuE/TciPOcxuL2I/AAAAAAAAEx8/4edsS3GgygE/s1600/wushi+swell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Ol6rOICuE/TciPOcxuL2I/AAAAAAAAEx8/4edsS3GgygE/s400/wushi+swell.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Frustrating................!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photos: the ever reliable "Surffella")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7702976375739856212?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7702976375739856212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7702976375739856212&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7702976375739856212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7702976375739856212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/wushi-cracks-openon-tuesday.html' title='Wushi cracks open...on a Tuesday!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLEsdgUJwYs/TciPNK50nXI/AAAAAAAAEx4/xcMui8tFmo0/s72-c/wushi+swell+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2441338092578668790</id><published>2011-05-05T13:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T13:52:31.956+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Retro action...Oct '09</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdDGii1Q6IA/TcI6ycllX8I/AAAAAAAAExI/M2zFbH7v2IA/s1600/Nan%252520Ao%252520oct%2525209%25252009%252520017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdDGii1Q6IA/TcI6ycllX8I/AAAAAAAAExI/M2zFbH7v2IA/s1600/Nan%252520Ao%252520oct%2525209%25252009%252520017.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Just a reminder that the swell does and will return. Dan in action on Dave and Dan's big day at Nanas in Oct '09.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2441338092578668790?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2441338092578668790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2441338092578668790&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2441338092578668790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2441338092578668790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/retro-actionoct-09.html' title='Retro action...Oct &apos;09'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdDGii1Q6IA/TcI6ycllX8I/AAAAAAAAExI/M2zFbH7v2IA/s72-c/Nan%252520Ao%252520oct%2525209%25252009%252520017.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5200754437847430731</id><published>2011-05-04T08:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-04T08:02:39.905+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a bit of action....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h65rIhFmwUU/TcCXR4f5-hI/AAAAAAAAExE/GBGGh9zdJq0/s1600/wushi+swell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h65rIhFmwUU/TcCXR4f5-hI/AAAAAAAAExE/GBGGh9zdJq0/s400/wushi+swell.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This was the set, a bit full and sloppy, but a little swell nonetheless: hallelujah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5200754437847430731?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5200754437847430731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5200754437847430731&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5200754437847430731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5200754437847430731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/05/bit-of-action.html' title='a bit of action....'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h65rIhFmwUU/TcCXR4f5-hI/AAAAAAAAExE/GBGGh9zdJq0/s72-c/wushi+swell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6901862563368190075</id><published>2011-04-27T08:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-27T08:54:48.427+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unusual Sight</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2uSWP-FqB-c/TbdmdDRzrFI/AAAAAAAAEwU/7PwOZVOM6mk/s1600/wushi+shipn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2uSWP-FqB-c/TbdmdDRzrFI/AAAAAAAAEwU/7PwOZVOM6mk/s400/wushi+shipn.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A fishing boat strays close to surfers this morning over at Wushi Gang. Look out for that cleanup set!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Photo: surffella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6901862563368190075?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6901862563368190075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6901862563368190075&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6901862563368190075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6901862563368190075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/unusual-sight.html' title='Unusual Sight'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2uSWP-FqB-c/TbdmdDRzrFI/AAAAAAAAEwU/7PwOZVOM6mk/s72-c/wushi+shipn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7623135107904070680</id><published>2011-04-26T15:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T15:27:32.793+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring Break</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N5r8_ozhDew/TbZzZcDlt3I/AAAAAAAAEwM/WTBo83IGH9Q/s1600/gazza+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N5r8_ozhDew/TbZzZcDlt3I/AAAAAAAAEwM/WTBo83IGH9Q/s640/gazza+2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZL1Vm8LK1zk/TbZzZqUUnhI/AAAAAAAAEwQ/0a3n8q6ye9Y/s1600/gazza+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZL1Vm8LK1zk/TbZzZqUUnhI/AAAAAAAAEwQ/0a3n8q6ye9Y/s640/gazza+1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;GP got a few beauties in Bali over the break. These were taken after a bit of a blow out later one morning/early arvo: who wants to be taking photos when there are waves to be had?!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7623135107904070680?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7623135107904070680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7623135107904070680&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7623135107904070680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7623135107904070680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-break.html' title='Spring Break'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N5r8_ozhDew/TbZzZcDlt3I/AAAAAAAAEwM/WTBo83IGH9Q/s72-c/gazza+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8585194589139005211</id><published>2011-04-24T13:12:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T13:12:41.581+08:00</updated><title type='text'>pointies: LIVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TbOxR_KAGBI/AAAAAAAAEvM/rz5r1BqwVe8/IMAG0434.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TbOxR_KAGBI/AAAAAAAAEvM/rz5r1BqwVe8/s400/IMAG0434.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;After Bells, this is kinda disappointing!&lt;div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'&gt;Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8585194589139005211?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8585194589139005211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8585194589139005211&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8585194589139005211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8585194589139005211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/pointies-live.html' title='pointies: LIVE'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TbOxR_KAGBI/AAAAAAAAEvM/rz5r1BqwVe8/s72-c/IMAG0434.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-908576772740844841</id><published>2011-04-24T11:46:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T11:46:20.860+08:00</updated><title type='text'>PARKO!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AAP6mQrPGSM/TbOc4gaNYHI/AAAAAAAAEvE/QYB-6WHMnt0/s1600/jprcfinrobbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AAP6mQrPGSM/TbOc4gaNYHI/AAAAAAAAEvE/QYB-6WHMnt0/s400/jprcfinrobbo.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Joel Parkinson (AUS), 30, has claimed the 2011 Rip Curl  Pro Bells Beach over compatriot and former  two-time ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS), 29, in an electric Final  in solid six-to-eight foot (2 – 2.5 metre) waves at Bells Beach.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-908576772740844841?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/908576772740844841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=908576772740844841&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/908576772740844841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/908576772740844841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/parko.html' title='PARKO!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AAP6mQrPGSM/TbOc4gaNYHI/AAAAAAAAEvE/QYB-6WHMnt0/s72-c/jprcfinrobbo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8237315288834007727</id><published>2011-04-23T14:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T14:53:18.284+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The next best thing to a real wave is...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e_LFRngwJmI/TbJ3Eia-UnI/AAAAAAAAEvA/COCFCf9msK0/s1600/208687_10150156828687757_552517756_6982762_829643_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e_LFRngwJmI/TbJ3Eia-UnI/AAAAAAAAEvA/COCFCf9msK0/s400/208687_10150156828687757_552517756_6982762_829643_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Clarky stylin' in the flow rider at Sentosa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8237315288834007727?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8237315288834007727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8237315288834007727&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8237315288834007727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8237315288834007727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/next-best-thing-to-real-wave-is.html' title='The next best thing to a real wave is...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e_LFRngwJmI/TbJ3Eia-UnI/AAAAAAAAEvA/COCFCf9msK0/s72-c/208687_10150156828687757_552517756_6982762_829643_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-352507870734092581</id><published>2011-04-21T06:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-21T06:32:43.721+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bells is ON!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="260" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pH8-5_oFbLY/Ta9eUcM6CsI/AAAAAAAAEu8/Q2MsmbS7UTo/s400/206763_10150158660517058_81269622057_6809610_5056526_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1344939283"&gt;The Bells classic is on. After a good start yesterday in small conditions, it is shaping up pretty today. It is the 50th anniversary of this contest, so the webcast is already throwing up some classic interviews/reminiscences with some of the old brigade. &lt;a href="http://live.ripcurl.com/index.php?bells2011"&gt;Here &lt;/a&gt;is the link.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1344939284"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-352507870734092581?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/352507870734092581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=352507870734092581&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/352507870734092581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/352507870734092581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/bells-is-on.html' title='Bells is ON!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pH8-5_oFbLY/Ta9eUcM6CsI/AAAAAAAAEu8/Q2MsmbS7UTo/s72-c/206763_10150158660517058_81269622057_6809610_5056526_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2185028024122117190</id><published>2011-04-12T21:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T21:53:27.460+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dan, Chris and Zef carve a few</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uFZbEVjD2aU/TaRYpUnzfHI/AAAAAAAAEuI/ohwvzsZHAUw/s1600/IMG_6615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uFZbEVjD2aU/TaRYpUnzfHI/AAAAAAAAEuI/ohwvzsZHAUw/s400/IMG_6615.