The Quiksilver Crossing visited its last scheduled stop for the East Coast USA tour, Galveston, Texas.

There were cruises for VIP's, staff and sponsored surfers. One of the highlights was the pod of dolphins that escorted the boat during the cruises.

The Galveston main event was a great success. A room had been hired at the Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant. There were banners, posters, Explorations magazines, stickers, a monitor showing the Crossing DVD as well as a projector screening Kelly Slater and the Young Guns and Timmy Turner Second Thoughts.....all going on as the Indies Trader moored right outside the restaurant. The crowd varied from families with young children to the local Galveston surfing community at large. It was a great show of support from the Texan surfers.

The Indies Trader open day was also a great success. Tours were ran from midday until 6pm and in that time we had 190 visitors to the boat. Many of the visitors had come from Corpus Christi along with other neighboring surf areas. Local surf photographer G Scott snapped away all day and captured the essence of the visit to Texas.

Being back in salt water and being surrounded by surfers again did great things for the morale of the crew. Local surf shop owner and the pioneer of ‘oil tanker surfing’ James Fulbright treated Dovi and Guy to a session in this anomalous way to catch waves. James was featured in the recent DVD ‘Stepping into liquid” and offered to take the the crew for a session of oil tanker surfing.