one of the great things on travels is that things always come up heaps different like you planned.
WA was really good to us regarding the swell although the Ash-Cloud made it difficult for us to leave Perth when we were supposed to. This way I just had a really short stay in VIC and straight off to NZ, where we teamed up with my best mate Raffi, who did the trip from Germany´s awesome summer to southern hemisphere winter just to get good surf and see the country everyone talks about since Lord of the Rings. Well, so we thought, and wanted to make this a 15 day surf trip throughout the whole North Island, or at least the usual West Coast Spots and maybe Gisborne, Mahia and those places to see the East as well. We went along the West for a bit, surfed a few waves along the coast and then were stuck in a town with the most mechanical Lefts for 10 days cause it was cranking nonstop. This way we didn´t see much of the country nor did we cover much distance on the roads but we well and truly did our miles on the long lefts. A big hooray to Mickey there and the local crew of WBB, for an awesome Welcome, sharing waves, jetski and an after-surf heated Spa with us, good Karma is your way. It was a great trip, and I think this has to be one of the most consistent 10 days I ever had in surfing, just clean nice groundswells everyday with some of the best point setups there is. Actually just got to Fiji, which is around 20 degrees warmer, so we´ll see what that brings... Good swell our way and a couple more weeks on the road, Life is awesome indeed...
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