As I was a skateboarder for so many years surfing was always a sport that
interested me, unfortunately I never had a real opportunity to try it out other
than renting a body board for an hour when I was 14 years old.
That all changed when I went to my friends 18th birthday party in Gloucester
back in late August 2000, I found out that two of my mates, Mart and Rob were
going to Cornwall for a week surfing and they asked if I would like to come, it
didn't take me much time to decide (even in my drunken state). We left a
few days later.
When we got there we stopped at a camp site in Polzeath, about 12 miles from
Newquay. We rented boards from here and away we went. We purchased a
disposable camera to record our surfing exploits but couldn't find a waterproof
one so we only used it for the first 20 minutes of the trip then threw it on the
beach to be used at night to record our antics.
The trip consisted of surfing and eating all day (I can heartily recommend
the steak and stilton pasties from the pasty shop in Newquay) and drinking most
of the night.
Below are the photographs of the trip, unfortunately the camera was not very
good and some of the pictures are quite poor.