A day in the life of a Fill2Pure Alkalizing Sport Bottle...

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Morning Sunshine...

Such an amazing morning in so many ways...

Peace

Bottled Water back story...

Wow! The answer is so simple...  ALKAWAY

These guys have been ultra filtering and alkalizing Australian tap water for years...

And the best part is not only do you drink great tasting water that's super healthy but you're not adding to the environmental crisis of land fill and ocean gyres...

Check out the BPA Free and Stainless Steel portable and reuseable bottles while you are there, which are such awesome value...

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Peace

What is time?

An emergent concept,,, a measuring system to sequence events to compare duration and intervals between them and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects.

Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars.

Time, Einstein's unfinished revolution...

Watching this time lapse video makes time seem a bit insignificant...

Peace

Tsunami from the bridge of Japanese Coast Guard 5kms out...

Check the peak on left of camera at the start...

You don't need to speak Japanese to appreciate how much they were shitting themselves...

Why do "we" have nuclear reactors, especially on the coast in a country that experiences quakes regularly and consequent tsunamis???

When the Sun generates enough energy for an entire universe....

Obviously it is unsustainable to continue building suck risky developments in the name of progress...

Peace and NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

Bomb more hills and less people...

Flicking through the net last night I stumbled upon this piece of gold. It reminded me of hanging out out with Paul Patto in Western Australia on flat days. Grabbing a car load of the boys and taking turns hammering down empty streets up behind Dunsborough on Sector Nine's. The best fun you can have outside of sliding down some water.

If you've done it before you'll appreciate just how good this guy is, if you haven't done it before don't try this at home...... ENJOY!

Jaws on the menu...

Tonic Immobility - 

Funny,,, that's how I feel after a big day of Fire Training and Ocean Survival, topped off with a sneaky late surf with Dan Ross... 

Which actually turned out to be a 15min circuit (punish) due to lack of waves,,, of soft dune running, crunches, swimming, running, more crunches, paddle, surf continuously...

Peace of proverbial for the first 10mins, last 5mins the wheels feel of this little cart ;-)

Peace

EQUALIZE...

Dan Ross & Mark Matthews training with Nam Baldwin from www.equalize.com.au on the lay days during the recent QUIKSILVER PRO 2011.

DAN ROSS joins Patagonia...

AUSTRALIAN SURFER DAN ROSS JOINS PATAGONIA’S AMBASSADOR TEAM

VENTURA, Calif. (March 7, 201 1) — Patagonia Inc., the enviro-minded apparel company, is
pleased to announce that Australian surfer Dan Ross has formally joined the Patagonia
team. After working together informally for the past two years, Ross and Patagonia have
forged a relationship with shared environmental ethos and perspectives.

“We began working with Dan a few years ago when he began by his own choice wearing our
products and providing us with feedback and design insight,” notes Jason McCaffrey,
Patagonia’s surf director, “Over time we created a sustainable relationship that works well
for everyone. His lifestyle, family history and environmental ethics fit perfectly with
Patagonia. We really admire him for his humble and holistic approach to life on and off the
tour and we know that he’ll provide us with great product feedback while getting the word out
to younger surfers that we’ve got to take care of the ocean and the planet.”

Ross was born and bred in coastal northern NSW and has a long surfing history that’s aligns
perfectly with Patagonia’s heritage. Ross’ step-father surfing legend, Baddy Treloar (star of
the iconic movie, Morning of the Earth), spent countless hours surfing with Dan on the
perfect waves of Angourie point. In addition to growing up in the surf world, Dan’s natural
affinity for the environment resonates perfectly with Patagonia’s goal to create the best
products while causing the least amount of harm. The company respects Dan’s desire to
continually highlight his care for nature and his focus on giving back.

“Believe it or not Dan asked for his incentive to be paid in the form of new solar panels and a
grey water system for his house in Australia,” says McCaffrey. “I’m really excited about
joining the Patagonia team and to be apart of such an amazing company that aligns with my
beliefs so naturally, and I look forward to working together on enviro minded initiatives that
will inspire the surf community and help raise awareness”, says Dan Ross.

Patagonia looks forward to working with Dan in incorporating both his environmental
sensibilities and feedback from competitive surfing into the company’s surf product
developments, Ross joins Patagonia’s team of surfing ambassadors that includes Gerry
Lopez, the Malloys, Wayne Lynch, Kohl Christensen and more.

FRESH MULLET...

This iconic www.johnwitzig.com.au photograph and inspired namesake for this website, seems to mean more now, after all the Natural and Man-made Disaster, than ever!

Nice one John, back to basics is timeless...

