I was practicing my transitions just up above the first groyne at Botany Bay today, wearing my spanking new Christmas present - my Seabreeze sunnies.

I came in close to shore riding toeside and pulled a downloop to start my transition, but I made the schoolboy error of not committing, looped over way too big a radius, got powered up and ate it very hard head first.

The impact ripped my sunnies of and I lost my board. I figured the sunnies would be close To the board, so I dragged back up to my board, and figured I would get up and then have a look for them.

Just as I strapped the board on some MotherF***er on a jet ski pulled up about 15 metres away, reached down into the water, pulled my sunnies out and put them on. I yelled out to him, he turned around, I pointed to my eyes to indicate that they were my sunnies, he looked at me for a couple of seconds and then just gasses it and headed off straight upwind.

To say I am unimpressed is an understatement - what a cock.

Up until then I was resigning myself to the loss of my sunnies on their first outing, but to have the happiness of seeing them found, then immediately the dissapointment of someone flogging them was really gutting.

Great session apart from that though, I thought it was never going to blow in sydney again!

If I was ever in even the slightest doubt that the world would be a better place without stinky noisy jet skis and the douchebags who ride them then this unfortunate tale has erased it.

That's incredibly bad form, even for a bottom-dwelling jet skier.

as a spectacle wearer (long time) I have had prescription lenses put into sunglass frames, so that is can see when in the water, over the years have found best way to attach then to your head is a shoe lace tied on one arm then around your head and tie off on other arm.
Have found this is better than fancy elastic type ones, that stretch when you face plant into the water at speed.

I would have got his rego off the side of his jetski and then reported it to the cops. If it was 15m away, salvage rules don't apply so its theft, plain and simple.

Moot point - I wasn't quick enough to get any details off the Jetski, apart from the fact that it was green. And that he was a cock.

Hey Clayton,

Sorry to hear year story - amazing .. at the risk of starting an avalanche of Jet Ski sunnie theft claims, I'll come to the party for you on this one & offer a free replacement pair.

Jet Ski's were are real pain down where I live - big mobs (i.e. 50) would come through and destroy the natural vibe. The local council saw fit to ban them from the area, so no more herds of noisy stink boats!

Merry Christmas!

..Lozza

laurie is the man . Now that is what good calmer is about as for the stink boat rider .. well it is coming .

Believe it or not, you were actually lucky. The "locals" on their jet skis in Botany Bay are real wankers.I met a bloke who had a similar incident at that beach, but the jet ski pissed off with his board!

If you take a stroll along the beach down at brighton, you are bound to come accros the same guys. On a nice sunny weekend, there will generally be 20 jet skis on the beach, while all the heros take it in turns showing off in front of each other.

Take a mate or two with you, look out for the same bloke (or his jetski), and you may get your sunnies back. At the very least, get his rego number and report him to the cops.