You can't really take a surf trip in 2010 and not be aware of what's happening out there."
VOA: standard.2010.08.04
After testing his first makeshift models on a surftrip to Australia and Indonesia, he later realized he would have to manufacture the camera, its housing and the strap all together.
To get his head straight again, Woodman lit out on a surf odyssey through Australia and Indonesia, one last big trip before what he figured would become a life of comfortable middle-class monotony.
She began her trip in Hawaii and island-hopped her way to Fiji then Australia, taking surf lessons, diving the Great Barrier Reef and visiting eucalyptus rainforests along the way.