Longboard Downhill - Kloukura

Surfboard Racks - Get 'em at The Ultimate Surf Shop

Get down to The Ultimate Surf Shop and have a look at these nice 5 board stand-alone racks. These racks not only hold surfboards but wakeboards and snowboards too!!
They sit in any room of your house from lounge to bedroom to garage and will even go next to the outdoor shower at your Beach Bach. Talk to Andre down at the shop for Price and Stock availability.



The Ultimate Surf shop display rack

Digging through the archive

There is still one surf session that remains the best that I have had to date, we even dubbed it 'Tawh That Thursday'. The pictures can do the talking...

18th March 2010

The crazy thing is that the surf report was 2-3ft offshore. It was a groundswell so it must have spiked immensely! When we turned up, expecting a fun 2-3ft, we were presented with something more like 6-7ft.



Southern Solitude - 4weeks in the South Island of New Zealand

I created a post a while back about the DIY campervan bed setup we made for one of the boys who was doing a 4week surf trip around the South Island of New Zealand...

Well he has since returned and kindly given me a hand full of pictures from his endeavours, from such places as Aramona Spit to South East Mahia Peninsula.

Enjoy...



 

Dawn Patrol

Rise and shine, it's groundswell time

Sunday 5th of May 4:00am, my alarm clock goes off and its almost the only time im excited to here it at such an hour because it means only one thing – Dawn Patrol up the coast!!

I chuck my gear in the back of my wagon and head to one of the boys house where the rest of the crew is meeting up. We load up all the gear into the ‘Surfari’ van and hit the road.

Two hours later around 6.30am and we are up the coast at our destination, a left hand sand bar 20kms out of Whangarei. Unfortunately it wasn’t completely firing - surfable 2ft but nowhere near what we came for (have surfed this bar at 4ft and that’s when it’s good). Sooooo… we head 15mins up the road to our reliable backup beachie, BAM she is 3-4ft+ and glassy with a beautiful sunrise behind it.

After a 2hour session at Sandy Bay we jump back in the van and head back down to the local food stop and empty their pie and sausage roll rack. After an epic feast we decided to give the sand bar one more look over in case the incoming tide helped it pick up. It did look a little better but still not worth the big paddle. Binoculars tend to be very handy.

By now its about noon and all still keen for one more session on the way home. We eye up a spot in the surf bible thats happy to get NW winds and still exposed to the easing swell. Extra effort to access this right hand river mouth ensured us it would be empty. We get to the peak and its an empty lineup with leftover 2-3ft. Epic way to end the day.