Manly surfer and occasional Swellnet contributor, Mick Freeman, has spent the past few weeks traipsing around the dark continent, or at least its lower coastal periphery. From Skeleton Bay in Namibia ("four foot with four of us out") to Capetown and then on to J'Baai while the comp is on ("Curren called me into one last night and then he still went"), Mick is clearly missing the Australin winter.

Most of these photos are from Round 1 of the comp, while the last two were taken at you-know-where.