me
Stu
me
bird in tree
Makarori (sp?) point
A little too excited...
the point again
Zac's folded foot
my mush turn
Zac's better mush turn
Zac doing something
Zac doing something backside...surfing that is...
Stu in da pocket
Stu on the coping
Zac stylin'
Stu about to get shacked!
Ridiculous
Ridiculous again. Perfection
Going green.. wind farm inland.
Stu having a snooze on the drive
Mt. Taranaki
Our attempt at fishing
Balmy palmysWell we're back in Gisbourne. We drove from wavehaven to Napier in one day, stayed at a super cool hostel run by some friendly old guy, and drove up to Gis the next morning. We've been camping at the flying nun hostel. We have our tents set up in the yard, that way we pay way less, but still get to use the kitchen, showers, and wireless! The surf sucked monday and tuesday, so we got the great idea of going fishing... We bought hand casters for 5 bucks each, and tried our luck, but all we came home with was the horrible smelling bait. We cooked that for dinner anyway....... j/k! For Zac's birthday, we surfed really early in the morning at Wainui beach. The waves were perfect (see above..) and we all got awesome waves. We ended up going back out later, and Zac folded his foot trying to land an air. He says no worries, but we took him in today to get x-rayed.. No results yet, but in our professional opinion (us looking at the xrays), don't think anythings broken, just a sprain. I've been trying to force Ibuprofin down him, but he's not taking it. We stayed in and made pizza for Zac's birthday dinner. Unfortunately, we fell for the 2 for $5 deal and got pizza that tasted like the cardboard it sat on. Oh well. Today Stu and I surfed Makarori's while Zac shot photos of the place that made it seem a lot better than it felt to surf. Spent the rest of the day going from Kiwi doc to Kiwi doc trying to figure out the NZ health system. Turns out it's way cheap! $30 bucks for an x ray order, and free x-ray! Ridiculous!
Hope everyone's doing good in the states. Stay warm! Cheers!
Hope everyone's doing good in the states. Stay warm! Cheers!
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2 comments:
these photos are so gorgeous and all 3 of you look super agile surfing....like poetic ocean yogis- very cool! i am so glad you're having such an amazing time except i'm sorry about zac's foot. thank goodness for traveling in a country with socialized medicine thogh. i hope you can stay in gisborne for awhile and enjoy the flying nun so you can take a break from all that driving. have you met any girls?
love to you all, erin p.s. matty, thanks for doing this blog, it's great and you are a fabulous writer
the photo 6 up from the bottom is my dream wave...what could be better?
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