Sunday, August 13, 2006

Breaks Co-Op, Fruitstock August 06 NZ band based in London, Breaks Co-Op, play "Otherside" at the free festival Fruitstock in Regnets Park, London.

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Just me and 70 of my closest friends ...

Gotta love surfing for getting away from all the people and crowds and getting back to just you and nature ... Chaos at Croyde and Saunton at 7am last Saturday.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Summer Days

In typical English fashion, because the weather has become nice and hot, ie something different to what they are used to, the Government have labelled it a heatwave and issued all sorts of really uselfull warnings, like drink water. Lucky they told us. Forecast for Bristol for next 2 days:

Sennen Cove - Lands End, Cornwall

These are some photos I took from a weekend down to Sennen Cove which is the most southern beach in England, just before Lands End. Scored pumping surf all weekend in the clearest water ive ever surfed in ... anywhere! Was also able to shed a few layers of rubber as the water temps now a respectable 16-17'c - this is about the the average for NZ early winter but over here it means time to surf in boardies. Got picked up by the crew at 3:30am, in the water by 7am, out of the water 10pm. Perfect Day. Sat morning, took this photo after I had come from my first surf, was a lot bigger and glassier ealrier on as the tide had turned when I took this photo which make a huge difference. Still goin off though. At low tide this left hander strated working, peeling right into the rocks.

This is a photo from a webcam, gives a good idea of how clear the water is. Something about the geology of the area leading to very low levels of sediment in the water.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Fat Freddys Drop - Brixton Academy, London June 06

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0lohIZFKvw

Ireland trip - May 2006

Irish Countryside

Cliffs of Mower (famous landmark)

Easkey Lefts, one of Eires best waves, average conditions but still fun:
Bundoran:
The Peak at Bundoran:

Thursday, June 01, 2006

West End, London

Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre, West End. 70's themed party on a boat cruise on the River Thames Stringa's set Tower Bridge from the boat British Muesum The Rosetta Stone - used to decipher ancient egyptian heiroglyphics

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Rest Bay Wales - May 06

The Datsuns in Bristol

New Zealand band "The Datsuns" are on tour in the UK, managed to check them out in Bristol, all class, not bad or a band from the Waikato (Cambridge).

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Wales - Easter '06

Road trip around the south coast of Wales over Easter. Castle overlooking Freshwater East beach, Pembrokeshire: Camping in Fishguard Bay, Pembrokeshire Mumbles, Swansea. Stayed 1 night in some converted traditional stables on a farm overlooking Swansea Bay.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Snowboarding in Le French Alps

Snowboarding trip to the Portes Du Soleis in the French Alps, March 2006. Porteis du Soleil is a huge network of French and Swiss ski-fields in the French Alps all linked by about 250 chair-lifts. We stayed in the village of Morzine where we snowboarded Le Pleney, LesGets and Avoriaz in the week we had there... Flying into Geneva, Switzerland Morzine village, France. Panaramic view from the deck of where we stayed in Morzine The back-stairs. We could snowboard from the back step to the first chair-lift. The Le Pleney chair-lift from Morzine village. One of the runs in Le Pleney, Morzine in background Me at Le Pleney Sunchairs top of Le PLeney Le Get ski-field

La Gets off-piste Avoriaz, Morzine is down in the valley in the background Snowing in Avoriaz village Avoriaz ski-field, 2300m at the top Avoriaz Half-pipe