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Quikrippabong have a lot to answer for. Winter in the waves is a good time, no crowds, just the locals usually, stiff offshores pluming rooster tails to the shore, fish, many fish and long period swells stretching to the horizon in corduroy lines...(thanks Big Wednesday) and the latest wetsuit from China...
Mexico has Puerto Escondido and Baja, see wannasurf.com. Love that Mexican blood. As for surf movies...Peralta's Riding Giants is pretty cool. Still, surfing sub 45 degrees latitude is the last frontier, if like me, for you, two is a crowd. -
I'd estimate that they travel in the order of a kilometre. You see them paddling back for ages.
Excellent observation, I must warn you though, people have been __disappeared__for revealing that length of ride...personally I'm so jealous (Muriwai is a short wave at best and a hard paddle out most days). There is a break down there called Bluecliffs (a right hand point break) that I nearly surfed (it was flat!), and that isn't good enough, perhaps i may have to revisit.
There's a saying...Easy out (the paddle out the back), hard in (to shore). Easy in, hard out.
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Your star is on the ascendant, this will draw intense fire and scrutiny, reward the poppy clippers with a dignified silence, unless of course blatant lies must be redressed.
As for the icky iwi ad man, his 15 minutes is long gone and never really was. -
Apparently HBDHB couldn't RTFM because there is no Manual...creating one for Governance and other tricky procedures (like, conflicts of interest) is in the recommendations from the Report.
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Apparently due to a warmer current that flows through Foveau and other macro-climatic conditions on land, parts of Southland are warmer than the greater area norm.
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Apparently justice costs more for some than others,
Former Hawke's Bay DHB chairman Kevin Atkinson expects to ask questions over whether Hausmann and his legal team had preferential access to the panel over himself and other former board members. But Atkinson notes that their hands are tied to some extent as they are no longer allowed access to the files held at the board's legal office since Cunliffe sacked the board. Any resultant legal action would have to be funded from board members' own pockets.
From Fran's herald piece, what a world lies in those few sentences.
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Sofie, yup, Jaws is a tow-in wave ( and totally terrifying)...paddling in has it's own set of challenges. Down below 45 degrees latitude it's a whole new frontier. Slack water between shore and the reef with GW's hungry from their trip over from Tasmania, 3 tonne rottweilers in the form of Sea Lions, it is cold, you cannot feel your feet, there is no-one around and the surges of fear pulse stronger as you try to suppress all thought and concentrate on your thumping ice cream head ache...mostly it's the alone time that gets to you and waves that have tramped unhindered from the Southern Ocean in long period swells with the one's that pass us by going all the way to Hawaii.
Only outer island, outer reef Fiji compares, except there at least it's warm and you have the company of a boatman.
http://www.oneillsa.com/Events/Raw-Courage-Awards/Rules-&-Guidelines.asp -
And King Of The Hill...
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2 words, Family Guy.
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Surfed it, it's more scary than Hawaii.