Personal experience has played a big part in the writing of this novel. Though the story is fiction, the setting is not, and many of the incidents depicted are based on things observed by the author. Unlike the first novel published by Boby Beavers, which was purely fictional this one reveal something of the life style of the author. Though relegated now by arthritis to riding a boogie board, Boby learned how to ride a surf board at a young age and like the lead character in the novel he was drawn back repeatedly to the surfing breaks of Noosa and the region of Australia's Sunshine Coast in which it is situated.