Around The World In 80 Waves

I had the opportunity to add wave 10 to my collection at both Honoli’i and Pohoika Beach Parks, but after such an epic start to the day I am no hurry to get in the water today and end up passing on both opportunities. Maybe seeing the attached was an omen that put me off. It certainly made me chuckle and I can’t imagine too many funeral directors can claim to be witty because it is such a sombre business. (Aparantly it is just the family name and no pun is intended.)

The former break was passed up due to a whole tree doing laps of the break around the peak, on which I see two blokes nearly impale themselves. The guy in the picture has just clattered in to it.

I meet an old friend for lunch. I first met Petra on a beach called La Torche in Brittany in 1996, and I’m delighted by the home cooked soup I am treated to when we catch up. She shows me round the beautiful guest house business she has developed since then. Another stunning place for people to stay which I can wholeheartedly recommend. (www.bnb-aloha.com)

Petra recommends Pohoika Beach Park to me but I swerve that too because the break was so busy due to it being the weekend and the start of Christmas holidays.

I decide to go in search of volcano activity instead.