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25.01.2022 Gave Henrique Mota’s sign a buff & spray - voila! Better than ever. See you tomorrow on the Manly beachfront for Ocean Care Day. Be there or be , daddy-O.

23.01.2022 Five years ago I was confident what the wax I had in mind would be like; & what it would do. I’m still a Chillax user, every time.

20.01.2022 Who knew that hammerheads could be this big??

19.01.2022 Chasing a wave near Victor, 3 years ago...

18.01.2022 A good surf in a strong northerly tow & a challenging break at The Pass, Byron Bay. Made a few new friends/Chillax customers today; Chillax will be back.

18.01.2022 Another fatal attack. Authorities continue to dither; & locals are surprised, because they’ve only seen hammerheads, tigers & reef sharks in their waters...?? As long as we continue to fail to implement an effective strategy of deterrence or repellence, people will continue to die; & we will collectively wring our hands & scratch our heads. There are plenty of good shark fishermen up there - go & catch a couple of likely culprits, leave the bodies (wrapped in hessian or somet...hing similar) outside for five days, then anchor them 500m offshore. Their emitting necromone will repel all predatory sharks from the area for three months. What are we waiting for?! Man killed in shark attack at Broome's Cable Beach http://www.abc.net.au//fatal-shark-attack-at-cabl/12908578

15.01.2022 Scratch Obsession sales in India, Africa & the Americas then... A fascinating scent story. You would think the priority would logically be to figure out what smell/s big predatory cats are deterred or repelled by - something better than a metal breast-plate for goat herders. Can Calvin Klein scent catch a 'killer' tiger? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-45819780

14.01.2022 So it’s finally happened, under my nose, at a spot I’ve surfed in the past week. Chillax followers will be aware that I’ve been quiet since well before the shutdown. I just couldn’t sustain the business as well as myself. What is needed here is an actual response in terms of strategy - when the shark responsible is caught, take the body out of the water for 3-4 days & when it starts to decompose, anchor it 400m offshore. The necromone emitted is the only actual shark deterren...t on earth; & it will literally repel all predatory sharks from the area for 12 weeks. End of. And yes - I’m still applying Chillax before every surf, & thoroughly & passionately recommend every surfer does the same. My sincere condolences to this poor man’s friends & family. https://www.9news.com.au//9cf46193-242a-4a0c-9807-3d1b9ad8

12.01.2022 A brilliant Christmas market at Cooly today. Lily did a fine job. Chick magnet.

10.01.2022 Chillax is not subsidised by the government; it’s not supported by anyone but its customers. Although I make it for surfers, divers & ocean swimmers are buying it - because they’re searching; they find Chillax, they consider, & they buy it. Often I give it away to people who are wavering, but balk at the $20 price tag. It is not just a great organic surfwax twice the size & weight of the petrochemical garbage most use. It is quite now quite possibly the only hitherto unscathe...d deterrent. I think the DPI should be looking more closely into the use of necromone - which I regard as the only real repellent on the planet. The only thing that repels a shark is the smell of a dead shark. Even the boffins have to accept that. Chillax is a deterrent - & I insist it’s worth further investigation & better testing on its own (as opposed to the loaded burleyed farce that took place off the Neptunes). It may well prove itself to be even more. It would appear we are the last ‘commercially’ available strategy not to have had any clients attacked or killed. Make of it what you will. I’m NOT gloating or capitalising on this terrible & frightening news. It is what it is. I’m going to be out of circulation on the market & online sales front for just over three weeks from today, because I’ve volunteered to work 21 twelve hour days straight for Blaze Aid at Macksville on the NSW coast; I’ll probably be fencing to restore urgently needed boundaries for farmers. Fires have obscured the issue of sharks here, as you might expect. Look up BlazeAid & donate. My genuine consolation to Gary, his poor wife, his family & friends. I dearly hope he’s the last...but I doubt it. Progress by authorities & a whole gander of better minds than mine seems glacial. They’re searching for remains. They’re looking into it... They need to look better. This must stop.

