YUMMMM yummmmmmmmm

After spending a week in the northern parts of the surfing world with a mixed bag of fruit..some VERY ripe, some just average, we will give you guys a full update with pictures that you can drool over......(yes it was crankin' sometimes)..(like REALLY crankin')...
PEACE FROM DA RAT

3 Days Left

We are soooooo close now..I saw the pictures from Hoddevik today..it was crankin' here's a couple of pics..i'm so amped i cant sleep!!! hahaha Peace from DA RAT

This last shot was taken from the window of torkilds house about 400m away!!! It was goin aaarrrrrrrrfffff mate....!!

15 days

Only 15 days left till we get on the road, thru hell to get to NORWAY AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER!

The negatives are many,

5 degs in the water, probably just over the zero level temps out of the water, a hell drive over the mountains and thru the fjords in most likely horrendous snowstorms with definite risk of encountering very large animals wandering over the road in the form of MOOSE and other lovely creatures such as deer or reindeer or foxes etc etc etc.

There are only 2 positives,

Firstly we will most likely get perfect cranking barrels and

secondly, we'll most likely be alone in the water or with people already know..max crowd of 5 total..

IS IT WORTH IT??

YOU BET YOUR LIFE IT IS!!

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 15 DAYS LEFT AND COUNTING EVERY SECOND TILL WE GO.

We promise to give the full rundown to ya's with lot's of pics..peace..DA RAT

Good and Bad News

(RAT) Sorry we haven't updated so much the last little while but it's not strange really, because of several reasons..

Firstly, the Baltic Sea froze this year and so surfing is downright impossible until maybe april.

Secondly, it has been a real winter here and really cold for ages and ages.

Thirdly, apart from Andrew and Frexi, all of us others have kids and winters are filled with all sorts of sport activities that suck a parents' free time to the maximum.

OK, enough of the ramblings!!!

The BAD news first..... Our CLASSIC 'Midnight Runners' life member Andrew lost his job over here in Sweden and has been forced to go back to the States..bummer..very sad for us other crew members..he was a really funny guy and a part of the gang ..he will be sadly missed..hope he gets back here soon..the photo's I put in are a little tribute to him..we are gunna miss you 'Pinky'..

The GOOD news is that the remainder of the crew Jay, me and Johan are off to Norway for a week on the 9th of March..only 18 days left Yeeehoooo..we have scored great surf every time we have gone because we have just 'taken off' when the surf report looked good. This time, however, we were forced to book a week in the calender and chance that there will be surf because Jay's wife is expecting a baby in 2 months..we figured we had to take Jay on a 'last mission of freedom' assault, (kind of like a buck's night sort of thing, hahaha) before he buckles down with 2 little kids for a while..
We promise to put in some insane pics..even if the surf is crap I'm sure I can get Johan to do something superbly dangerous to give you readers some enjoyable pictures to look and laugh at..hahahahaa..anyway..until 9th march peace from the midnight runners..RAT

Merry Christmas and a happy new year

have a great 2009 everyone..peace from DA RAT

BOOOOOOOORING

Where are you guys-- no surf pics, no surf stories, no nothing..no surf either but it don't give you excuses..in 1 week i'm changing the password if ya don't start telling a few lifetime truths.. come on someone must have a secret surfing story with some old pics to fill in the time till there's waves again...until then

secret.....' 85 coming back from 10ft airport reef

byron bay night '06

rat in portugal 89

belangen bali.. only us there 85

how's that....i challenge you all...jay, johan, andrew and woodsy..let's do it..DA RAT

We missed another one!

(RAT) Saw that there would be waves yesterday and after work I checked smhi and they had had really good surf yesterday arvo at that beach we know anout that works in a southerly swell..jeeeesus..Since we started surfing as a group up here we have never missed so many surfable days as we have the last 2 months..i'm depressed...now it looks like it's gunna be flat up here again for another week and all the surf that seems to break is coming during the weekdays.having taken so many weeks off this year i feel guilty about pissing off from work any more..it's not fair.........booohooooooo!!!!

Remote but still possible

(rat) Seeing as I am the oldest, the best surfer (hahahahaa) and THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER WRITES ANYTHING ON OUR BLOG ANYMORE!!!! I thought I'd add one more post..it's remotely possible that there can be surf on saturday but more likely sunday..who's in?? As I said, we will have to watch the sights but there can be beach surf at least for a mal or a fat fish..cooome on boys get lively..funny how an old man like me can still be more surf crazy than you guys,,hahahaha..just kidding..keep an eye on it..da ratsafrii..peace.....