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXyZDEBXLlM/TaRYp-0fZ-I/AAAAAAAAEuM/DWR0HPACTKc/s1600/IMG_6629.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FXyZDEBXLlM/TaRYp-0fZ-I/AAAAAAAAEuM/DWR0HPACTKc/s400/IMG_6629.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NzAGxb_NMpk/TaRYqVo8llI/AAAAAAAAEuQ/s39nxDNJLOQ/s1600/IMG_6642.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NzAGxb_NMpk/TaRYqVo8llI/AAAAAAAAEuQ/s39nxDNJLOQ/s400/IMG_6642.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-228oBGZ2-cU/TaRYrS_GbNI/AAAAAAAAEuY/ANYl588aWKY/s1600/IMG_6654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-228oBGZ2-cU/TaRYrS_GbNI/AAAAAAAAEuY/ANYl588aWKY/s400/IMG_6654.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A few nice ones on Saturday for Dan, Chris and Zef. Check slide show &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/r/FLVXZwBF0T-EJYF27exh4aC_M1wp-3BD?previous_view=lt_embedded_url"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2185028024122117190?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2185028024122117190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2185028024122117190&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2185028024122117190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2185028024122117190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/dan-chris-and-zef-carve-few.html' title='Dan, Chris and Zef carve a few'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uFZbEVjD2aU/TaRYpUnzfHI/AAAAAAAAEuI/ohwvzsZHAUw/s72-c/IMG_6615.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6907188877209665124</id><published>2011-04-09T11:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T11:19:28.655+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baishawan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpm3pTl0v0/TZ_P7hS0M8I/AAAAAAAAEsc/yILJWkve_O4/s1600/ap_F23_20110408024559391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpm3pTl0v0/TZ_P7hS0M8I/AAAAAAAAEsc/yILJWkve_O4/s400/ap_F23_20110408024559391.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tobes in style on the beach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: Baishawan daily blog)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6907188877209665124?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6907188877209665124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6907188877209665124&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6907188877209665124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6907188877209665124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/baishawan.html' title='Baishawan'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpm3pTl0v0/TZ_P7hS0M8I/AAAAAAAAEsc/yILJWkve_O4/s72-c/ap_F23_20110408024559391.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4080852346524984291</id><published>2011-04-07T16:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T16:00:43.274+08:00</updated><title type='text'>East coast Taj Mahal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rkDg7-mmT5I/TZ1uAPYLKjI/AAAAAAAAEsA/eJhtEhla-7k/s1600/IMG_0663.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rkDg7-mmT5I/TZ1uAPYLKjI/AAAAAAAAEsA/eJhtEhla-7k/s400/IMG_0663.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-shX1MJXR__E/TZ1uA5GtTFI/AAAAAAAAEsE/8n6d0FCIdKE/s1600/IMG_0664.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-shX1MJXR__E/TZ1uA5GtTFI/AAAAAAAAEsE/8n6d0FCIdKE/s400/IMG_0664.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DAqc3ES1SWY/TZ1uBe3asEI/AAAAAAAAEsI/6CKFY_vibdo/s1600/IMG_0665.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZcGJ6Dg77sQ/TZ1uCtgncKI/AAAAAAAAEsU/yscnv9k6n5Y/s1600/IMG_0670.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="282" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZcGJ6Dg77sQ/TZ1uCtgncKI/AAAAAAAAEsU/yscnv9k6n5Y/s400/IMG_0670.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9NXI9VI4k3M/TZ1uDf3HM3I/AAAAAAAAEsY/4NmhOIRWdJU/s1600/IMG_0671.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="306" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9NXI9VI4k3M/TZ1uDf3HM3I/AAAAAAAAEsY/4NmhOIRWdJU/s400/IMG_0671.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Taj was the best option for a late morning paddle. Once again, beautiful skies, clear blue water and the lack of a crowd made for a fun surf. Dave, Dan and Zef made the most of the swell on a fast bank, Evie and Nicky had a good time on shore and even Sheena found a friend to run round in circles with!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4080852346524984291?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4080852346524984291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4080852346524984291&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4080852346524984291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4080852346524984291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/east-coast-taj-mahal.html' title='East coast Taj Mahal'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rkDg7-mmT5I/TZ1uAPYLKjI/AAAAAAAAEsA/eJhtEhla-7k/s72-c/IMG_0663.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6488353258606606309</id><published>2011-04-02T13:04:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T13:10:00.660+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sparkly Jinshan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ez4nl9Wd6ss/TZatqUM0T8I/AAAAAAAAErI/i8Bh41xjgzc/s1600/IMG_0547.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ez4nl9Wd6ss/TZatqUM0T8I/AAAAAAAAErI/i8Bh41xjgzc/s640/IMG_0547.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NyEsL3xIsM/TZatqBkOtwI/AAAAAAAAErE/Y53WMnuX0kE/s1600/IMG_0546.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NyEsL3xIsM/TZatqBkOtwI/AAAAAAAAErE/Y53WMnuX0kE/s400/IMG_0546.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DsB4B1xOd7o/TZatsX7ommI/AAAAAAAAErM/9mieKPvgL-E/s1600/IMG_0550.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DsB4B1xOd7o/TZatsX7ommI/AAAAAAAAErM/9mieKPvgL-E/s400/IMG_0550.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tiny half footers greeted Simon and Dave at Jinshan and soon the Robinson clan joined the fun. What a stellar day, though! It was great to get in some (quite!) refreshing water and feel the sun...restorative. Nicky and Dan show some style. Also check out the slide show &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/r/4ETrv-4XrD9PmgJTJp7Es-q0bIhK7CzZ?previous_view=lt_embedded_url"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6488353258606606309?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6488353258606606309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6488353258606606309&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6488353258606606309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6488353258606606309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/04/sparkly-jinshan.html' title='Sparkly Jinshan'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ez4nl9Wd6ss/TZatqUM0T8I/AAAAAAAAErI/i8Bh41xjgzc/s72-c/IMG_0547.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4170521329454173149</id><published>2011-03-30T07:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T07:59:30.833+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientists find waves are getting bigger</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xJnTXBINAiE/TZJyL9r60oI/AAAAAAAAErA/xB-3bO8KR3M/s1600/waves-420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xJnTXBINAiE/TZJyL9r60oI/AAAAAAAAErA/xB-3bO8KR3M/s400/waves-420x0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.....but maybe not in Taiwan!! Check this &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/scientists-find-waves-are-getting-bigger-20110325-1c97e.html"&gt;short article.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4170521329454173149?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4170521329454173149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4170521329454173149&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4170521329454173149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4170521329454173149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/scientists-find-waves-are-getting.html' title='Scientists find waves are getting bigger'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xJnTXBINAiE/TZJyL9r60oI/AAAAAAAAErA/xB-3bO8KR3M/s72-c/waves-420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5135680713399427211</id><published>2011-03-17T19:40:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-17T19:43:35.596+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sion Milosky dies at Mavericks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rtTIx4st_yA/TYHyqdFKHZI/AAAAAAAAEqY/PyjdaY559eQ/s1600/sion-milosky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rtTIx4st_yA/TYHyqdFKHZI/AAAAAAAAEqY/PyjdaY559eQ/s1600/sion-milosky.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Noted big wave professional surfer, Sion Milosky died at Mavericks today after a two wave hold-down where his board tombstoned not allowing him to escape the second wave crashing down. (picture above NOT of this day, but of Sion's most notable achievement, where he caught the biggest ever paddle in wave at Outer Logs last year)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5135680713399427211?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5135680713399427211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5135680713399427211&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5135680713399427211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5135680713399427211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/sion-milosky-dies-at-mavericks.html' title='Sion Milosky dies at Mavericks'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rtTIx4st_yA/TYHyqdFKHZI/AAAAAAAAEqY/PyjdaY559eQ/s72-c/sion-milosky.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-212346755310817575</id><published>2011-03-17T14:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-17T14:31:14.731+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Newcastle's Surfest is ON!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-uF9gVoxtlw8/TYGqnC1UzvI/AAAAAAAAEqU/sqvrUQ4CWYc/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-uF9gVoxtlw8/TYGqnC1UzvI/AAAAAAAAEqU/sqvrUQ4CWYc/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The round of 12 to begin tomorrow...Tyler Wright powering his way onwards. Check out the beautiful sands and swells of Merewether beach (Dave's home break) through the &lt;a href="http://www.aspaustralasia.com/live/2011/surfest/"&gt;live link here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-212346755310817575?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/212346755310817575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=212346755310817575&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/212346755310817575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/212346755310817575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/newcastles-surfest-is-on.html' title='Newcastle&apos;s Surfest is ON!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-uF9gVoxtlw8/TYGqnC1UzvI/AAAAAAAAEqU/sqvrUQ4CWYc/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4112761478515909817</id><published>2011-03-14T14:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-14T14:21:48.248+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baisha...Sunday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Rnx7Y1MzuQ/TX2znhCHUaI/AAAAAAAAEqM/0lvVpIOw2nI/s1600/100_0034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Rnx7Y1MzuQ/TX2znhCHUaI/AAAAAAAAEqM/0lvVpIOw2nI/s400/100_0034.