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Poll: Last year, it was revealed that Te Rarawa will seek title for Shipwreck Bay. As a surfer are you concerned about future access to surfing breaks with the change of ownership?


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Comment Share Posted on Friday March 12th 2010 at 1:38 p.m.

Voting has opened for our Summer Surf Search 2010 competition! The entries...

#9 Keeping It Local

Posted on Thursday March 4th at 2:52 p.m.

To see those waves crashing on the beach made me understand how Harold and Kumar must have felt when they finally made it to White Castle...

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#8 Nothing But a "plane" Old Surf Trip

Posted on Thursday March 4th at 2:25 p.m.

The Rewi and Tomo story. As always, good trips are planned around over a couple of beverages and in this case it was a couple of infamous berry ciders down at Nelsons local Sprig & Fern Tavern with....

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#7 The Magnet Circus

Posted on Thursday March 4th at 2:02 p.m.

If you surf in Christchurch you get used to surfing some marginal short period wind chop and most of the time it’s onshore slop...

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#6 Burn Out

Posted on Thursday February 25th at 6:00 a.m.

Sometimes you burn out....... and sometimes you get it magic...

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#5 Afternoon Road Trip

Posted on Wednesday February 17th at 6:00 a.m.

Weeks had passed since my last session. The last few days had been like pulling teeth as I waited for the epic south swell to arrive. I had spent the morning getting all the jobs done...

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#4 Reconnect

Posted on Monday February 15th at 11:10 a.m.

As life moves on things change and what was once important seems to drift away into memories. Surfing, such as big part of my life for so many years is one such thing that was put on the backburner...

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#3 Shortcomings

Posted on Friday February 12th at 2:46 p.m.

Actual road trip... the last since the birth of my 5 month old Daisy...

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#2 Living The Dream

Posted on Tuesday January 19th at 3:04 p.m.

When a surfer stretches out their back when looking out to a Hawaiian sunrise before picking up their board to jog into the blue Hawaiian surf the only thing that runs through your mind is, "Living the dream"...

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#1 The Best Road Trip Ever

Posted on Thursday December 17th at 2:05 p.m.

It was summer, sometime late '70s. I was a non surfing grom, but this roadie changed my whole life...

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The one with the most votes takes home....

• A custom shaped surfboard from Pete Anderson!
• $300 AMAZON voucher,
• a pair of his and her SPY optic sunnies,
• an Export Gold prize pack
• a NIXON watch,
• $300 worth of QUIKSILVER boardies and apparel,
• a BODYLINE wetsuit to fit and
• over $200 worth of REEF jandals and apparel.