Well if anyone ever says it never 'really blows' in QLD tell em their dreaming! Just head Nth in Winter!

Its going off the scale here.. there are links to photos from Billy Craig on the Freerace Qld site, so head over the check em out, the photos don't tell the story properly though.....its super windy...and out the back extremely choppy, 4.7m and freewave board conditions!

Slalom started today with Team Qld doing well through Sean, Luke and Vando all up in the top results for the day, it was a big downwider course at the smooth end of the island and they were through the heats in 3-4 minutes...flying! Dave Sandos sailed well also, saw a great heat which he one courtesy of a lovely fast passing gybe, Ben is sailing well, not sure if WA are claiming him or Qld? Local NQ Kel, is physco scary with his insane off the wind runs, he will be up there in the FR results for sure.

Will is pulling off crazy flat water forwards in the freestyle

A late minute call to run a Freerace today, with just enough time before the boat....insane conditions, never seen so many stacks in a FR yet!, everybody was on edge, overpowered and in agony at the end of the HR! And checking the BOM reports it was 27-33 around the time we were sailing ....arrhhhhh! Macro, decided to give himself a carbon fibre nose job bit nasty but he's tough...I decided to rearrange my thigh yesterday with a bruise and lump the size of a grapefruit!....yep found a reef can now testify carbon booms are bomb proof!

I can confirm the Tassie crew are all physco's after today's FR doing insane speed runs over lets say...not so deep bits of water...Mad! they will feature in FR 1 no doubt, those guys are super quick and seem to be right at home in the strong winds.

Surprise of the event so far has been meeting multiple world champion, and all round windsurfing legend Jessica Crisp, lovely lady and so friendly to all, and still deadly fast on the water, on 'borrowed' kit she has been wiping the floor against most guys, and makes it look so easy.. GUN!

Hope that fills you in a bit, photo's head over the FR Qld FB page....will see what we can do keep you updated.. it's a hectic schedule, early starts, bumpy boat rides, sailing all day, bumpy boat rides, drinks , dinner, crash, up early to do it all again...etc etc, forecast is fresh to frightening tomorrow...Some of us have already clocked up many hours of sailing, possibly hundreds of Km's in full on windy conditions already , and we still have the week to go.., it's a tough gig, but we will soldier on....