Peace

Just how much radiation can we handle...

From www.treehugger.com

How Much Radiation Exposure Do You Normally Get Every Year?

If you've even been half paying attention to the news this morning on the situation of the nuclear reactors damaged by the Japanese earthquake it'd be hard to miss all the talk about exposure to radiation--at the plant and in the vicinity, a US navy vessel moving away after detecting higher than normal radiation levels, people in Finland stocking up on iodine tablets fearing a spreading radiation cloud, talk of a cloud spreading across the Pacific to reach the United States.

Like many people I wasn't up on what normal levels of radiation exposure are, but some quick digging gave some very illuminating answers. So, here's what you're exposed to on an annual basis:

You Receive ~620 Millirem Per Year

According to stats from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission average yearly exposure is roughly 620 millirem--half of which comes from natural sources (cosmic radiation, from the soil, radon, etc) and half comes from manmade sources. Note that geography can play a big part in that. In Colorado, for example, natural radiation exposure can be 1000 mrem per year due to higher altitude.

Some perspective: NRC limits "occupational radiation exposure to adults working with radioactive material to 5,000 mrem per year" and anything below 10,000 mrem is considered a low dose of radiation. In the Chernobyl disaster the 134 people working in the plant to put out the fire received 80,000-1,600,000 mrem--28 of them died within three months of exposure.

More? Listing of Common Radiation Exposures & EPA: Sources of Radiation Exposure

New York Times has a good rundown of the danger posed by various radioactive isotopes that may or may not have been released, or may yet be released.

Image: NRC

Back to what's going on in Japan: LA Times reports that the aircraft carrier that moved in response to detecting elevated radiation levels experienced exposure equal to what a person might receive in one month from natural sources, so perhaps 26 mrem, and that the contamination was "easily removed with soap and water."

Yesterday, TreeHugger reported that exposure in Japan was equal to about one year of natural radiation (Christine explained that this was about 35-40 chest x-rays)--so perhaps 310 mrem.

UPDATE: Newer reports of radiation levels at the front gate of the Fukushima power plant place them significantly higher than earlier information--at that location radiation equivalent to three years of normal exposure in one hour have been detected.

UPDATE 2: BBC News reports that "radiation dosages of up to 400 millisieverts per hour were recorded at the site" and notes "A single dose of 1,000 millisieverts causes temporary radiation sickness such as nausea and vomiting."

On differing units used in measuring radiation

Though the USNRC uses millirems and variants in discussing radiation exposure, the current internationally preferred unit is the sievert and its subdivisions of millisievert and microsievert. For conversion: 1 millisievert = 100 mrem.

More on Nuclear Power:
Nuclear Threat Worsens as Japan Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Damage Continues
Nuclear Blast From The Past: Tectonics of Science, Politics, War & Climate Change

Holy Fukushima... Nuclear Power Plant FAQ's

Its difficult to keep up with the rate at which this disaster is unfolding...

We all know that exposure to nuclear radiation is bad and that's why we have to wear those lead apron if we get an X-Ray...

We all know that Chernobyl was bad and should never have happened, again...

Our friends at www.treehugger.com have the basic FAQ's and supporting documents CLICK HERE

Read up and get Nuclear smart...

The North Pacific Tropical Gyre...

Almost sounds idyllic, but its not...

I've been looking into the damage caused and being caused by the recent Japanese Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown (stay tuned for more info coming v soon) and found this...

Over 7 million tons of plastic

Spanning an area twice the size of Texas

Destroying our oceans

Harming our food chains

Thinks again about buy plastic bottled water...

Check out ALKAWAY's Stainless Filtration and Alkalizing reusable bottle and do your bit to become the solution...

Nihon Gambate!

In this tradgic time, the above Signatures trailer is Japan at its very best!

Nihon Gambate! (Ne- hon Gam-ba-teh) Translates to... Try your best Japan!

Earthquake, Tsunami and now Nuclear Fallout are all bad enough by themselves...

I had the fortune of living in Japan in 1997 - 1998 when the Winter Olympics where on and Hokkaido had some 27 meters of pow, scoring some super deep sessions well before the droves of Australian snow hounds had sniffed out the goods...

I also had the pleasure of immersing myself deep into their fascinating and rich culture and loved exploring their unique and mysterious ways...

Japanese have such a beautiful ability battle through and to communicate their ideas... In challenging or trying times they would say "Gambate", which literally mean "face the challenge" and / or "try your best" and / or "chin up"...

I think any of these are fitting under the terrifying circumstances...

Natural Disaster and Nuclear Power Plants DON"T mix!

How many Chernobyl's will it take to learn???