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LkfTnf29cUo/TX2zquMVM_I/AAAAAAAAEqQ/Lw9zRIciPwo/s1600/100_0035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LkfTnf29cUo/TX2zquMVM_I/AAAAAAAAEqQ/Lw9zRIciPwo/s400/100_0035.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tobes got a couple of shots of a flat and windy Baishawan on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photos: Tobes)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4112761478515909817?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4112761478515909817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4112761478515909817&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4112761478515909817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4112761478515909817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/baishasunday.html' title='Baisha...Sunday'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Rnx7Y1MzuQ/TX2znhCHUaI/AAAAAAAAEqM/0lvVpIOw2nI/s72-c/100_0034.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6811496372187588279</id><published>2011-03-09T14:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T14:06:05.138+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Slater: too good</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IPihdTBM8rw/TXcYt4dB8ZI/AAAAAAAAEpk/s_2UUCSBJzs/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="372" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IPihdTBM8rw/TXcYt4dB8ZI/AAAAAAAAEpk/s_2UUCSBJzs/s640/Presentation1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6811496372187588279?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6811496372187588279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6811496372187588279&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6811496372187588279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6811496372187588279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/slater-too-good.html' title='Slater: too good'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IPihdTBM8rw/TXcYt4dB8ZI/AAAAAAAAEpk/s_2UUCSBJzs/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2872733498411744258</id><published>2011-03-09T07:59:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T14:06:38.554+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quikky finals ON HOLD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kFPzUrUN8kw/TXbCD2pGRhI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Rx65zafy8S8/s1600/KellySlaterqgc_12_0434l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kFPzUrUN8kw/TXbCD2pGRhI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Rx65zafy8S8/s400/KellySlaterqgc_12_0434l.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is reaching boiling point with the  semi-finalists decided. Semi One - Kelly Slater vs Tiago Pires, Semi two  - Taj Burrow vs Jordy Smith.&lt;br /&gt;FINALS ON HOLD: TUNE IN LIVE AT 10AM (TAIWAN TIME) FOR A CALL.....WILL BE HELD TODAY. Here is the&lt;a href="http://www.quiksilverpro.com.au/live.en.html"&gt; live link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2872733498411744258?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2872733498411744258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2872733498411744258&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2872733498411744258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2872733498411744258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/quikky-finals-on-hold.html' title='Quikky finals ON HOLD'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kFPzUrUN8kw/TXbCD2pGRhI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Rx65zafy8S8/s72-c/KellySlaterqgc_12_0434l.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2255824814486792719</id><published>2011-03-08T10:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T10:29:56.168+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Jinshan Saturday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AaZJsOFXdck/TXWUGkY-x5I/AAAAAAAAEpc/d6nnRPBPNW8/s1600/DSC06264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AaZJsOFXdck/TXWUGkY-x5I/AAAAAAAAEpc/d6nnRPBPNW8/s400/DSC06264.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dan and Zef joined Chris to get a few nice clean ones rolling through at Jinshan on Saturday, mid-morning. Unfortunately, it died out and the wind got at it within an hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: Robinson)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2255824814486792719?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2255824814486792719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2255824814486792719&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2255824814486792719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2255824814486792719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/03/jinshan-saturday.html' title='Jinshan Saturday'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-AaZJsOFXdck/TXWUGkY-x5I/AAAAAAAAEpc/d6nnRPBPNW8/s72-c/DSC06264.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4283838107600119826</id><published>2011-02-27T15:28:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T15:28:55.177+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunrise over Wushi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H7Sgd_Wv8V4/TWn8-NWJCbI/AAAAAAAAEoU/ZeoW0VHNtps/s1600/184923_191550607543534_100000657880315_554673_3245313_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H7Sgd_Wv8V4/TWn8-NWJCbI/AAAAAAAAEoU/ZeoW0VHNtps/s400/184923_191550607543534_100000657880315_554673_3245313_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;tidy.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(Photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4283838107600119826?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4283838107600119826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4283838107600119826&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4283838107600119826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4283838107600119826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/sunrise-over-wushi.html' title='Sunrise over Wushi'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H7Sgd_Wv8V4/TWn8-NWJCbI/AAAAAAAAEoU/ZeoW0VHNtps/s72-c/184923_191550607543534_100000657880315_554673_3245313_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6949730217433834069</id><published>2011-02-27T08:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T08:30:31.129+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Quikky Pro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YpSLgw_1ZZ8/TWmagdbHa7I/AAAAAAAAEoQ/fXj8mt5Ymhs/s1600/Picture1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="237" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YpSLgw_1ZZ8/TWmagdbHa7I/AAAAAAAAEoQ/fXj8mt5Ymhs/s400/Picture1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Here's a link to the&lt;a href="http://www.quiksilverpro.com.au/live.en.html"&gt; live coverage&lt;/a&gt;. Expression session today due to lack of swell, but great to have the competition season up and running again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6949730217433834069?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6949730217433834069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6949730217433834069&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6949730217433834069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6949730217433834069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/quikky-pro.html' title='The Quikky Pro'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YpSLgw_1ZZ8/TWmagdbHa7I/AAAAAAAAEoQ/fXj8mt5Ymhs/s72-c/Picture1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2381572381073309178</id><published>2011-02-24T15:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T15:08:46.554+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Soul of Surfing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gLa9kCIGALg/TWYDmW-5akI/AAAAAAAAEoM/emVmyMY3Z3s/s1600/Surf-Safari-Indonesia--1--420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gLa9kCIGALg/TWYDmW-5akI/AAAAAAAAEoM/emVmyMY3Z3s/s1600/Surf-Safari-Indonesia--1--420x0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;West Papua has the &lt;a href="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/swell-frontier-20110218-1ayx2.html"&gt;soul of surfing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(thanks to "The Age" and Lewey)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2381572381073309178?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2381572381073309178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2381572381073309178&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2381572381073309178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2381572381073309178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/soul-of-surfing.html' title='Soul of Surfing'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gLa9kCIGALg/TWYDmW-5akI/AAAAAAAAEoM/emVmyMY3Z3s/s72-c/Surf-Safari-Indonesia--1--420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3324168402136518608</id><published>2011-02-19T09:47:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T15:04:06.075+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WC0u-9Gyt-c/TV8hPkhcFRI/AAAAAAAAEnQ/XMQKYA4Wfu4/s1600/45741_460658907462_108605392462_6308662_5388763_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WC0u-9Gyt-c/TV8hPkhcFRI/AAAAAAAAEnQ/XMQKYA4Wfu4/s400/45741_460658907462_108605392462_6308662_5388763_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3324168402136518608?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3324168402136518608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3324168402136518608&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3324168402136518608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3324168402136518608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html' title='Wow!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WC0u-9Gyt-c/TV8hPkhcFRI/AAAAAAAAEnQ/XMQKYA4Wfu4/s72-c/45741_460658907462_108605392462_6308662_5388763_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5019803677377984074</id><published>2011-02-14T16:51:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T16:52:47.965+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tasmanian Nirvana</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aepgCGbdS2A/TVjscZ4ntEI/AAAAAAAAEnM/go_Dma6RFII/s1600/IMG_0668.jpg_w625_h417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aepgCGbdS2A/TVjscZ4ntEI/AAAAAAAAEnM/go_Dma6RFII/s400/IMG_0668.jpg_w625_h417.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;While our man Robbo goes in search of Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz (more on this when he returns in a week or so), there are others finding surfing gold back in Australia. Here, &lt;span class="zp_uneditable zp_uneditable_image_desc"&gt;Taswegians Jy  Johannesson and Ethan Wilson decided to jump on their pushies and take a  trip through an undisclosed national park in their chosen southern  state. 3-4 foot peaks were found, ripped and then left alone, like  no-one was ever there. Rourkey, Wal, Lewy....where is this place??!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="zp_uneditable zp_uneditable_image_desc"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;( Photo: Australian Surfing Life)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5019803677377984074?