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A couple of years in the making and it’s finally here. My good mate Jason Hearn’s much anticipated film, The Africa Project will premier on Friday 25 November at Trinity, 15 Bennett Street, Green Point, Cape Town.

If you’re  a surfer in South Africa you would have heard all about it. For those of you who haven’t, it’s basically a film or documentary about Africa and travel in Africa seen through the eyes of a surfer. I was fortunate enough to be involved in the project, traveling to Senegal, Morocco, Reunion and around South Africa shooting stills and seen the footage. This is definitely something you don’t want to miss!

Pre-drinks at 18:30, Movie starts at 20:00,  it’s free so if you in Cape Town, be there… For those who are not, don’t worry, a road show is been planned heading along the coast up toward Durban in January…

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So I was going through my files from our Morocco trip last year and had a good laugh when I found this one from a spot down south Denny took us to. It’s way off the map and unless you know someone who knows someone… chances are you’ve never heard of it, but thats beside the point… Nice West African line-up but Denny, come on bro, did you have to give your ass a good scratching just as a perfect set pulled through?? haha

I decided to Google surfers ear to find a pic to put with this post. I’m not sure what I thought I was going to find but there were some pretty gross looking things. The inner ear is not a looker so instead of been put off and immediately closing this page I went with this nice clean diagram.

Why I’m blogging about surfers ear? Well after about 10 years of the doctors telling me that my ears were really bad and that I would have to get them drilled, it got to a point where I simply couldn’t put it off any longer. My ears were 90% grown closed and had about 50% hearing… awesome when I’m wanting to sleep in and ignore Bella (my food obsessed labrador) telling me it’s breakfast time but not so cool when I’m trying to negotiate a deal on the phone…

To put it simply surfers ear is basically a defense mechanism. When the ear is subjected to cold water and wind it decides to protect the inner ear by growing closed. Unfortunately it grows closed with bone and has to be drilled and chipped open, awesome! So here i am, two days after the op, both ears blocked, stuffed with cotton wool and a couple myprodols for company… haha, it’s really not that bad.  I should have hearing back in a few days. Worst part is that you out the water for 6 weeks, no getting the ears wet… very strict instructions from Dr Williams. Ok maybe it’s not the best time of the year for surf but it’s 40 degrees out side, come on…