Thursday 29 January, 2004 at 1:33AM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (9)

I've just been looking at some pics of my old local, Raglan (west coast, North Island, New Zealand) ..damn, I still get butterflies in my stomach whenever I see pics of Raglan going off (or any surf going off for that matter, but especially Raglan). This is a shot out across The Valley towards Indicators. I miss surfing this place a lot. Believe it or not, Raglan would pump like this on a regular basis, and this pic is only one of a series of points that the swell wraps around. The innermost is Manu Bay where many of the big-name international surf comps in NZ are held. Indies is the furthest out and in my opinion bigger, better and gnarlier than the rest.

This second pic is a recent shot of probably my most frequented spot for surfing over on the east coast of the North Island, Tairua. This was taken just before Christmas (thanks to Wilky at surf.co.nz for the pic), it brings back a lot of memories.

There's a few more pics of my own of NZ surf in the photos section if you want to take a look ..I should really scan and post some more of them there.