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5019803677377984074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5019803677377984074&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5019803677377984074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5019803677377984074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/tasmanian-nirvana.html' title='Tasmanian Nirvana'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aepgCGbdS2A/TVjscZ4ntEI/AAAAAAAAEnM/go_Dma6RFII/s72-c/IMG_0668.jpg_w625_h417.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1586065722182484366</id><published>2011-02-09T15:15:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T21:20:29.884+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pointy of the Month: Rourkey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TVI9udSjTRI/AAAAAAAAEmg/IyTT62cCsl0/s1600/167802_10150354328825431_742430430_16365931_3195645_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TVI9udSjTRI/AAAAAAAAEmg/IyTT62cCsl0/s400/167802_10150354328825431_742430430_16365931_3195645_n.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Name or nickname: &lt;/b&gt;Shaun&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Favorite surfing beach:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.takeabreak.com.au/photos/5829/042.JPG&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.takeabreak.com.au/Carlton-Beach/Hobart/Carlton-Beach-Holiday-House.htm&amp;amp;usg=__cZU53UeN0LWYXqRTxrXJXxLivac=&amp;amp;h=265&amp;amp;w=400&amp;amp;sz=15&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;start=0&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=KNQhcq0hl-sybM:&amp;amp;tbnh=147&amp;amp;tbnw=194&amp;amp;ei=6-VTTfPTDojCvgPWxLHvCA&amp;amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarlton%2Bbeach%2Bhobart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D576%26tbs%3Disch:1&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;iact=hc&amp;amp;vpx=542&amp;amp;vpy=302&amp;amp;dur=82&amp;amp;hovh=183&amp;amp;hovw=276&amp;amp;tx=155&amp;amp;ty=181&amp;amp;oei=6-VTTfPTDojCvgPWxLHvCA&amp;amp;esq=1&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;ndsp=13&amp;amp;ved=1t:429,r:11,s:0"&gt;Carlton Beach&lt;/a&gt;, Hobart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Best surfing moment (describe):&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;Wouldn’t call myself a surfer, but winning some body surf competitions in between rounds of beach cricket would be a highlight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Surfing hero (and why):&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.billabong.com.au/team-rider/surf/5/occy"&gt;Occy &lt;/a&gt;– anyone who can get that fat and then come back and win a world title, deserves respect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Favored board type:&lt;/b&gt; As long as possible so I have a chance of standing&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surfing maneuver you’d love to do:&lt;/b&gt; Tube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dream surf spot:&lt;/b&gt; Surf in the &lt;a href="http://theeddie.quiksilver.com/"&gt;Eddy &lt;/a&gt;competition in Hawaii, first off, I have my sights on the 1 footers at Baishawan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other sport (play) and (watch):&lt;/b&gt; Aussie Rules, Cricket are the two I like the most&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Greatest personal sporting moment(s):&lt;/b&gt; Had none – all were done sitting on the couch watching tv&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ultimate pin up:&lt;/b&gt; Dave Braggett&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Food:&lt;/b&gt; Yes please and I will have two of them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Drink (variety):&lt;/b&gt; Coke zero has my fancy at the moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thing you miss most about home:&lt;/b&gt; Having a backyard and a dog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thing you like best about Taiwan: &lt;/b&gt;People, food and having a nanny&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music:&lt;/b&gt; I have not heard anything new for the last 10 years – I am turning into an old person who refuses to listen to any new music…very sad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Best advice you’ve ever had:&lt;/b&gt; Do your best…and win.&amp;nbsp; Frequently given to me by Jack O’Rourke – Grandfather , I often proved that the two did not necessarily go hand in hand&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Movie:&lt;/b&gt; Shawshank Redemption, Dances with Wolves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Collections:&lt;/b&gt; 2 stamps, 3 coins and 3 years worth of lint from my bellybutton&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who would play you in a movie?&lt;/b&gt; A taller and better looking &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_03/SmallTomSPL_468x720.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-517443/Katie-Holmes-says-goodbye-Posh-bob.html&amp;amp;usg=__vV_GC_E6xrzBLBIFh-ltDwAJhcs=&amp;amp;h=720&amp;amp;w=468&amp;amp;sz=84&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;start=0&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;tbnid=LOqMpbiiILs5VM:&amp;amp;tbnh=131&amp;amp;tbnw=90&amp;amp;ei=rOVTTbiYH4u4sQP33JX2CA&amp;amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtom%2Bcruise%2Bheight%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D576%26tbs%3Disch:1&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;itbs=1&amp;amp;iact=hc&amp;amp;vpx=131&amp;amp;vpy=198&amp;amp;dur=339&amp;amp;hovh=160&amp;amp;hovw=104&amp;amp;tx=79&amp;amp;ty=158&amp;amp;oei=UuVTTbqKM4qEvAOAq5zwCA&amp;amp;esq=7&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;ndsp=21&amp;amp;ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0"&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Current car:&lt;/b&gt; Mazda MPV 2003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dream car:&lt;/b&gt; Mazda MPV 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Near death experience:&lt;/b&gt; Cycling in YangmingShan and had a head on with a car, I was hurt but you should have seen the car!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your idea of a great night out:&lt;/b&gt; Watching Wol on the dance floor and busting some moves – always brings with it a chuckle or two.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Philosophy on life:&lt;/b&gt; Things always happen for a reason&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1586065722182484366?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1586065722182484366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1586065722182484366&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1586065722182484366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1586065722182484366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/pointy-of-month-rourkey.html' title='Pointy of the Month: Rourkey'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TVI9udSjTRI/AAAAAAAAEmg/IyTT62cCsl0/s72-c/167802_10150354328825431_742430430_16365931_3195645_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7592820817590329479</id><published>2011-02-04T21:10:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T16:04:54.905+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Wave contenders...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUv6RepgiwI/AAAAAAAAElc/4kylNBP3VhI/s1600/Picture1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="262" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUv6RepgiwI/AAAAAAAAElc/4kylNBP3VhI/s400/Picture1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Big wave finalists are at&lt;a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/photo-gallery/gallery-e6frf94x-1226000165017?page=1"&gt; this link&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks to Lewy, our official photographer now on official assignment in Singapore, for continuing to supply us with these great links!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7592820817590329479?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7592820817590329479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7592820817590329479&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7592820817590329479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7592820817590329479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-wave-contenders.html' title='Big Wave contenders...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUv6RepgiwI/AAAAAAAAElc/4kylNBP3VhI/s72-c/Picture1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5677021893024936791</id><published>2011-02-01T14:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T14:56:50.371+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pre New Year: North</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetaim3FQI/AAAAAAAAEk8/SJ-2P212q3c/s1600/IMG_0486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetaim3FQI/AAAAAAAAEk8/SJ-2P212q3c/s400/IMG_0486.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pointies far end: rideable left&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetbB4IbLI/AAAAAAAAElA/N_8J8qpdVPc/s1600/IMG_0490.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetbB4IbLI/AAAAAAAAElA/N_8J8qpdVPc/s400/IMG_0490.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cliffs: no&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetb2MIayI/AAAAAAAAElE/qxdQptBb07Q/s1600/IMG_0491.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetb2MIayI/AAAAAAAAElE/qxdQptBb07Q/s400/IMG_0491.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Green Bay far end: two or three more foot needed&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetcZptrAI/AAAAAAAAElI/1l0WMiMdADg/s1600/IMG_0492.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetcZptrAI/AAAAAAAAElI/1l0WMiMdADg/s400/IMG_0492.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Howard Plaza end: passing&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetc30stRI/AAAAAAAAElM/WeWb38IkG90/s1600/IMG_0495.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetc30stRI/AAAAAAAAElM/WeWb38IkG90/s400/IMG_0495.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lone guy at the Rocket&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetdVznr7I/AAAAAAAAElQ/DswuRTA0rR4/s1600/IMG_0496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetdVznr7I/AAAAAAAAElQ/DswuRTA0rR4/s400/IMG_0496.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jinshan: too low and scrappy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetdwOrJjI/AAAAAAAAElU/u765YB2ELTs/s1600/IMG_0497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetdwOrJjI/AAAAAAAAElU/u765YB2ELTs/s400/IMG_0497.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Back to Pointies: best of a bad bunch&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Desperate tour up north didn't really come up with much, but at least Dave was left without wondering if that next spot was pumping: he checked 'em all!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5677021893024936791?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5677021893024936791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5677021893024936791&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5677021893024936791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5677021893024936791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/02/pre-new-year-north.html' title='Pre New Year: North'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TUetaim3FQI/AAAAAAAAEk8/SJ-2P212q3c/s72-c/IMG_0486.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3540987458637857673</id><published>2011-01-23T09:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-23T09:18:26.683+08:00</updated><title type='text'>South of Wushi Gang</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TTuBg-gjaGI/AAAAAAAAEjo/Ns9YefO56DU/s1600/ap_F23_20110123081813925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TTuBg-gjaGI/AAAAAAAAEjo/Ns9YefO56DU/s400/ap_F23_20110123081813925.