Friday, November 13, 2009

there's something fishy going on around here






After nearly a month on the south island, we've fled for the warmer weather and sunshine back on the north island. We left the perfect barrels of curio bay a day or two after the last post not because of lack of surf obviously but because we were all concerned about losing our feet to frostbite. After a week there we figured north to Duniden would be a great option. Once there, we surfed super crowded st. clair and were over it. Plus there were no barrels and it almost seemed colder! Our plans of being there for a week quickly dissipated and we began our journey to the legendary right pointbreaks of Kaikoura. (of course we celebrated the local holiday first though with tons of fireworks)... The ride to Kaikoura was long and arguous and was the first and only drive so far that we've taken two days on. On the drives we have a lot of time to talk seeing that we don't have a radio and no one likes my singing or the kazoo (thank you bobby). We cover a wide range of topics from dude your leg is touching me, I sat middle last time, the waves are gonna be SICK!!!! and my personal favorite, I cant wait to eat a burrito! Once we get on the subject of mexican food its like we all go into a trance and immediatly get along. We have each vowed to not eat at all once back in the states until we all have a huge double wrapped burrito from Corrales in our hands.. The only problem with talking about it is that it always ends up in a horribly dishearteining stop at a local market or gas station only to remember that we're in New Zealand and the nearest mexi food place is over 1000 miles away.....anyways, we made it to Kaikoura and much to our delight found sun and glassy water. The next two days weren't good for surf but we got some diving and reading in. Tuesday we scored hard though and found out why they say Kaikoura pumps. The right point picture is of an epic little wave we got and we took it right before session number 4 that day. Midway through the day we were at mangnamanu for a inbetweener session when i noticed taylor on the beach looking quite over it. He waved me in and when I got to shore i noticed a nice big gash on his forhead. On closer inspection, after deciding to go to the hospital for possible stitches, we found the cut to resemble exactly in every way, the scar on Harry Potter's head. Oh yes we now have a fully functional wizard with us on our trip. Four stitches, a day out of the water, and 2 liters of ice cream were the end result and wiley and i were back to the surf for sessions 4 and 5 of the day. Also, a quick side note, while taylor was in the hospital, Wiley and I went for a quick surf check aka super sick solo session at a right point. Not to say I believe in karma or anything but the evidences of taylors newfound magic was at hand. Wiley told taylor as we dropped him off that we weren't gonna surf(a lie of course). Midway through surfing, a bee (bewitched no doubt) flew 150 ft into the ocean, landed on Wiley's neck, and stung him with out being agrovated at all. He was pissed and asked me to get the stinger out at which request i flicked him in the neck 3 or 4 times and with each flick said "sorry dude!" and had no luck at getting it out. haha The next few day's wiley looked like a boofed fat kid. it was like our fat childhoods all over again. We stayed for a few more days hanging out with some friends we'd met but decided to head north with high hopes of being warm and getting work since we are all low on cash. One last thing of course, we booked our ferry ride on friday the 13th...Why does that sound like a bad decision? The day was sunny, warm, and perfect leading up to driving our van onto the ferry when all of a sudden...BAM a massive southernly storm front hit us and the crossing was delayed. I thought we were all gonna die and the crossing was horrible. I will never travel on that day again, but we did get to watch movies on the ride which was sweet and the movie was... 17 again! YAY! We're safe now and happy back in martinborough.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! You guys have been busy! Glad Taylor is a wizard now and Wiley didn't get strangeled by the bee! Moving tomorrow.....Yikes!

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  2. Those wave pic's should be on sufeline they're incredible.

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