09.01.2022 I passed Greenmount minutes before this attack - the surf looked like the morning would be better... Many locals are old enough to know Kirra (about 400m north) is the site of Australia’s worst shark attack. http://sharkattackfile.net//pdf_di/1937.10.27.a-Girvan.pdf... Norm Girvan (18) & Jack Brinkley (23) both lost their lives to at least one tiger that day. In early June we lost Rob Pedretti (60) off Kingscliff - a neighbouring beach across the Tweed to our south. We are under attack. I’m livid. I’m sure the use of a decomposing shark to repel other sharks is an appropriate & effective, strategic, regional response, but you watch...the usual platitudes & inanities will dribble out, & the DPI will confidently continue monitoring tagged sharks. Just mathematically, this is absurd. Ineffective. As for drone monitoring - they would have packed up & shot through by the time of today’s attack. It’s reactive, defensive & mostly redundant. Here’s my suggestion. You contract the best local long line shark fisherman to catch That shark - more straightforward than you might think. After confirming the culprit through post mortem, you use its body. After four days or so, decomposition well underway, you anchor the corpse 500m offshore. The necromone it emits Will Repel All Other Predatory Sharks From The Extended Area For At Least Twelve Weeks. That is how you respond to an apex predator killing one of your species. You kill him, & hang out his corpse to warn off his kind. And yes, Chillax is a bloody good strategy - but it’s a Deterrent. The ONLY thing that REPELS a shark is DEAD SHARK. Until an artificial equivalent is effectively produced (necromone is basically three coppers), we have no other real response to hand. Male surfer dies after shark attack at Gold Coast beach http://www.abc.net.au//man-dies-after-being-attac/12642464

08.01.2022 The Ocean Care Day was terrific; thanks to Sally Powell & the Northern Beaches council for their generous invitation & looking after us all so well. The Ned Kelly pie is a Monday treat I think I earned; Upper Crust in Collaroy makes my favourite. And thanks of course to all the people (such a wide variety, including 4 from Reunion Island) who decided to buy Chillax yesterday - you’re the pioneers. I look forward to your feedback - like I said, good or bad, it’s welcome. I think you’ll be happy with this surfwax...I’m very proud of it.

06.01.2022 I have been dreading this. It's inevitable, in the absence of any real progress on a valid regional or individual strategy. I have to apologise to Chillax followers for my recent silence, but also to those whom I might have either reached with my suggested individual strategy (with more competent marketing & business skills), or those who would benefit from a better presented case for the use of necromone (or rotting shark) as a regional strategy; worldwide. To run such a ca...mpaign; one of defiance, conviction & energy, requires a icecutter-like determination & chutzpah - & I admit here that I have been frozen, immobilised by crushing personal depression (so fashionable in so many men my age). I can't promise that this horrific event will motivate me or reinvigorate my solo mission. I can assure you that my despair on behalf of the victim/s, their families & friends is genuine...unfortunately despair is my daily companion. It robs me of the energy for the fight. More than that, I feel stuck in a vacuum of silent rejection on too many fronts to handle. If an ice cutter stops pushing through the pack ice, it will be trapped & slowly smashed into oblivion. This is not however (I am painfully aware) about me. Today is about the horrific ending of another human life in a manner I am convinced should be redundant. https://www.abc.net.au//shark-attack-reported-nea/11842420

04.01.2022 Just another idyllic Greenmount afternoon; only a few kilometres up the coast from Kingscliff’s tragedy yesterday.

03.01.2022 I didn’t win - but gave it a bloody good shake.

02.01.2022 https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au//wha/ocean-festival Here in Manly for the festival; Ocean Care Day is Sunday.

01.01.2022 Thanks to all our customers at Coolangatta last Sunday, to Lily the pointer for her invaluable presence...happy Christmas to all Chillax supporters everywhere - & count our blessings for the rain this very night up here in northern NSW, as well as some other parts of the country. Here’s to the firemen & women fighting fires across Australia .