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Bit of backwash, but some golden moments early at the little break south of the harbour this morning.&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt; (Photo: surffella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3540987458637857673?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3540987458637857673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3540987458637857673&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3540987458637857673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3540987458637857673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/01/south-of-wushi-gang.html' title='South of Wushi Gang'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TTuBg-gjaGI/AAAAAAAAEjo/Ns9YefO56DU/s72-c/ap_F23_20110123081813925.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-9023051153520827198</id><published>2011-01-01T13:28:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T13:28:33.200+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Taj Thursday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TR67K4HBqXI/AAAAAAAAEhk/kzXKZugxPhE/s1600/IMAG0267.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="301" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TR67K4HBqXI/AAAAAAAAEhk/kzXKZugxPhE/s400/IMAG0267.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TR67NIARjNI/AAAAAAAAEho/y_cQfj-sc0E/s1600/IMAG0268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="301" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TR67NIARjNI/AAAAAAAAEho/y_cQfj-sc0E/s400/IMAG0268.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Taj was pretty dreary on Thursday but there were a few mushy waves to be had in the afternoon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-9023051153520827198?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/9023051153520827198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=9023051153520827198&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/9023051153520827198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/9023051153520827198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2011/01/taj-thursday.html' title='Taj Thursday'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TR67K4HBqXI/AAAAAAAAEhk/kzXKZugxPhE/s72-c/IMAG0267.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7899845631063337063</id><published>2010-12-13T14:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T14:44:24.954+08:00</updated><title type='text'>40,000 here we come!</title><content type='html'>We're approaching 40,000 hits, so I thought we'd celebrate with a new template design. I've kept the banner at the top, cos it looked a bit weird without it. If you're desperate to get the old template back just let me know, but I kinda like this one with the surfer traveling down the page with you, just sitting elusively outside that barrel....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7899845631063337063?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7899845631063337063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7899845631063337063&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7899845631063337063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7899845631063337063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/12/40000-here-we-come.html' title='40,000 here we come!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3391286589237369230</id><published>2010-12-08T14:53:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T14:33:47.070+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Uh Oh!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TP8oueiwHDI/AAAAAAAAEeo/oNriwLXTP8M/s1600/Presentation1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="175" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TP8oueiwHDI/AAAAAAAAEeo/oNriwLXTP8M/s400/Presentation1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tobes showed me his glossy new issue of "The Surfer's Journal" today. It looks unreal, BUT, there's a beautiful feature article on the allure of Taiwan. Maybe, planes full of surfer dudes might come, see what we &lt;i&gt;usually &lt;/i&gt;see, then stay away forever more!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3391286589237369230?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3391286589237369230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3391286589237369230&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3391286589237369230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3391286589237369230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/12/uh-oh.html' title='Uh Oh!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TP8oueiwHDI/AAAAAAAAEeo/oNriwLXTP8M/s72-c/Presentation1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3054159123885715124</id><published>2010-12-06T18:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T18:03:26.000+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tobes and Gp stylin' at Baisha!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPy0vbFVEbI/AAAAAAAAEeg/b_cf00vt9VM/s1600/ap_F23_20101205051610220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPy0vbFVEbI/AAAAAAAAEeg/b_cf00vt9VM/s400/ap_F23_20101205051610220.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The boys had a ball this weekend. Check out the show above, or at this &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/r/wC-ijLRT3z_NZ4WG--0ETtUAfS9lJ2Ka"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3054159123885715124?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3054159123885715124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3054159123885715124&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3054159123885715124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3054159123885715124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/12/tobes-and-gp-stylin-at-baisha.html' title='Tobes and Gp stylin&apos; at Baisha!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPy0vbFVEbI/AAAAAAAAEeg/b_cf00vt9VM/s72-c/ap_F23_20101205051610220.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-5877578157090628075</id><published>2010-12-06T06:34:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T06:34:58.935+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Inside the barrel at Uluwatu...</title><content type='html'>Must see &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/14121224"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-5877578157090628075?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/5877578157090628075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=5877578157090628075&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5877578157090628075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/5877578157090628075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/12/inside-barrel-at-uluwatu.html' title='Inside the barrel at Uluwatu...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1046657653010561968</id><published>2010-11-28T21:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-28T21:31:41.740+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Point X</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZKKYEkXI/AAAAAAAAEd0/XYADPwr5umw/s1600/DSC00786.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="163" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZKKYEkXI/AAAAAAAAEd0/XYADPwr5umw/s400/DSC00786.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZKwsLPvI/AAAAAAAAEd4/7lrDo9O05as/s1600/DSC04579.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="165" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZKwsLPvI/AAAAAAAAEd4/7lrDo9O05as/s400/DSC04579.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZLq12pyI/AAAAAAAAEd8/-ttebFDz-jI/s1600/DSC04593.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="162" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZLq12pyI/AAAAAAAAEd8/-ttebFDz-jI/s400/DSC04593.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Robinsons got Su Ao at a nice consistency today. Quite a crew in the water and there were more getting out when they arrived at 9.&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photos: Dan and Nicky)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1046657653010561968?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1046657653010561968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1046657653010561968&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1046657653010561968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1046657653010561968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/11/point-x.html' title='Point X'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPJZKKYEkXI/AAAAAAAAEd0/XYADPwr5umw/s72-c/DSC00786.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1699333025054718569</id><published>2010-11-27T22:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T22:06:59.003+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Not much...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPEPtkBT2WI/AAAAAAAAEdo/ZRqERasqJ6I/s1600/IMG_0044_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="362" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPEPtkBT2WI/AAAAAAAAEdo/ZRqERasqJ6I/s400/IMG_0044_1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPEPuryXgRI/AAAAAAAAEds/cCDGbT88I8E/s1600/IMG_0046_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPEPuryXgRI/AAAAAAAAEds/cCDGbT88I8E/s400/IMG_0046_1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dave got a few sloppy Jinshan waves (above) before conditions got even worse. The Robbos turned up but didn't waste their time on this slop, rather headed for Greenies/Baishawan for a look see. Good to get in the water though...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1699333025054718569?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1699333025054718569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1699333025054718569&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1699333025054718569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1699333025054718569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/11/not-much.html' title='Not much...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPEPtkBT2WI/AAAAAAAAEdo/ZRqERasqJ6I/s72-c/IMG_0044_1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1044993031427042431</id><published>2010-11-27T11:45:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T11:45:43.014+08:00</updated><title type='text'>jinshan LIVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPB-5Ow4V4I/AAAAAAAAEc4/hqRTqEmhTl4/IMAG0245.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPB-5Ow4V4I/AAAAAAAAEc4/hqRTqEmhTl4/s400/IMAG0245.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;sloppy + stormy, but maybe a few to be had&lt;div style='clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPBMM8ebMRI/AAAAAAAAEcw/ZSWzHjoVBDc/s1600/ap_F23_20101126011822112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPBMM8ebMRI/AAAAAAAAEcw/ZSWzHjoVBDc/s400/ap_F23_20101126011822112.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8753368935397783497?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8753368935397783497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8753368935397783497&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8753368935397783497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8753368935397783497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/11/baishawan-yesterday.html' title='Baishawan yesterday'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TPBMM8ebMRI/AAAAAAAAEcw/ZSWzHjoVBDc/s72-c/ap_F23_20101126011822112.