Saturday June 30th Pt I

Its been windy and onshore for ages. This is no good for surfing unless you take a 6 hour drive North. Coincidentally I met someone who was in Raglan having done that. Luke (of the fine Pizza place in Kuotunu that I've mentioned before) was in town having just been up there. I ran into him by chance as he was chatting with Jimmy. Jimmy, who had been house-sitting for us, had run into him by chance too. Jimmy's car had broken down outside his pizza place about a month ago and it seemed an odd coincidence for us all to run into each other having not met for a long while.

Anyway, I didn't have to go too green at his tall tales because the wind stopped blowing and there was surf in Raglan. So after a moon about town with the new toy off I went for a surf:

Sunrise over the points

And back up the West coast (looking North)

A jetty at Raglan Wharf

Raglan's fishing fleet

Raglan Castle..

Timo surfing. This is where and what I'd been doing 10 minutes earlier

Another surfer

1st day of usable surf in ages and it was a weekend so it was bound to busy

A good day for fishermen too

Alex who is my friend and has a hot tub. The two are not related, in the same way as Dougal's comment that 'it was cold' was not related to me relieving myself post-surf

After a great surf with Alex, Dougal, Timo and a few others I went and warmed up in Alex's hot tub. Wow! This isn't what I expect from winter in New Zealand. Poorly insulated, single-glazed draughty home. Shall we do something about it? Nah! Let's put a hot tub on the deck and take our minds off it...

Anyway, after a good morning's surf, the afternoon was a mission to find the stoat trapping girls up Karioi:

Part II of Saturday: Off up Karioi

To be continued..