ben's park

joey caught wind of a skatepark on a property just out of bairnsdale,
about 3 hours east of melbourne (ish). and managed to organise
with the park curator/shredder Ben for some of us to go out there
and enjoy it with him.
morgs downs a tiger to warm up.

this is bens driveway, about 2kms of bumpy single lane dirt track

and there she lays, bens park!
taken him about two years of gradual building and bloody well worth it.
i dont have any pics of the bowl corner to bank section
or the wood mini. sorry.
i got too carried away skating it.

surrounding bens park was bens (dads) stuff.
i dont know what that thing does,
but it has its own roof.

iv got a pretty good idea what this thing does.

this thing used to have a purpose,
but now it gets skated and has a whole new purpose.

im guessing ben used this fella to built his park, or chase away the neighborhood cats.

skated up a thirst

and a hunger

good scene

i was pretty tempted to make a bath and get
nude in the wilderness but that might have got wierd.

the calm before the ropeswing storm...

the aim was to swing onto bens roof,
i got my tippy toes on to it but thats as close as i got.
a week later and my stomach muscles still hurt,
im not sure if its coz iv never used my upper body
like this before or from laughing at joeys slam.
(keep an eye on funniest home videos for that one!)
ben makes it look soo easy. swing local.

not feeling the ropeswing, morgs bombs the dirt driveway instead.

and after a long rad day we hit the road back to the big smoke.
a huge thanks to ben and his buddies for having us.
and showing us how to ropeswing like a real man...