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3898650147088993901</id><published>2010-11-15T15:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-15T15:17:02.976+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pointyhats hit Singapore!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TODdUEUu--I/AAAAAAAAEcA/AJqzrgzKCBA/s1600/IMAG0225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TODdUEUu--I/AAAAAAAAEcA/AJqzrgzKCBA/s400/IMAG0225.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dave and Wal had a great weekend in Singapore. Golf, races, beers etc. but the highlight was catching up with Singaporean Pointyhat members, Josh, Lewy and Clarky. It was a rollickin' weekend even though a bit of a haze at times!&lt;br /&gt;Clarky had some great stories of his trip last week to Shipwrecks: he got some classic conditions, edgy and exciting, offshore and clear, juicing up loads of adrenalin with a bunch of mates. He still had a big smile on his face this weekend, so it was an epic session.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3898650147088993901?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3898650147088993901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3898650147088993901&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3898650147088993901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3898650147088993901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/11/pointyhats-hit-singapore.html' title='Pointyhats hit Singapore!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TODdUEUu--I/AAAAAAAAEcA/AJqzrgzKCBA/s72-c/IMAG0225.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6203018430226837858</id><published>2010-11-03T16:46:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T19:23:13.038+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Irons...gone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TNFGDKhJlxI/AAAAAAAAEa0/RbYt8Y2ew5s/s1600/irons420-420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TNFGDKhJlxI/AAAAAAAAEa0/RbYt8Y2ew5s/s400/irons420-420x0.jpg" width="305" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sad news re Andy Irons...check video above. On a brighter note, Steph Gilmore just secured her 4th world women's crown after just 4 attempts...impressive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6203018430226837858?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6203018430226837858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6203018430226837858&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6203018430226837858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6203018430226837858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/11/ironsgone.html' title='Irons...gone'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TNFGDKhJlxI/AAAAAAAAEa0/RbYt8Y2ew5s/s72-c/irons420-420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-705702291109886170</id><published>2010-10-29T06:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T06:19:18.742+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waves magazine...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMn2WoF3AII/AAAAAAAAEaQ/iv4iwcwSn2M/s1600/wave1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="424" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMn2WoF3AII/AAAAAAAAEaQ/iv4iwcwSn2M/s640/wave1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Andrew Chisolm's magazine cover of the year. &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(thanks to Pointyhat official photographer, Lewy, for forwarding the shot)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-705702291109886170?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/705702291109886170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=705702291109886170&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/705702291109886170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/705702291109886170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/waves-magazine.html' title='Waves magazine...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMn2WoF3AII/AAAAAAAAEaQ/iv4iwcwSn2M/s72-c/wave1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1867133555686551217</id><published>2010-10-27T12:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-27T12:07:44.348+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dreamin' on</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMelHhi65RI/AAAAAAAAEaM/OR5v2MkNPeQ/s1600/swell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="355" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMelHhi65RI/AAAAAAAAEaM/OR5v2MkNPeQ/s400/swell.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;If you've got bigger jewels than me and the road to nanas is open again, you could probably get some epic stuff down there in the next couple days...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1867133555686551217?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1867133555686551217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1867133555686551217&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1867133555686551217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1867133555686551217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/dreamin-on.html' title='Dreamin&apos; on'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMelHhi65RI/AAAAAAAAEaM/OR5v2MkNPeQ/s72-c/swell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4712769804973118520</id><published>2010-10-25T15:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T15:24:34.340+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stellar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUugFOZJgI/AAAAAAAAEaI/WCh8_FuUjs0/s1600/ap_F23_20101023063224160.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUugFOZJgI/AAAAAAAAEaI/WCh8_FuUjs0/s400/ap_F23_20101023063224160.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tobes has confirmed Gary's opinion that this was a stellar surf weekend. Saturday (above) had a touch more size, but there was quality surf everywhere. Tobes was buzzed! Great to see people getting some quality waves: more on the way it seems.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4712769804973118520?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4712769804973118520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4712769804973118520&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4712769804973118520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4712769804973118520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/stellar.html' title='Stellar'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUugFOZJgI/AAAAAAAAEaI/WCh8_FuUjs0/s72-c/ap_F23_20101023063224160.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1481488144692245259</id><published>2010-10-25T13:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T13:56:11.852+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Ever</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUbsEDwi6I/AAAAAAAAEaE/sjwEZfoWxxA/s1600/ap_F23_20101023063214201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUbsEDwi6I/AAAAAAAAEaE/sjwEZfoWxxA/s400/ap_F23_20101023063214201.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Best surf ever at Baishawan? GP reckons it might be for him anyway over the weekend.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1481488144692245259?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1481488144692245259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1481488144692245259&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1481488144692245259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1481488144692245259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/best-ever.html' title='Best Ever'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TMUbsEDwi6I/AAAAAAAAEaE/sjwEZfoWxxA/s72-c/ap_F23_20101023063214201.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-7142879242523219094</id><published>2010-10-20T18:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T18:42:17.847+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wushi Days</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TL7Hdeu9MzI/AAAAAAAAEZc/d64jvboamsc/s1600/ap_F23_20101019044359630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TL7Hdeu9MzI/AAAAAAAAEZc/d64jvboamsc/s640/ap_F23_20101019044359630.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wushi gang was crankin' &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surffella/article?mid=24434&amp;amp;prev=24508&amp;amp;next=24433"&gt;yesterday morning&lt;/a&gt;, but kinda looked even better this afternoon as Surfella's resident photographer did a rare double shoot. Here's &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surffella/article?mid=24508&amp;amp;prev=24545&amp;amp;next=24434"&gt;this morning&lt;/a&gt; and here's the smoothed out smaller action&lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surffella/article?mid=24545&amp;amp;prev=24022&amp;amp;next=24508"&gt; this afternoon&lt;/a&gt;. Damn this work thing!&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Gp and Scott for the tip about this action, and thanks to the legend out on the east coast who posts this stuff daily....we salute you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(action: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-7142879242523219094?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/7142879242523219094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=7142879242523219094&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7142879242523219094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/7142879242523219094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/wushi-days.html' title='Wushi Days'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TL7Hdeu9MzI/AAAAAAAAEZc/d64jvboamsc/s72-c/ap_F23_20101019044359630.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8859396620856551008</id><published>2010-10-17T10:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T10:29:16.912+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shark attack victim re-enters the water</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpfPN_qquI/AAAAAAAAEYg/rpsUdkSJcUM/s1600/Paul-deGelder-420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpfPN_qquI/AAAAAAAAEYg/rpsUdkSJcUM/s400/Paul-deGelder-420x0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Good on this bloke. Story &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/shark-victim-rides-again-20101016-16oaz.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8859396620856551008?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8859396620856551008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8859396620856551008&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8859396620856551008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8859396620856551008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/shark-attack-victim-re-enters-water.html' title='Shark attack victim re-enters the water'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpfPN_qquI/AAAAAAAAEYg/rpsUdkSJcUM/s72-c/Paul-deGelder-420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-201022199090685332</id><published>2010-10-17T10:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T10:18:20.346+08:00</updated><title type='text'>a little green ball action...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpcT6M10xI/AAAAAAAAEYc/6CGVH7OWJQ0/s1600/ap_F23_20101017124454400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpcT6M10xI/AAAAAAAAEYc/6CGVH7OWJQ0/s400/ap_F23_20101017124454400.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Green Ball attracts its usual small army of adventurers this morning...