Around The World In 80 Waves

The North Shore is mobbed for the competition and also because it is the weekend so I can’t get a room for one night. I decide to sleep in the car and find a super sneaky spot to hide me and the car behind a cargo container in the car park of a church. It works a little too well and when I wake up and am desperate for the loo I have been locked in the car park! I have to rally drive over the grass verge to get out and am sure I’m going to hell, but the call of nature is strong. Without incident I get to Ehukai Beach Park where I know there are toilets and later chat to one of the security team who are guarding all the TV equipment, houses, etc associated with the competition. He is a massive local named Moses and I find out he is a year and a half out of jail for rolling a police car that he stole ten years ago, but appears to be sorting himself out. It is still only 5am and still dark and his buddies have failed to turn up so he has been out all night on his own. If I am willing to watch over the site for twenty minutes he will make me a coffee, which seems like a fair swap and I am left in charge for a while which was quite amusing. It was a lovely brew.