Freestyle Now head honcho Shaun Jarvis sent in this up date from the North West of Western Australia where he has been for the last week with Dylan Schmidt, Laurence Bakewell and Billy Brooks.
“Hey all, just letting ya all know what’s been happin on the up north trip. We flew into Port Hedland on Friday morning. Got to our accommodation at a mine camp and then went out to explore the town for some spots. Friday arvo we hit up South Hedland skatepark for a coaching session. Was a good feeling to help out some young shredders learn some new skills. We then headed over to the Port Hedland Skatepark. This was amazing to ride, totally lit up like daylight with a full roof over head. We all had a mad session at the park well into the night. This park is awesome. The next day we slept in and then headed down to the festival sight to organize the set up for the bmx stunt shows Port Bound youth festival, the reason we came up north. The stunt shows were rad with a good crowd rockin. The 6:30 and 7:30 shows were by far the best. We had a mad autograph session after with a stack of Freestyle Now T-shirts being sold and signed. Sunday came around fast, it was the last day for Laurence. We took up the invite to ride the Port Hedland BMX track. From there it was time to hit up a rad street spot we found although I was the only one to ride it as Billy, Dylan and Laurence were knackered from riding the BMX track. From there we went to this spot called pretty pools, a tidal inlet that is great to swim in,refreshing to say the least. One more stop was to be had at the sculpture we saw on our way into town on the first day. Laurence busted out a flair and then to the airport it was. Laurence was on his way to Perth and we were on our way to Derby for another coaching jam. Our first stop was in Pardoo about 100kms north of Port Hedland as we were staying there Sunday night.
Laurence Bakewell sculpting a flair in Port Headland
Top – The race is on??, Bottom right – Good times, Bottom left – The sun rise in Pardoo
Monday morning it was up at the crack of dawn and off to Broome a good 6 hours drive. Upon arriving in Broome we scoped out the town for spots, not that many but some. Checked into the backpackers and then off to the skatepark. Tricks were done, clips were taken and then time to swim. The beach in Broome is great. We went at a low tide so it was a good 150 metres of beach to walk. Broome has 6 metre tides. That night we went for a street ride and then later it was off to the beach for a late night swim. Next day Tuesday was a explore Broome day. We got to a beach spot to find the beach covered in tiny crazy crabs, they were everywhere, like ants, it was the most amazing thing to see. We then ventured out to Gantheaume Point for more exploring. Dylan and Billy went rock jumping into the ocean while I took the opportunity to ride some flatland on some of the smoother flatter rocks. More riding around the Port, more clips, more good times and then back to Cable Beach to watch the sunset. Again that night it was a late night swim at the beach.
Clockwise from top left – Dylan tucks it at Broome skatepark, Billy nosing near the sun at Broome skatepark, Shaun rock riding – photo billy brooks, Dylan rails at the port.
Broome’s sunset and Shaun’s backyard – photo billy brooks
The trip so far has been unbelievable with so many good sights seen and random riding spots. Day 6 of our trip we are off to Derby so I will send in another update to let ya all know how the rest of the trip rolls. Stay rad and have good times always”
