With the Australian Open of Surfing on in Manly I decided to drop by and have a look at it yesterday as I was in the neighbourhood. The wind was onshore and the surf was crap. But the couple of heats I watched of the young fellas blew me away - it was Air this Air that etc Stupid!!

Anyway the main reason I went down was to check out the new skate bowl.....I had seen them making it a few weeks prior and it looked impressive. Yesterday there was no action on the Bowl so it was all shut off and the shots I took of it did not do it justice. Instead I have stolen a few from other sites for you to see it. I am sure Chrispy would love to let rip in it. I must say that I got blood flow just looking at it. Its amazing. Big Tony Hawk hits it later in the week apparently.

One other thing - having had a little walk around the retail areas there yesterday I can assure you that the Reef girls look just as good in real life as they do in the mags.