2009 Statistics.

In it's first full year online, www.sandonpointphotos had 8 million hits during 2009, with around 40,000 unique or different visitors and around 5,000 visitors every month. The first figure is flattering but also somewhat misleading as every time someone goes to a new image, including small ones like the thumbnails, it is counted as a hit. Given that, it is nonetheless encouraging to see so many people interested enough to come here and have a look around the site. Your support is genuinely appreciated. Visitors to the site have accessed around 90 gig of data over 2009 and visited over 1 million pages or 7 million files. As you would expect, hit rates and visitor numbers are very swell dependant. The day after a good swell I can expect around 400 different people to visit the site. Hopefully 2010 will bring consistent great swell to our beautiful local area with the myriad of excellent breaks going off. Enjoy the festive season, get some waves and thanks again for your support. Clarrie.

THE 2 CLASSIC SANDON POINT LINE UP POSTERS shown below are available for only $2 per print.

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From now on ALL my VIDEO CLIPS will be hosted on youtube. It allows me to upload larger files at a higher resolution and leave them online indefinitely. I have added all my older clips from 2007 onwards that have been on my website in the past but had to be taken off to free up space. My youtube username is "aussieclarrie" which you can use to search on youtube. Alternatively just click HERE which opens a new window at the youtube page where all the clips are shown.

Want to see a higher resolution version of an image of yourself? Send me an email with an image number and date and I will email you one. If you haven't yet seen one of my images at full resolution then you will be blown away.

Images no Longer on this site.... I have had a number of requests from people who only found this site after I started to remove older images. They were keen to hunt up images of themselves from those images no longer available on the site. I can supply a disk with all those images as previously displayed on the site. These would take forever to go through, hunting for images of yourself but it is the only option for those newer visitors who didn't get to see them when they were on the site. A good chore for those days without swell or nights when there is nothing else to do. Once you have identified images of yourself from the images on that disk, get back to me to order the full resolution versions. Please email if you are interested in this option as I will not be uploading those many tens of thousands of images back onto the site.

All the 18 video clips I removed from the site to free up space are now available again on Youtube. These clips cover local surfing over the last 2 1/2 years. From now on all my video clip trailers will be hosted on Youtube. Click HERE or on the "Videos" link above.

Sunday 14th The 5 local surf board rider clubs had their annual interclub comp today at Thirroul Beach. Sandon Point Boardriders ended up winning the actual competition. There are over 800 images on site. All of these images are available to the competitors for FREE at full resolution and full size in jpg format. This free oprion is only available via email. Just email me with the image number you are after. This FREE option is only available for one week. After that time the images will be deleted from my computer to free up space. The original images are each just under 20 mb and I can't store them on my computer forever as it would fill up in a few weeks. They are all stored on external hard disks but it is a bit of a mission to reiport them from there. Anyhow, email me for your free copies. A great opportunity to see the resolution of the images I take.

Thursday 11th. On Tuesday we had probably the last summer day of surfing and today we had our first winter southerly swell. Images from both the morning and afternoon sessions are up.

Wed. 10th March. Afternoon waves down the Point today.

Tuesday 9th March. It felt like summer today. Light offshore with, 3 ft sets, blue water, and about 300 hundred guys on one peak. Images are up on site.

Thursday 4th March. Ben "Rubberman" Anderson just returned from a trip to ANTARCTICA. He very kindly made his images available for all of us to enjoy. Click HERE to have a look, it is worth it.

Monday 1st March. Well Feb was a good month with lots of consistent swell. Hopefuly March will continue that trend. Only 6 of the regular crew out this morning, along with a few dolphins.

Friday 26th Feb. Last day of the current swell. To the surprise of the 8 crew out at the Point this morning, everyone else stayed away. Lucky guys.

Thursday 25th. Good conditions early down the Point. I took some images but had a camera problem and I still have to decide if any can be saved.

Wednesday 24th. The southerly swell arived but it was only OK. I had 3 sessions down the Point as a southerly was blowing. All images are now up on the site.

Wednesday 17th. Sountherly was up early so yet again the Point was the only real option. Early was best. A couple of bomb overhead sets did come through but mostly it was 3 to 5 ft. Images are all up.

Tuesday 16th. Still a bit of swell around. With a south westerly blowing early the Point was the obvious choice. I went back down again for a session during the late afternoon.

Having a bit of a rest between waves. 30-10 Interclub Challenge

Chris Demito in one of the smallest tubes I've seen a grown man get into in a while. Thirroul Sunday 14th. 30-10 Challenge.

Skiing Photos. A lot of people have asked about my eldest son Woodie and are keen to see some images of his exploits in Europe. I have created a 4th page in the Images to Dream of section with a selection of his better shots. Click here to go straight to that page or click on page 4 above.

Woodie is spending the next 3 weeks at Anchor Point in Morocco. I received a few images of "Draculas" going off along with a few others. Click HERE or on the image of Draculas below and have a look. More coming.

Want to advertise on www.sandonpointphotos.com ? Send me an email via this link ... contact Clarrie.

Click here for all the thousands of previous images from 2009 and 2010

Want to see how to access the albums and images as quickly as possible? I have created a new HELP PAGE. Click HERE.

I plan to only keep images on site for 6 months

Images from JUNE 2009 will be removed from the site in the near future . Check for images of yourself before they are taken off and write down image numbers. They will still be stored permanently in my image library at home. As long as you keep an image number, they are always accessible for any bulk image purchase in the future. The more support the site gets, the larger the amount of online hard disk space I can justify paying for. That would allow me to keep my images up on the site for longer. I currently only have 5 gig of online hard disk space.

I have created a "Best Of" Page where the better images from the last few years are available to be viewed. Click HERE or on the "Best Of" Link above. These have been divided into years and breaks at which they were taken.

New and secondhand Surfboards FOR SALE. Click HERE. .. NEW BOARDS $250 !!!! Only 5 left.

I have added a secondhand surf gear for sale page. Take a couple of photos of your gear and list it on www.sandonpointphotos.com. You have a 100% targeted audience of over 5,000 thousand visitors, mainly from our local area, visiting the site every month. To date, 5 surfboards listed here have already been sold. Click here for details.

Off and running at the start of the Tag Team Event. Sunday 14th March.

Sandon Point Boardriders. Winners of the 2010 30-10 Interclub Challenge

Jake Spooner warming up for the Tag Team Event

Slotted during the 30-10 Interclub Challenge

There weren't many but there were a few cover ups. 30-10 Interclub Challenge

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