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1998 in Review, so far...

This year has kicked off to a great begining with the biggest turn out to our annual "Get 'em wet and wild" Learn to Surf Camp in cool Torquay, the adopted home of surfing. With 85 people on the camp it was simply awesome! Everyone had a fantastic time, be it on the bus from Geelong to Torquay, out in the surf or in the pub getting blind to help those early morning surfing lessons. 

A few BBQ's and pub crawls later Easter pops it's ugly head up, and we're off to the Offshore Festival and Ripcurl Pro at Bells Beach! 42 people crammed themselves into our tent area, watched bands, surfing and partied 'till they dropped. 

Finally the T-Shirts were delivered at our T-Shirt BBQ & Pub Crawl. We gave away about 40 t-shirts to members and then wandered the streets of Melbourne, looking for a pub to drain. 6 pubs let us in the doors, where we drank and ate to our heart's content. Off to the Metro for the stayers to finish off a cool and pretty much a great pub crawl... well at least as far as I can remember anyway. 
-For those of you without your T-Shirts... well stiff shit. Nah only kidding... you can pick them up from the Bldg 8 Caf' thursdays 12:30-1:30pm, or E-Mail us and we'll arrange it somewhere. 

Sandy Point: 
For the last trip of first semester, the awesome Surfriders went down to Sandy Point (just north of Wilson's Prom) with RMIT's own Windwankers... sorry, Windsurfers. A bloody fantastic weekend with awesome surf and a little wind (yeah the windsurfers need all the help they can get.) Saturday morning, Mick and Steve lead the charge out with Agi, Peter, Matt & Peta in tow leaving the rest to fend for themselves. Slick 1-1.5m clean waves all day were the go. Meanwhile all hell was breaking loose over at the inlet with the Windsurfers going fishing for their outboard after it was flung from the back of the ducky. Luckly, Wally had a firm grip on it and the motor didn't go too far, but that killed the rest of the day of skirfng. To top it off, everyone down there was trapped on the beach until low tide came around again because the water trapped their cars on the beach! Night time kicked off with Tequila shots all 'round. Flying pancakes and swinging Windsurfers ended the evening of loonacy. 
Sunday's surf wasn't so crash-hot, but everyone managed to get wet for a few hours. 1-1.5m swell, although a bit messy, still gave us all a few good rides. 

Hope this has wetted your already boiling fever about this year's Surfriders. If you want to join, fill out the Online Membership Form and we'll get back to you as soon as you within a day or too. 

See ya soon! 

Steve Tanti 
President - RMIT Surfriders Club 
03-9561-8736