Wayno wrote:IAintTouchin wrote:Hey guys, I'm back from volunteering at Kangaroo Island's surf music festival and ASP World competition. It was greatest thing to have ever happened to the South Australian surfing community. I had the time of my life there. Kangaroo Island is one of the greatest places in Australia. I would rather go to KI then Sydney any day.
hey mate, glad you had a good time. Didn't hear much about it in the local rag. Just
this.
KI was probably pumping. How many people turned up for the event?
The music festival was huge. There were about 1500 in the tent city, and heaps more that came. I'd say it'd be roughly 2500 - 3000. Only problem was Sealink thought that because we were volunteers, we'd pretty much do a majority of the work for them so they had us working 14-16 hours a day. The leader of Christian Surfers worked non-stop 130 hours in the set-up week. He ate as he worked but it was still very unhealthy.
Apart from that, the crowd practically loved us for what we did. There wasn't any major problems with the crowd which was good and because it was all the way in Kangaroo Island, you wouldn't want to get kicked out after travelling that far. However, there was a lot of weed (being a hippi festival and all) but everybody was well behaved.
The protesters were absolute dickheads though, we had to deal with them burning haystacks in the tent city on 30 degree days, chucking salmon blood into the ocean during the competition heats, trying to steal our AAA passes (a pass that gets people onto the stage) and trying to fight us. I bet you didn't hear that in the Advertiser.
Thankfully, there was only 4 of them and they were dealt with pretty quick.
All in all, for a first-time attempt at this, Sealink did a great job.
Now with Beer Garden for our smoking patrons.
