Well our surf guide to New Zealand says that New Zealand is a very safe place, no dangerous animals or snakes and shark attacks are VERY rare. So i took this to be good news, and after having learnt to not warm up my wetsuit in australias sharky waters i celebrated by having 7 wees in 1 hour on our first surf at Raglan, which incidently was empty as it mid week and not "going off". So i was a little shocked when the day after we leave Raglan a 10 year old boy get...

Well after leaving our tour guides of the Big O and lisa we were back on our own and after a bus ride back to Auckland picked up our rock van...."Rolling Stoned" (check pics!) Jagger would love it! With enough space to fit all our bags in we werent having to strap my pants to the roof anymore as before in the car! As we were on our own the agenda was...waves waves waves! The charts looked ok for Raglan so we weaved our way through the green hills to the...

Baaaaaaaa... here we are on the north island of New Zealand. After a random meeting with Owain and Lisa (Aarons brother and fiancee) at Melbourne airport, we had a short flight over to the land of the Kiwis. The next 6 days were to entail much eating, sight seeing and catching up. First stop was the Bay of Islands, around a 5 hour drive on winding cornish style roads in the bad weather.. we could have almost been at home with the green hills and farm smells (aa...