Only Devon Knows.

SURF ACTION: PHONE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/2010-finalists/westcountry/surf-action

Next delivery

A spate of recent purchases has left me excited, frustrated, poor and knackered with sleepless nights.
Arriving slowly one by one these two are the next set of deliveries and I simply cannot wait. It will be my second SPL and hopefully my last. Unless I win the lottery and then Ill have one for everything!!

Guess Who?

Still in Hawaii, this is a shot I retrieved from a roll of film.
Shoved my Canon A1 into my housing and it kind of worked.
I did like this one though

The Future

As one star fades I'd like to think many more are shining bright. In light of Andy Irons tragic death and the fact I simply cant start my blog looking at such sad news I thought I'd start with the future of my surf club.
I'm almost certain theres a budding A.I somewhere in this snap.

Andy Irons found dead in his hotel room at just 32.

Triple world surfing champion Andy Irons found dead in his hotel room at just 32 

Three times world surfing champion Andy Irons has been found dead in a Dallas hotel room.

The 32-year-old had made the stop on his way home to Hawaii after failing to show up during a competition in Puerto Rico.

Employees at the Grant Hyatt Hotel DFW Airport found his body at 9.44am local time and public safety officials said he had died from unknown causes.

Champion: Andy Irons, 32, was found dead in a Dallas hotel room after withdrawing from a surfing competition in Puerto Rico

Irons was expected to compete against two Australian surfers in the first heat of the 2010 Rip Curl Pro Search on Saturday, but did not show up.

Officials said he withdrew from the competition the next day, citing an illness he contracted during an event in Portugal.

A statement posted on the website of sponsor Billabong said: 'The world of surfing mourns an incredibly sad loss today with the news that Hawaii's Andy Irons has died.

'Irons, 32, withdrew from a professional surfing event in Puerto Rico last weekend due to illness and passed away during a layover en-route to his home in Kauai, Hawaii.

'He had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease.'

Illness: Mr Irons, who lived in Hawaii and won the world title three times, was said to have been battling dengue fever

Reports said that Irons had spent two days in Miami on an intravenous drip, but insisted on heading home to see his own doctor.

But he deteriorated and could not make a connecting flight to Hawaii from Dallas and checked into the hotel.

Family members travelled to Dallas yesterday.

Jodi Wilmott, a spokesman for the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing event in Hawaii - which Irons won four times - said: 'The thing that I think many of us appreciated the  most about Andy was that he was an incredibly real person.

'Where a lot of champions in sports and celebrities become very guarded and you just wonder sometimes if you're really seeing who they are, you've got Andy Irons 100 per cent of the time.'

Irons was regarded as one of the world's best competitive surfers and won the world championship in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

He is survived by his wife Lyndie, who is eight months pregnant with their first chil

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326176/Andy-Irons-Former-world-surfing-champion-dead-hotel-room.html#ixzz14Dx0cxrK

A Few Folio Faves

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French Bashing

One of the king of the Groms setting up a little too high and taking a decent lip on the head.

Grab it before it goes on Ebay

Ring me on 07725858489 if you are interested.

Loki

First surf lesson the other day and she ripped. Better than me!
Got the mini studio out the other day to take pics of my Housing...for sale by the way. Couldnt resist forcing Loki to pose.

FOR SALE

A huge desire to upgrade my equipment has meant the sad and unwanted departure of my most treasured item. My SPL. The pro's choice of water housing and the best thing I have ever bought. Ill be selling it with my Canon 30D and a lens. It has been used to take the pics on this blog but cared for and looked after like no other water photog would have.
Im looking for £1500 for all the kit. This rig cost me in total over £3000 less than 2 years ago.
please contact me if your interested
07725858489

KOOKS

These two should be shot!

France last week

Tones of late summer

Cover Boy

Sennen's Matt Travis made the cover of Wavelengths Longboard supplement. The young longboarder is one of many Sennen rippers who have recently graced the Uk's magazines. Good work Caf.

Winter wandering

A reminder of what winter provided us last year. Hugo deciding not to take the set!!!

British Champ

On Saturday afternoon James Parry, Sennen local and all round top bloke was crowned British Longboard Champion at The final BLU at Gwithian.
Knocking out Ben Skinner in the semi final he needed to win the final in order to maximise points and take the championship.
Needless to stay, calm and collected and along side fellow Sennen surfer Matt Travis he stormed to a welcome victory.
Well done James and best of luck in the Europeans next week.

flying lessons

An air display from Tristan Jenkins and Robbie Cornwall is pretty impressive when you're just inches from their fins.
I bottled it every time not managing to get full air time but a helmet in the future will give a little more courage I hope.