Great so far. We left Wilmington leisurely yesterday around 10:30am. We loaded an enclosed trailer with the short boards and gear, put 4 longboards on top of the Suburban, got fuel and lunch and then hit the road. I drove the entire time. We stopped at the Jacksonville Beach Pier around 6:30pm for a quick surf. It was small but fun and Bradley almost got in a fight with a drunk guy. Then we packed up to head to Melbourne. We stopped at a Golden Corral for dinner and made it to the hotel around 1am.
This morning we got up late, around 11am, and headed to the beach. First we surfed at Canova Park. It had reef on the bottom so it was sketchy. It was hard to get out with rocky reef sticking up everywhere. Getting out was even harder. We got out after almost 2 hours and drove to the contest site at the Cocoa Beach Pier. The we headed south to the other end of Melbourne and surfed the boardwalk. The bottom their was much better. The waves were big and crumbling. Lots of fun. We got out around dark. Brennan, Bradley, Shane, and Julian went to a pizza place and Corey, Big Chief and I just hung around the truck. We slide over to The Longboard House. It was amazing. TONS of surfboards. They had a one-of-a-kind Rennie Yater Spoon with abalone inlay for $20,000. We talked to Randy Howell, who used to run Hot Wax Surf Shop and now works there, for a few minutes and I bought a new hat. We headed back to the hotel, dropped everyone else off and Big Chief and I drove around looking for a dinner spot. We ended up at a Denny's.
Now we're back at the hotel winding down. More surf tomorrow.
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