Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Down to the North

It was getting a bit chilly in the south, so to extend the summer a little, we took a trip to the far north of NZ.

Despite spending half our budget in the first night at Waiheke, the trip kicked off to an awsome start up the west coast, with about 6-8ft swells, Offshore and i was the only person going out for a surf...? This was too good to be true!!! The whole trip, we were like off shore wind magnets, is this always the case, with the ever changing, unique climate of the far north?

The eastie was a bit slack with minimal swell, but such a beautiful place who can go wrong?

This trip left me feeling like why the hell do we live here in the south, i didnt even get my steamer out at all, its already ball freezingly cold here in chch and the beches dont look like the pages from the travel magazines. (well some of them do)

There is no doubt the north is a special place to be a surfer.

In no particular order:

Northland goodness, empty, clean, sizey and offshore, who needs to work anyway?







This place was crazy massive, desite the crap shots, was no doubt my favorite place..



Its hard to tell from the crappy digi zoom but the little glassy waves in the shorey were about 3 ft.. out back it was subsquently a lot bigger :P


Around every bend was a new break just screaming to be surfed.. empty again.




Cape reinga had a few waves, but you'd have to be insane to paddle out where the tasman sea meets the pacific.




Down the east coast you could see the potential..




The Infamous Taupo Bay.. nice place, but no swell and i was truly gutted.. Check out the shots at the Whangaroa surf blog of a good day..




mini goodness.




hmm to go or not to go?



Give me a sign?



Howling onshores and 8ft swell, about a kilometre paddle through whitewash... maybe not..

3 comments:

Nick said...

ooooooooooohhhh the Envy is just running through me. Good to see a Epic Blog update Brett!
Shots are looking good.. The waves even better.

South Island Kick's ass! Except for the Winter months.
Gore Bay Team trip to the North Island!! yeeeeewwwww

Anonymous said...

super duper shot-erenos bretty. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm such eccentricity totaly.




BOGUS

Unknown said...

Good to see you caught a bit of the Far north doing its thing.
The east coast has been slack for months as you found.
but looks like you found a few spots on the west.