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Public Holiday here today; looking for some old canopies and decided the shed needed a clean. It always takes longer than it should because I get distracted.

Amazing coincidence, I was wondering about surf in Oregon recently and I find a 1979 'Surfer Magazine' with an article on surfing where?



Then there are the pics of my 100th skydive. The 100th is a naked jump here in SA. I am the guy shouting the odds on the exit. To the left is my cousin Sean who used to BASE but is now flying for UNICEF or something in dodgy African countries. He is the one that got me into skydiving in the first place; Good times!



Then I found this panoramic I had made of my 4th BASE jump only partially scanned here. My step daughter was on holiday and I offered to meet up with her Dad at this bridge. It's a 4 hour drive from my house and a 2 hour drive from his. He took these pics. One of my scariest jumps; solo s.l.



Then there is going through my sister's stuff. I am keeping some real silly things of hers but I just can't get myself to chucking it out. Also I always end up finding something I hadn't seen before; but hey, I didn't cry this time...





Then my daughter comes to see what I am doing and the dogs join in and we decide it's a good day for a surf... and tomorrow I still have to clean the shed.

Good stuff man, thanks for sharing!

Quick question RE: your 100th skydive
Was it their 100ths also? Just curious
cause I celebrated mine in the same
way but the only other naked person
on the jump was doing her 100th also.

No, the deal with my cousin was that if he jumped naked on my 100th, then I would jump naked on his 100th. The other dude was just happy to do a naked jump... don't ask.

My cousin then did his in the middle of winter... bastard!

Sounds like a fair deal to me. A friend of mine
and I both started skydiving about the same time
and once we got to about 85 or so we decide we'd
do our 100ths together. I figured jumping with a
younger, cute, naked, blonde, female would make
for better video


I guess I am kind of strange like that guy
cause my 100th, 200th, and 300th were all
done naked. Funny side note, the last one
was a 4-way RW (other 3 wearing jumpsuits)
and I was actually able to turn points better
than a couple of the low-timers on the load.