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(thanks to &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surf70tw2000/article?mid=5487&amp;amp;prev=-1&amp;amp;next=5446"&gt;Baishawan daily blog&lt;/a&gt; for photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-201022199090685332?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/201022199090685332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=201022199090685332&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/201022199090685332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/201022199090685332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-green-ball-action.html' title='a little green ball action...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLpcT6M10xI/AAAAAAAAEYc/6CGVH7OWJQ0/s72-c/ap_F23_20101017124454400.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8724854292650090071</id><published>2010-10-11T07:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T07:32:57.457+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clean miniatures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLJMmXsqzsI/AAAAAAAAEYY/6g4FgZggp54/s1600/ap_F23_20101011071350324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLJMmXsqzsI/AAAAAAAAEYY/6g4FgZggp54/s400/ap_F23_20101011071350324.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Wushi gang this morning at 7 a.m.&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt; (photo by &lt;a href="http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surffella/article?mid=24183&amp;amp;prev=24022&amp;amp;next=24171"&gt;Surfella&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8724854292650090071?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8724854292650090071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8724854292650090071&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8724854292650090071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8724854292650090071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/clean-miniatures.html' title='Clean miniatures'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLJMmXsqzsI/AAAAAAAAEYY/6g4FgZggp54/s72-c/ap_F23_20101011071350324.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3229228940581513271</id><published>2010-10-10T11:57:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-10T14:43:39.930+08:00</updated><title type='text'>LIVE: from cliffs ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLE5pyfrezI/AAAAAAAAEXo/xWQZhbFoPYg/IMAG0144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLE5pyfrezI/AAAAAAAAEXo/xWQZhbFoPYg/s400/IMAG0144.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great fun as the tide drops...!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; font-size: xx-small; text-align: center;"&gt;Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3229228940581513271?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3229228940581513271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3229228940581513271&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3229228940581513271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3229228940581513271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/live-from-cliffs.html' title='LIVE: from cliffs ...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLE5pyfrezI/AAAAAAAAEXo/xWQZhbFoPYg/s72-c/IMAG0144.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8805100805934474127</id><published>2010-10-10T10:55:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-10T10:55:20.237+08:00</updated><title type='text'>LIVE: north</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLEq9YlbKNI/AAAAAAAAEXk/MhClVn6R5Jw/IMAG0141.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLEq9YlbKNI/AAAAAAAAEXk/MhClVn6R5Jw/s400/IMAG0141.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Not much happening, but fun tiny  wave here &lt;div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'&gt;Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8805100805934474127?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8805100805934474127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8805100805934474127&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8805100805934474127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8805100805934474127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/live-north.html' title='LIVE: north'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TLEq9YlbKNI/AAAAAAAAEXk/MhClVn6R5Jw/s72-c/IMAG0141.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3672151309163672130</id><published>2010-10-05T10:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T10:50:25.644+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Uh oh</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKqSCyu1zmI/AAAAAAAAEXI/sSKiroGPHBM/s1600/wave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="331" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKqSCyu1zmI/AAAAAAAAEXI/sSKiroGPHBM/s640/wave.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Check the arm (mid picture, far right) One of the most frightening Shipstern's wipeouts ever. See the sequence &lt;a href="http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/sequence-of-the-week-rudi-schwartz_48129/#"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3672151309163672130?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3672151309163672130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3672151309163672130&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3672151309163672130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3672151309163672130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/10/uh-oh.html' title='Uh oh'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKqSCyu1zmI/AAAAAAAAEXI/sSKiroGPHBM/s72-c/wave.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3009425877772273484</id><published>2010-09-28T09:05:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-28T09:08:01.846+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baisha Saturday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_TBoGdLI/AAAAAAAAEWc/Tc-uTq3qLuo/s1600/evie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_TBoGdLI/AAAAAAAAEWc/Tc-uTq3qLuo/s400/evie.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_Tr8gWcI/AAAAAAAAEWg/0dkJQ_Q5YEQ/s1600/dan+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_Tr8gWcI/AAAAAAAAEWg/0dkJQ_Q5YEQ/s400/dan+1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_Tw__b8I/AAAAAAAAEWk/dXuaFgX76oQ/s1600/dan+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_Tw__b8I/AAAAAAAAEWk/dXuaFgX76oQ/s400/dan+2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dan and Evie &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photos courtesy of http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/surf70tw2000/)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3009425877772273484?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3009425877772273484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3009425877772273484&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3009425877772273484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3009425877772273484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/baisha-saturday.html' title='Baisha Saturday'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TKE_TBoGdLI/AAAAAAAAEWc/Tc-uTq3qLuo/s72-c/evie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8610324066985802053</id><published>2010-09-22T18:19:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-22T18:19:16.258+08:00</updated><title type='text'>LIVE testing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJnYIkttJpI/AAAAAAAAEWY/CLXc9CgPKCQ/IMAG0011.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJnYIkttJpI/AAAAAAAAEWY/CLXc9CgPKCQ/s400/IMAG0011.jpg' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;New phone with camera.  Live updates will be theoretically possible if this works. Keyboard shot in lieu of any waves in my apartment!&lt;div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'&gt;Published with Blogger-droid v1.5.9&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8610324066985802053?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8610324066985802053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8610324066985802053&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8610324066985802053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8610324066985802053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/live-testing.html' title='LIVE testing'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJnYIkttJpI/AAAAAAAAEWY/CLXc9CgPKCQ/s72-c/IMAG0011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4281573896178434561</id><published>2010-09-17T13:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T13:58:59.705+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Charts Check...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCCdzZnrI/AAAAAAAAEU0/hvTLWAFmjNo/s1600/Taiwan.maxenergy.48.17a2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="282" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCCdzZnrI/AAAAAAAAEU0/hvTLWAFmjNo/s400/Taiwan.maxenergy.48.17a2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCILijvzI/AAAAAAAAEU8/9U5mdyfp8nQ/s1600/wave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="307" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCILijvzI/AAAAAAAAEU8/9U5mdyfp8nQ/s400/wave.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCVYcjYlI/AAAAAAAAEVM/smHeCKHDxxE/s320/marineM00.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;current conditions...&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCVYcjYlI/AAAAAAAAEVM/smHeCKHDxxE/s1600/marineM00.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMDFBeQi_I/AAAAAAAAEVU/Sq7Vs7pu7GM/s1600/WFC48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMDFBeQi_I/AAAAAAAAEVU/Sq7Vs7pu7GM/s400/WFC48.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCN2nGnUI/AAAAAAAAEVE/W55b0ubXo-g/s1600/sunday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="271" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCN2nGnUI/AAAAAAAAEVE/W55b0ubXo-g/s400/sunday.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Most for midnight Saturday till Sunday morning, except one which is labeled "current conditions."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4281573896178434561?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4281573896178434561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4281573896178434561&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4281573896178434561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4281573896178434561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/charts-check.html' title='Charts Check...'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJMCCdzZnrI/AAAAAAAAEU0/hvTLWAFmjNo/s72-c/Taiwan.maxenergy.48.17a2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-4653733039048712919</id><published>2010-09-17T11:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T11:45:45.876+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Packing a punch: in both hemispheres</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLiV-CYkuI/AAAAAAAAEUc/EgiTh17Q6Nc/s1600/1_surf-420x0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLiV-CYkuI/AAAAAAAAEUc/EgiTh17Q6Nc/s400/1_surf-420x0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The biggest wave ever recorded powered through Tasmanian waters yesterday at a crazy 18.4 metres (yes, metres, not feet!). The same swell is predicted to produce a &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/australias-biggest-wave-heralds-huge-surf-for-sydney-20100917-15f23.html?autostart=1"&gt;monster surf in Sydney&lt;/a&gt; this weekend. The photo shows Manly this morning as it builds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, Taiwan itself will also feel some power this weekend, but we'll wait and see if we can get out past the coast guard somewhere as Typhoon Fanapi rumbles across. The east coast was certainly building in strength this morning...