Black and whighton

Heres a few nice shots from the local..





and one of me about to get loose at midshore..

Winter Swell

As previously predicted, it has been swining offshore on a regular basis, with the howling south westerlies/southerlies, we have been getting a dusting of snow, and some solid south and east ground swells.. this weekend we had a solid 3-5ft over the friday saturday sunday period (these are the only days i can surf cos it is too dark before and after work) heres some shots over the 3 days..




Brighton was an epic paddle.. we paddled for about 40mins and got sucked up the coast and still hadnt got past the second bar. So we hit scarborough (with 200 wave hungry buggers)


freindly chat after a good paddling workout..

Offshore weekend

Winter is truly here.. thats good and bad, its bloody cold and the booties come out of the closet.. but scored SW off shores saturday and sunday!! and its going to be SW alot more due to the temp change.. EPIC!!
We even received a fresh dusting of snow on the hills and the alps!!

Just hit brighton both days, sunday swell had dropped from 2-3ft to the odd 1-2ft.

Saturday surprise

Went up to hanmer so greg could run the hanmer half marathon in 1:42mins nice work.. and on the way back despite the forecast predicting rubbish conditions.. we checked out our favorite left to be greeted by a 2-3ft onshore, soon turning glassy by the time we wandered down the hill!!

And the place was empty!!!

sweet times.



even the middle reef had a nice little wave..

Welcome to winter

Daylight saving has started now.. so goodbye to evening surfs and warm temps.. Hello big autumn/winter swells and weekend warriors!!

A chily little 2-3ft rolled in.. but i had to work.. cheers to someone for teasing me with the pics at work!!

early morning brighton

since we have been moving house like onshores in the summer.. we now living out at brighton.. and had my first official surf at literally my "back door" nice little 2 foot swell and offshores.. you can see my excitement by the quality of my shots

*note to self* i need a new digi cam or shoot more on my "film" slr :(

Hickory Mission

two weekends ago we shot over to stay in gregs batch in Davauchelles.. where b-rad had an encounter with the epic "davauchelles Reef".. We Hit hickory the next day when all of chch was flat.. greeted by a clean 2ft swell and the Canterbury single fin classic. Still plenty of peaks to split with the pros, and had a wicked view of the comp from the water.



single fin classic dominating the farmland

nick aka drop-in "no nads" bandit, living up to his name and dropping in on "me" scoring a nice floater tho..


sweet little lefts
b-rad spinning his nuts off

Scars from the "davauchelles reef" (aka the super steep road we were bombing on our skateboards)




nice shot of the main peak

Brighton lefts

The winds swung SW on sunday and after getting past the "slight" hangover from by brothers stag party, rolled out of bed and hit the water late arvo to a solid 3ft.. 100% commitment, we just went mad and paddled for everything including the odd 4-5ft closeouts.. good times and ner misses from the super shallow sand bars forming at brighton..

Oaro

Shot up to Oaro, and had an epic time, the swell had vanished almost, but there was 1-2ft rolling through on a sweet little shallow reef, with a bit of fin grinding i managed to score a few rides before the tide went out..


then a little off the logriding.. and onto some aotearoa seafood..

scoured the rock pools and scored some good size paua, and these little beauties, "kina" best eaten straight from the source..





a few other little spots that ooze potential on the right swell..