Nihon Gambate!

Here's a picture of the Tsunami's wave reach below

And here's an image of the projected Nuclear Fallout over the next week or so...

Holy Fukushima! It doesn't make sense, does it?

Heat of the event...

This will easily go down as one of the best heats, ever!

You've got to excuse De Souza for the double fist pump claiming victory...

But, hats off to Mr Burrows, undoubtedly the best player on field for the QUIK PRO 2011.

Bring on the Bell!!

Noosa 11... Festival of Surfing...

The Noosa Festival of Surfing starts this Saturday the 12th of March 2011 and to get the ball rolling The WITZIG Trilogy of iconic surf movies will feature at the opening BREAKFREE SOUTH PACIFIC RESORT CORPORATE CU DINNER from 6pm - 10pm.

Paul Witzig, Bob McTavish, Wayne Lynch and Reno Abellira will be attending the dinner.

You can purchase discounted tickets at http://noosafestivalofsurfing.com/

For a sneak peak, check out the trailers below...

HOT GENERATION

EVOLUTION

SEA OF JOY

Peace Out...

An Apple a day...

 

 There's so much truth to the old adage, "An Apple a day keeps a doctor away".  I just wish people really understood why...

 

Apples protect and heal every body system, every organ and function - all 10,000 trillion of your body's cells love them!

 

Apples contain a long list of phyto (plant) nutrients that function as protector/inhibitors (anti-oxidants) and support our health this way.  The pectin's in apples, also help to clear out toxic residue that may be in the body as a result of medications.  

 

Apples come in many different varieties, and they all offer something a little different. 

 

My pick is to eat a variety of ORGANIC apples... just don't let a day go by without eating at least one!

KS wins QUIK PRO yet again...

Finals Day Highlights...

Kelly Slater wins his 46th event and 3rd QUIK PRO by convincingly defeating Taj Burrow in woeful waves for a final...

Taj was easily the outstanding surfer of the event, posting 9's in every heat, but in today's final was unable to better a 3...

Congratulations Mr Slater, well surfed...

Force of Nature

David Suzuki's Force of Nature is premiering in Queensland at 6.30pm on the 21st March 2011 at the Paradise Showroom // The Arts Centre Gold Coast 135 Bundall Rd Surfers Paradise QLD

Tickets available on-line at http://lifechangingdocos.com/

See you there!

Peace

Best Barrels...

Dan Ross may well have come off second best in his Round 3 Heat with Brazilian Adriano de Souza, but he scored one of the "BEST BARRELS" of the competition for his efforts according to the TELSTRA TIME TUNNEL...

And... Congratulations to Carissa Moore for taking out the 2011 Roxy Pro

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It's great to see women's surfing progressing across the board this year... 

Super nice barrel Tyler Wright, bummer about the priority drop in, thems the breaks ;-(

This moment...

Dan Ross at the QUIKSILVER PRO...

After a day that started slow and fat and then was called off after the completion of Round 2 in ordinary condition, a 2 Heat Expression Session turned out to have some of the best behind the rock pits of the competition window todate...

Anyway, Day 10 is set to be pumping with the swell swinging more east and the wave period increasing slightly...

The sand bank really seems to like the lower tide, so there should be some nice throaty runners for Round 3...

Peace

Quiksilver PRO back on...

Day 1 saw some awesome surfing in at times testing conditions, as seen above, but today the girls blew up with some super tight heats...

The wind blew with the odd episodes of horizontal rain, so here's hopin' that the swell has finally accepted the invite to join the party...

And the all important sand looks amazing at low tide with some ridiculous barrel section appearing, so fingers crossed that it all comes together for the final few days of the comp...

Stay tuned for some super pits to come over the next few days...

Bring back KIRRA for round 3 :-)

Peace Pipes

Simple Mind...

...Simply Live... Simply Trip...

...Simply Mind Trip...

Sorry to bother, but I like Radiohead.

Radiohead have a new album out. Here's Thom doing what he does best.

Ladies and Gentleman introducing....

A mate is having an exhibition at Coolangatta, check out the trailer.



GET OFF MY CLOUD by Peter Crawford and Steve Gorrow from Insight Clothing on Vimeo.

The Whitest Boy Alive...

Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage Music Video by Geoff McFetridge from geoff mcfetridge on Vimeo.

Found this piece of Black & White Gold whilst checkin' out some more of Geoff's work...

Love it!

The Flying Fish Fish...

A Geoff McFetridge work form Champion Graphics

One of the original collaborative works from when he first started work on developing the "Ocean Initiatives" and surf branding with Patagonia...

Stay tuned for more of Geoff's art...