Is this a good idea?

We’ve had more big waves today. This board rider may be having second thoughts.

After the floods, internet access is a big problem. There are reports that 80,000 fibre-optic services are down in the Northern Rivers region, and no one is saying when they might be restored. We can, occasionally, get into the internet by mobile wireless (as I’m doing to post this blip) but that service is overloaded and very slow.