"We escaped the horrid cold of a Victorian winter and headed for the warmer waters of the Maldives."

So wrote Hayden O'Neill in the email that accompanied these photos. It wasn't only warmer waters Hayden scored, he and his mates lucked into a week of 4- 6 foot bliss topped by one day in the 8 - 10 foot range. The resort they stayed at was popular with older fellas mixing a surf and family holiday. This made it easy to pick the session times: when the old boys headed off for QT Hayden and his mates headed out for their own version of Quality Time, surfing 3 -4 times a day with no more than 2 others in the water.

All photos by Hayden.