Welcome to the Urban Scrawl photoblog. This page displays the first few lines of the more recent photoblog entries. Use the sidebar navigation to view other photoblog entries by title, or you can view recent comments and syndication links [under reconstruction]. Commenting is available on all entries, so feel free to jump in. The digital camera pictured on the left is the Canon Powershot SX10IS, which is the camera I now use. Photos from Gisborne and Goat Island Bay were taken many years earlier on a very old SLR camera with a 300mm screw-mount lens and doubler.

Gisborne, New Zealand
I spent a year or so living and surfing here while working for Hot Buttered surfboards in Auckland in the late 1980's. I had countless epic sessions surfing Gizzy...

Goat Island Bay
This is an account of an epic session way back in 1988 when Cyclone Bola came ripping through New Zealand. The entire east coast was completely maxed out...

Las Vegas 2005
This is the account of our trip to Las Vegas during Christmas / New Year 2005. We flew to Vegas on the Friday morning before Christmas Day to stay at the MGM...