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLj4JshywI/AAAAAAAAEUk/HniNusEvvtU/s1600/ap_F23_20100917071816800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLj4JshywI/AAAAAAAAEUk/HniNusEvvtU/s400/ap_F23_20100917071816800.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLkRC6m9bI/AAAAAAAAEUs/tjlUIJOJG0A/s1600/ap_F23_20100917072321834.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLkRC6m9bI/AAAAAAAAEUs/tjlUIJOJG0A/s400/ap_F23_20100917072321834.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and I just love this shot. The girls are certainly showing the guys how it's done over there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be safe!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-4653733039048712919?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/4653733039048712919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=4653733039048712919&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4653733039048712919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/4653733039048712919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/packing-punch-in-both-hemispheres.html' title='Packing a punch: in both hemispheres'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TJLiV-CYkuI/AAAAAAAAEUc/EgiTh17Q6Nc/s72-c/1_surf-420x0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-105753949483859121</id><published>2010-09-05T15:03:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T15:18:58.886+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Small fast and hollow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAXo14gWI/AAAAAAAAERw/mTATja9-P_E/s1600/DSC04398.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAXo14gWI/AAAAAAAAERw/mTATja9-P_E/s400/DSC04398.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAccpKrcI/AAAAAAAAER4/WYJMLvjRgys/s1600/DSC04410.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAccpKrcI/AAAAAAAAER4/WYJMLvjRgys/s400/DSC04410.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAgyfXLcI/AAAAAAAAESA/yCMpaUoOvmc/s1600/DSC04414.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAgyfXLcI/AAAAAAAAESA/yCMpaUoOvmc/s400/DSC04414.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAlLRPedI/AAAAAAAAESI/wDw8ULAJSec/s1600/DSC04414a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="508" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAlLRPedI/AAAAAAAAESI/wDw8ULAJSec/s640/DSC04414a.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAq14P8sI/AAAAAAAAESQ/KI_1xOeA_4s/s1600/DSC04416.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAq14P8sI/AAAAAAAAESQ/KI_1xOeA_4s/s400/DSC04416.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINESEFZWPI/AAAAAAAAESg/QfoE6N75eKU/s1600/DSC04405a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINESEFZWPI/AAAAAAAAESg/QfoE6N75eKU/s400/DSC04405a.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINEWIsXbQI/AAAAAAAAESo/2in6oeQBdIU/s1600/DSC04422.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="322" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINEWIsXbQI/AAAAAAAAESo/2in6oeQBdIU/s400/DSC04422.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Pointies was dead flat and had a clubbies carnival about to start. Jinshan number 2 had big fatties out the back pushing onto a bank about 1 foot deep. Dave cracked a stack of fast little barrels and ate a lot of sand! Great fun, a little 1 1/2 hour window before it all filled up again...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-105753949483859121?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/105753949483859121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=105753949483859121&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/105753949483859121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/105753949483859121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html' title='Small fast and hollow'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TINAXo14gWI/AAAAAAAAERw/mTATja9-P_E/s72-c/DSC04398.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-1600354051810990980</id><published>2010-09-05T08:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T08:21:08.173+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Take a number</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TILiG2QA4cI/AAAAAAAAERo/UwwOG5VGkZY/s1600/ap_F23_20100905072414144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TILiG2QA4cI/AAAAAAAAERo/UwwOG5VGkZY/s400/ap_F23_20100905072414144.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Not bad out east, but the usual crowd...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-1600354051810990980?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/1600354051810990980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=1600354051810990980&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1600354051810990980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/1600354051810990980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/take-number.html' title='Take a number'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TILiG2QA4cI/AAAAAAAAERo/UwwOG5VGkZY/s72-c/ap_F23_20100905072414144.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-9141409987425745339</id><published>2010-09-04T09:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-04T09:16:41.229+08:00</updated><title type='text'>OK</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TIGdt7I1KpI/AAAAAAAAERY/dBfWZ8TyZH4/s1600/ap_F23_20100904122610427.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TIGdt7I1KpI/AAAAAAAAERY/dBfWZ8TyZH4/s400/ap_F23_20100904122610427.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TIGdyAz6SDI/AAAAAAAAERg/Z0G7XpfvMzs/s1600/ap_F23_20100904063420964.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TIGdyAz6SDI/AAAAAAAAERg/Z0G7XpfvMzs/s400/ap_F23_20100904063420964.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Baishawan (top) and Wushi (below)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-9141409987425745339?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/9141409987425745339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=9141409987425745339&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/9141409987425745339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/9141409987425745339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/ok.html' title='OK'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TIGdt7I1KpI/AAAAAAAAERY/dBfWZ8TyZH4/s72-c/ap_F23_20100904122610427.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-6615121286530848025</id><published>2010-09-02T08:56:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T08:56:56.028+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Messy Wushi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH72KgKWPMI/AAAAAAAAERQ/L0KU35zEPuE/s1600/ap_F23_20100902071009162.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH72KgKWPMI/AAAAAAAAERQ/L0KU35zEPuE/s400/ap_F23_20100902071009162.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Messy out east &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(photo: surfella)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-6615121286530848025?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/6615121286530848025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=6615121286530848025&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6615121286530848025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/6615121286530848025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/messy-wushi.html' title='Messy Wushi'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH72KgKWPMI/AAAAAAAAERQ/L0KU35zEPuE/s72-c/ap_F23_20100902071009162.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-8416754952597909219</id><published>2010-09-01T14:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T14:13:21.824+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Inconvenient Truth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH3uf9BAKmI/AAAAAAAAERA/M9IFPO3AZTg/s1600/now.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH3uf9BAKmI/AAAAAAAAERA/M9IFPO3AZTg/s400/now.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This is right now.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH3un1iKnpI/AAAAAAAAERI/C_L50y9iYFU/s1600/tomorrow.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH3un1iKnpI/AAAAAAAAERI/C_L50y9iYFU/s400/tomorrow.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;and this is tomorrow same time. Looks like we're going to miss this swell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday early has a smallish swell line hovering off the northwest coast, but time will tell.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-8416754952597909219?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/8416754952597909219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=8416754952597909219&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8416754952597909219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/8416754952597909219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/09/inconvenient-truth.html' title='Inconvenient Truth'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/TH3uf9BAKmI/AAAAAAAAERA/M9IFPO3AZTg/s72-c/now.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-3459340176357224990</id><published>2010-08-28T10:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-28T10:18:13.927+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baishawan this morning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/THhxi5Bog8I/AAAAAAAAEPw/w2wfgYiKHU4/s1600/ap_F23_20100828082422768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/THhxi5Bog8I/AAAAAAAAEPw/w2wfgYiKHU4/s400/ap_F23_20100828082422768.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pointyhats rule!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-3459340176357224990?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/3459340176357224990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=3459340176357224990&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3459340176357224990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/3459340176357224990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/08/baishawan-this-morning.html' title='Baishawan this morning'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8piPZCUDMA/THhxi5Bog8I/AAAAAAAAEPw/w2wfgYiKHU4/s72-c/ap_F23_20100828082422768.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12474778.post-2917332742508378501</id><published>2010-08-27T06:23:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T06:24:33.259+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are you kidding?!</title><content type='html'>Occasionally I use the excuse here in Taiwan that I'm not going because of small sloppy surf. Check&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/14437082"&gt; this amazing&lt;/a&gt; air in, ah, small sloppy surf!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12474778-2917332742508378501?l=pointyhat.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/feeds/2917332742508378501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12474778&amp;postID=2917332742508378501&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2917332742508378501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12474778/posts/default/2917332742508378501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pointyhat.blogspot.com/2010/08/are-you-kidding.html' title='Are you kidding?!'/><author><name>david</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
