Ekka

Working in a state-wide company, I'd been a little peeved when people in Rockhampton, or Mackay, or Cairns had told me that they had a day off for their town's agricultural show. I was rather less peeved when I discovered what all the advertising around Brisbane for the "Ekka" was - Brisbane's agricultural show, complete with it's own regional public holiday :) So this week, everyone (in Brissy) had Wednesday off work - hooray!

We didn't go to the Ekka, we instead spent the day on the Gold Coast, having a surf and cruising around getting familiar with some of the towns either side of Currumbin. The surf was great, which was a relief after the poor conditions last time we were there, but my board officially sucks. Paddling the damn thing anywhere is quite literally a drag, which makes catching anything even more difficult. Nat was catching everything he paddled for on his longboard, so after a while we swapped - and we both caught the next waves that came through. The time has come to start shopping around for a longboard for me :)

We bought a polarising filter for the camera, and Skye put it to good use at Currumbin taking photos of us surfing, and then some great sunset shots from Kirra hill. Once they're sorted through, I'll post them on fatcat. In the meantime, there are a few shots from a couple of weekends ago surfing at Moffat's Beach, Caloundra.

(I've also started uploading and organising all the photos from our backpacking trip on fatcat - should all be done in a few more days)

The other big news of the week is that after an intense couple of weeks studying for the CCNP switching exam, I passed it. In fact, I got a really good score, which I found surprising as I thought it went really badly and was resigned to failing. Altogether a fairly unpleasant experience, but one that I'm going to have to repeat another 3 times to get the CCNP.