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"Those boys have some epic tales..." said Craig of his recent trip to the South Coast of Australia with Occy and Matt Hoy. Later this week we'll dig into some of those tales and begin chronicaling the final few months before Craig releases his new film, Slow Dance, which will be released this summer.

Craig has literally criss-crossed the globe like six times making this flick, sometimes darting for a swell, sometimes hunkering down for weeks until there is a swell. Sometimes never getting a swell. During our recent trip to Australia I remember standing next to Craig at a bar and chatting. I then saw him again at the same bar three days later. "What have you been up to?" I asked.

"Well, I went to Tahiti for two days...just got back," he chuckled. Sneaky two days in Tahiti and right back.

This most recent trip in Australia is one of the final installments and from the looks and sounds of it, there was no shortage of story time. Occy was filming Craig on a Handy Cam. Matt Hoy was sinking beers with Mick Lowe and the old boys were having a hell time reminiscing.

We'll have more behind the scenes of Craig's film later this week.