Sun at last! and waves...

we arrived in Gisborne yesterday around noonish. After 3 long days of no sunshine we were stoked beyond belief. we were checking the very iffy forcast in New plymoth a few days back and decided to try our luck more to the north. The rain, 25ft seas and 30kt winds didn't look to promising. We drove from taranaki to Wangamata on the coramandal penninsula after going for a surf and hoped for better conditions and weather there...of course we awoke to the only thing worse than stormy and rainy, flat and rainy. After I pouted for a little bit and taylor told me to deal with it we headed to Mt manganui. Score! 40kt winds, sand blowing every which way, rain, freeeeeezing and no waves. We decided we'd driven enough for one day and set up camp there. We went for a little hike onto this little island out cropping thingy and taylor said the words "wouldnt it be funny if there were waves on the other side of this island" hmmm ya taylor it would be. as we rounded the tip, lo and behold there were waves, classic. The quick hustle to get the there was very quick to be short and we got some fun waves. The search for a place to sleep that night was endless. finally we found one after almost getting the van stuck in mud, which i had to push out, which ended up in me landing face first in it from pushing to hard and the van got loose. good thing it was raining...yesterday we woke up and decided to make the trip to gisborne from the bay of plenty. More problems, i drove the van for three hours in overdrive and we kept comenting on the weird noise it was makeing, and we almost ran out of gas half way but despite it all we made it and got some waves. We didn't wanna show up and distract wiley from his work so we tried to be super secret about being at wainui (the house he's at is on the beach there) plus he's sick and cant surf. An hour and a half into our session some kid rode down onto the beach on a bike and saw me get barreled and started yelling and waving his hands. I paddled back out to taylor and said hey doesn't that look like wiley? after some deliberation we decided it was and went in. We were all stoked and I think he was over joyed to be reunited with friends and family. he suddenly seemed healthy and well again. We got invited to dinner that night by his woofing family and feasted. A goooood night for sure. Wiley says hi to all and so do we. The Skateboarding pics are from N P when there weren't waves and the others are from the woof house and our feast! more on the way...