I did a trip up to Waihi beach over the "long weekend", leaving Wed. My car blew a head gasket just north of Taihape, and we ended up getting a rental and towing my trailer the rest of the way, which meant we arrived early the next day. I did two trips up the coast, and the third day was spent playing in the surf.

Now I need to work out the most cost effective way to get my car back home, and sell it.

Here's the GPS tracks and a few photos from the trip.

Thursday, coastal paddle and rock gardening. https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqN1DG9zG6

Friday, coastal paddle, rock gardening and a walk up a stream. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq

Saturday morning, surf practice. https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYxAoEq

Sunday afternoon, surf practice and comp. comp https://www.relive.cc/view/vYvE2mAWBGO

It's been a great weekend, and I plan to be back next time.

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 6 months ago

Waihi Beach is a great little place. I used to live there.

[–] Dave 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sucks about the car but it looks like you had a good trip!

When you say "rock gardening", you're talking about riding waves over rocks like this?

And for "surf practice and comp", is this a competition? And you're not meaning surf as in surf board, but still in kayaks?

Edit: Oh and one last question, what's the photo at 0:31 in this one? https://www.relive.cc/view/v26MjYPpVEq

[–] thevoyagekayaking 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the more extreme end of the spectrum, we were paddling in much calmer conditions. Mostly just noseying around the rocks. And yes, we were surfing in sea kayaks, it's a slightly different game to board surfing as we're catching waves much further out than the other surfers, and ideally peeling off before they actually curl over and break. We had a competition, which I actually came third in.

I think that's the inside of my pocket, I didn't notice that photo was in there.

[–] Dave 3 points 6 months ago

Congrats on third place! That's so cool, sounds like a lot of fun!

I think that’s the inside of my pocket, I didn’t notice that photo was in there.

Haha, it looks a lot like a photo taken pointing down into the water!

[–] liv 2 points 6 months ago

That looks like fun!

That website your using is so cool.