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HIT AND RUN
Gilmore, Fitzgibbons, Enever strike and score epic P-Pass
My New Year's resolution was pretty stock-standard. In order to save my liver, the celebrations had to settle down a little. (Notice, I didn't say stop!) I decided that I had to commit to a surf trip as soon as the New Year started. So when Swilly called me up with a potential six-foot swell hitting P-Pass in Micronesia, I was in.
When I began to organize our little crew I was actually on my way to the Falls Festival in Victoria to get all sweaty in the mosh pit during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performance on New Year's Eve. So I was pretty rushed and excited about everything in general. Last year I was a tagalong on a boys trip, which was awesome, but this time it was all about bikinis, hats, summery dresses and gossip...oh, and pretty barrels.
I called Sally Fitzgibbons, who was staring at a flat ocean on the South Coast of Sydney, and she was easily in. And then Laura Enever was convinced it would be easy enough to talk her team manager into letting her miss the first Pro Junior of the season -- at two-foot, cold, Bells Beach. Piece of cake. And that was us.
I knew these girls were going to be the best because they're such cool humans and more importantly I knew they were going to push each other and myself as well. (I'm pretty sure they ended up schooling me -- and half the guys in the lineup did too, especially Kolohe Andino.)??
We flew straight into pumping waves, got to surf with some friends who were already there, got sunburnt as f*ck, drank fresh coconuts, watched each other get shacked, and laughed at each other when going over the falls. Three days later we packed our bikinis and flew home, just in time for Laura to dominate at Narrabeen and win the ASP World Junior title.
Icing on the cake? Nah, more like ice on her sunburned butt. Afterwards, we all decide that we're never going on a trip again that's booked more than a week in advance.
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January 26, 2010
