The alarm rang at 8am, and we were up around 8.30, 10 minutes later we were eating breakfast, Nearly ready for our 9am Surf lesson! James & Lily, our roommates, are also coming, so this should be fun! 9am, Shane is running late, school is starting again today and he took his kids. By 9.30am we were all practising how to get up on the garage floor. Shane gave me a smaller board because he found that I was "doing good during Australian Day!". Smaller = harder. We left the hostel under the rain again. It is fine, like that we don't have to worry about getting sunburned!
It took me 3 goes to get up and going ! After that I was on a roll! It took D. a bit more time. After a little while we were practising on our own and Shane went surfing farther with James (experienced surfer). The current was pretty strong and we had to keep swimming back to the right area on the beach/water. At some point I held the board badly with the cord and twisted my left fingers badly... + after that I landed badly on the same hand towards the end... This was the sigh to stop. D. also injured himself and bled in a few places (hear, feet and burned his skin on his belly with the frictions against the board and his top).
no photos as we were all surfing + crappy weather
We went back to the hostel around 12.30, exhausted, drenched. We had no energy left to do anything especially cooking! We had showers and ate out in a café at the end of the street (too tired to go farther!) D. had a burger and I had a lovely salad with grilled veg and halloumi. I also had a dessert in the café at our hostel: a brownie DELICIOUS! D. bought some Rocky Road + Cherry. After that we spent some time reading in bed.
D. went for a walk all the way to the end of the rock pier at Turner Beach, I was too exhausted so I stayed in. In the evening we joined James & Lily downsairs in the Hostel café watching tennis. We ate leftovers for dinner around 9pm, packed our bags for tomorrow, and finally wen to bed with a book around 10.30pm
Walked around 1 km today (D. maybe more) + surfing!
Slept in a family room, in Yamba YHA
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