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Fri, 14 Jan 2005

Camping down the Coast (Part Two) - 09:39
The highlight of the next day was seeing lots of dolphins playing and surfing the waves. Travis, Rachel, Leiliane and myself decided to take a walk through the quite pleasant National Park towards the surf beach and lagoon. When walking with Rachel I always try to create a loop, so we never have to walk on the same track home. So, we started walking along the beach, playing in the waves. It was quite an isolated beach with no surfers, no swimmers and quite rough sea, the waves were dumping in on a quite steep beach. Then we saw the dolphins, Leiliane was very excited and she ran and ran trying to keep up with their progress along the beach. We left the beach on went back onto the shores of Wallogoot lake, then back to our campground, Vania and Ben had came back from town and the decision was made to have lunch and then head off to the surf beach in Merimbula
The surf was fun, but cold. Rachel managed to get smashed by every wave. Travis was giving lessons and body boarding, he was quite good. It was later revealed that he has spent quite a bit of time at the beach is his home town of Adelaide. We left the beach in late afternoon and no coffee had been consumed all day, so we stopped at the pizza place in town and had a few cups.
The highlight of the night was a huge rainstorm, I feared the worst after that rain and hail on the way down. Rachel and I did get some minor waterworks in the tent, but nothing major.

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Health and Fitness Progress - 09:25
OK, I've decided to make a concerted effort to get back to full health and fitness after the debacle of the damn hay fever season which seemed to last forever this season (most of Oct, Nov and Dec) I am really quite pissed as I was in really good form in early October only to be struggling and feeling quite flat.
On big thing is to get back to my race weight, around 72-74kg. I'm, on my way now just less that 80 after a high of 84. I told Crash a few weeks back I was all biked up, no need for any more bikes. Well, that nice steel Scaping hanging in Bike Culture, well that sorta looks about my size - doesn't it? I suppose I better get lots of steel bikes before they stop making them and the nice people in the shop keep on marking the price down. I wonder if it is exactly the same size as my Scapin?
Anyhow, > 80 target 74

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