we escaped north today up to stockton beach, which is about 2.5 hours north of sydney, near newcastle. a bunch of friends from work were going quad-biking up on the sand dunes there, so we tagged along and hung out on the beach. it was a gorgeous sunny day with just the right amount of cloud cover in between. for me it was heaven just hanging out on the beach. you kind of forget that there’s a whole world out there when you’re staring at digital penguins for 70+ hours a week!

on friday we also got a chance to hang out with an old friend dave mahfet from seattle. we hadn’t seen each other since we left seattle back in 2004, but we’ve all become addicted to surfing since then so there was plenty to catch up on!