Gday chowbaggers . 63 days of lockdown has been put in the bank . Not much has changed but little things have happened . The beaches reopened on Wednesday and shit did the water users arrive . Ole mate Marcus floats by consistently but he won’t come in because he knows Emma is working from home .He has found a new victim , which makes me laugh . There’s talk that school may possibly stay online until at least the start of 2021 … fuck , that’s frightening . We know of a few people that have had covid 19 and have now recovered ; it seems as if the virus was here earlier than 1st thought . The beers are still flowing ,but I’m trying to hold back Monday to Thursday . 2 weeks in a row I’ve ticked that box . The parks are pumping , the paths too . Everyone is exercising out doors . It’s show time for the body beautiful. The weather continues to warm ,the days get longer and the sunsets well they always deliver .
The beaches : They were to open tomorrow morning but it was brought forward to Wednesday just gone . Water users , walkers , runners and joggers only was the edict . My pessimism had declared that Wednesday would surely be a shitty day with no surf . Wrong on that count . A beautiful warm morning with nice little waves awaited . I didn’t rush , I knew everyone else would do that . Nah fuck it , I’m having breakfast , my coffee ,a rest stop and then I’ll check it out . Hay , I know it’s gonna be busy but it never gets outta control down here …and then I walked down and saw for myself …
Crazy busy . Each morning has been bedlam . What’s been a shock is the quality of surfers out here ; they’re young and bloody good . I haven’t seen most of these guys . Why have they shown up now and not in the past ? College kids ,they’re all back at home . They’ve cut their teeth on these beaches and not only that their here early each morning .Yeah that’s it ,they’re less likely to be hung over when they can’t drink legally until 21 . Of course I know they’ll be up to stuff ,but these young guys are out there by 7-730 and ripping it . This 50 year old has found things tough . Still , it’s a tough life when you can’t work and live on the beach in California.
“ Hey Troy , come out here ! “ Who the fucks that . Who else dickhead …none other than Marcus . He’s parked in the middle of the road. Our front door is now open as we no longer have to worry about him walking in from across the road , but it doesn’t stop him from driving by and yelling out to me every 2nd day . “What’s up Marcus ? “ I enquire . “ I want to introduce to my mate , Damien .” , replies Marcus . “ How ya goin Damien “ ..” Gday mate “ he replies ….Knock me down with a feather , ole mate has found himself a new Aussie to latch onto. It turns out that Damian ,a 20 something year old bloke has just relocated from Sydney and unfortunately for him he’s landed right across the road from Ole Mate himself . To top it off he landed on March 10 , just days later the whole country has been paralysed and locked down . He now has to work from home and has the old boy across the road just waiting with joy to knock on his door . He got his phone number too ….poor fucka has fallen for the trap too . I grab Damiens phone number before they go , all the while with a smile on my face . Strap yourself in Damien , cause ole mates gonna drive you nuts ….and he has . Damien rang me last week . He tells me that Ole Mate rings him at least 3 times a day and knocks on his door regularly . He told Marcus that not his girl friend , his mum or his boss has ever needed to contact him so regularly everyday . I laughed , oh yeah I laughed . Sorry Damien but Ole mate has found a new victim ….. another Aussie . For now hound dogs , cheers to groundhog week number 10 … it’s starts tomorrow…….and it’ll be our little mans 10 th birthday …Happy birthday Leroy
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