Videos: Escaping the Western Australia winter in Bali

Contributed by Janos Palko

Monday, October 1, 2012 10:28am

Here's a lesson in ocean currents and weather patterns. As summer winds down for us in the Northern Hemisphere, our neighbors to the south are just thawing out from a long winter. Western Australia is home to all three surfers featured in the following two clips, and as the name of the first clip featuring Taj Burrow and Jake Patterson in Yallingup implies, the cold rugged winter has had Western Australia firmly in her grasp.

In the second clip, Burrow and Patterson's good mate..