Shakas

The super talented Ryan Tatar has a great blog i cant help but check out daily, Shakas and Single Fins.


I was feeling a bit uninspired, so i thought i would make him a few doodles for his header, there have been a few great blog headers floating around and a couple of my favourites are:

Adrian Knott, shakas and single fins:



and Jeff Canham for the swallow tail society:

Mid week Magnet

East coast was flat again, so we hit magnet for what was predicted to be only a foot or so of swell, what a surprise it was to be greeted with a solid 3-4ft and ruffled offshores!!

Mental session, resulting in a happy wave buzz and a foot that looks like it has been in a blender :(





We turned up and had the place to ourselves, until a school bus of grommets turned up, resulting in chaos in the line-up. I think i came in at this point.




b-rad stayed for a couple..

West Coast Mission

Raced over to the West Coast of NZ in search of some swell, and a half marathon (which greg ran in 1:33) and scored the dying 3-5ft swells at T-bay.




B-rad giving it a working over.





Rhymes with the T-bay shuffle.





Great peaks for fly aways.

Flat Spell

Its been flat on the east coast for ages now, but we discovered a secret break up the coast that was serving up some pretty heavy consistant cover-ups. B-rad couldnt help but get amoungst.

Night Surf

Had a fun dusk/night session at a random location up the coast.. Possibly not the best spot to be trying to scramble up a 40ft cliff, in the darkness..

Summer sessions

Time for a long awaited update, spent the new year period up at the bay, 7 days of non stop sun and 1-3ft waves goin offshore most evenings!! Epic.

Brighton spring sessions

wooo havnt updated in while.. apart from being super lazy 1) I had a hematoma in my knee from snowboarding, so just got angry when the surf was pumping but i did manage to get a few shots on the film camera, and 2) the spring wind has been howling onshore for the past few weeks..

but in amoungst the NE wave engulfers there has been a few good evening off shores..

heres a shot showing the state of the sand bars. the inner bar has been producing insane barrel sections, with an ankle deep sand bars..

frozen finger chronicles

Although the icey offshore breath of winter has left and we are welcoming in warm water temps and strong onshores i finally have developed my film from the winter..

Its just a collection of about 3 or 4 sessions at my backyard (new brighton)

Magnets

Nice session at magnets.. a week ago now now, but since i munted my knee hitting rails, im still dreaming of this mental 5 hour session. Must be summer already?

i only snapped a few shots as we bolted back over the hill to ease our surfed out stomachs with some food, but the session went as follows, arrive, 2-4ft sets rolling in at mid-high tide, by the time we get in the water, the tide is so high the sets are less frequent and smaller..the crowd thins to just us.. 1 hour later the tide has dropd and the wave fest begins..