Willy and I flew to the land down under in May of 2007 in search of waves, women, and wide open spaces ... and found them all. We also did some solid research and development for new demarco models.

The journey began when Joe Riska picked us up in Sydney and took us to his North Narrabeen beach house. We enjoyed a few days full of clean, overhead surf and meat pies. We also had some fantastic nights out on the town in Sydney and Manly Beach. Nice! Riska has an old station wagon, so we packed it full to the brim and headed for Byron Bay - about 1000k north. We took the scenic route up the coast and Seal Rocks was our first stop. The surf seemed small at a glance from the 100 foot sand dunes, but as we got closer we noticed the potential that was right in front of us. Clean, peeling waves with no one around. Stoked! It was truly an amazing session - not big, just perfect fun sized waves with dolphins as our only competition. We camped right there hoping for more of the same the next day. Through the night however, the skies and ocean had changed. We were up and on it at dawn, but the waves were sloppy and closing out. Willy managed a few hairy inside tubes before we packed up and got back on the road. We shot up through the countryside in a flurry of ipod shuffling, and got to Byron by nightfall. Scooners all around! We cruised in Byron for a few days scoring epic waves at Tallows, Lennox Head, and Ballina. Lennox was the stand out spot serving up peeling rights with mellow crowds. After a surf we would head back to our camp at The Pass, where we had a cooler and stove top prepped and ready. We would feast and then rally to the Beach Hotel for scooners and Bundaberg. The night life in Byron was all time and the surf was pretty good too, it is a truly amazing place. We stayed in Byron as long as we could before heading north to the famed Goldy in hopes of scoring Snappers or Burliegh Heads. We arrived on gold coast and were surprised at the resemblance the place had to Daytona Beach, but with perfect point setups. Unfortunately we did not have the same luck that we have had before, their were barely any waves at all. It was really small but we had a paddle out anyway and it fun none the less. We reached the peak of the trip and were excited to do it all over again. The trip south however had to a bit faster so we skipped Byron and headed strait into the bush in search of remote camping and empty waves. The search provided many awesome sights including kangaroos, but no waves or camping grounds. We ended up in a tiny bogan town called Coofs Harbor, where the local backpackers was also the town watering hole. A huge rugby game was on and we right in the mix cheering for blue(NSW) all the way. The surf there was small as well, so we were back on the road the next morning heading back down to Seal Rocks the most south facing point. We pulled up and were stoked to find a juicy south swell and only a few blokes out. We surfed for four hours before red eyeing it back to North Narrabeen. The road trip was over, but we cruised Sydney and Manly for a few more days and found a little more surf. We had a great trip with fun waves, good vibes, and awesome boards. We gained good feedback for the quad model because of the variety of waves and longer point waves we surfed.