Summer loving happend so fast.....

Well the Coast has had it all this summer from the 3 biggest floods that its seen in awhile to it beeing as dry as a nuns c#%t. These flows have offered many different runs from big water Arahura and RGC to your stock standed coast runs.

For me January was a month of boating with no job to tie me down many styx trips and other walking were ticked off and off course the odd fly in. February has been a bit of a low as I have done my shoulder in "shagged the A.C" but nothing the odd roid injuction won"t fix. I have also have landed my self a job at Westland high school teaching year 12 and 13 kids to kayak so time is at at a loss but hay i am still kayaking and getting payed for it what more could you want.

check some shots out of whats been happing in this neck of the woods I think most of them are taken by Barny Young

Cheeking out R.G.C but she was a bit low to run

Barny Young climbing up the left hand side just shows

how steep this bad boy is.

Dlyan Thompson on postmans on the upper kakas

Keith Riley on the slide drop upper kakas

Myself getting it done

Keith Riley and Dylan Thopson fighting it

out on the upper kakas

Barny Young droping air mail

JJ shepherd doing what he does best

Cess pit at full tit

Don't swim on a BIG Arahura, Brandon gets it wrong

and yes that is a SLR and yes it is F$%ked.

This the only shot we got for the day shit was moving way to fast

Ben Bralow "nose up" was the call for the day

Myself on the Witcombe river

Eddie Murphy hitting a sweet boof

This was one of the 2 best boofs of the day. Come down

around the bend hit the kicker and set sail.

Zac shaw and Jordy Searle on the ever changing

landslide rapid.

B-rain showing how not to do it


I love this shot. Shannon Mast geting his boof on

Virgins all around

As all good kayak trips are plan over a beer or ten the night before some off the boys were keen to get some coast action before heading home for the summer holidays. So with a plan in hand and a bunch of Arahura virgins what more could you ask for. So after a bloody good hungi and a big night we set sail for a Sunday/Monday trip. Sunday we trotted on into the styx to brush off the cob webs as a few of us hadn’t been in a boat for a while. The flow was a little on the low side but hey it’s the styx. The call was made to dando for a 9.30 am pick up nerves’ were flying high for some of the boys as this was their first major heli trip. Being last to the put in and flying above the boys I could see that they were keen to go and drop some shit so were proceeded on down for a great day out. Chur boys

Aaron droping the last drop of billiards



myself on billiards

Joshy hitting Billiards

myself on curtain call

Joshy on the first drop of the day, Aaron watching hows its done


Joshy fired this bad boy first and after making it look easy i gave it a go

The Crooked

With the feel of spring in the air and the boys inching to do some paddling Jamie butters and my self headed to the coast for a couple of days first on the list was the crooked. The crooked in the passed hasn’t had the best rep with CPIT students but hey that’s a whole different story. The walk! Well if you haven’t been in there it probably one of the best walk-ins, (HA year rite) you should do it. Knee high mud and steep banks to craw up provided some of the days best entertainment. Water levels were a little low but all in all a grate day.

From here we headed to hoki and meet up with the 2^nd year boys to hit up the styx.

Sorry for lack of action shots but here are some pictures of the crooked

jamie chilln 10min into the walk

jamie getting it done

jamie and but but laping up the rays

oooooooooo year

yep thats a whole heap of mud

Mountain Days

I think I may have had one of the best week snowboarding. First it started at mount Lyford where the days menu was powder with a dump of around 50cm the night before how could we resist. Getting up the mount with Scotty’s old lady’s truck with road tires on was a piece of piss and with the thought of staying the night in Hamner that night and a dip in the hot pools we just new she was going to be a ripper. As first thought the day did turn out to be one of the better ones I have had I think this was because of the hottest lifty i have ever seen. You know those chicks you see up the mount that look hot but you don’t know if they are hot, the boys know what i mean. Well she was hot, a great tan and oooo boy as for the body holey s%#t .Scotty summed her up in words of Alf Stewart “flaming crows, she’s a cracker”. The day was then topped off with a few ales or five and a cheeky dip in the hot pools.

Porters was the next steep on Friday and then again on Monday. Porters again offered some more grate riding i hadn’t been to porters for quite some time so a newish field and grate snow what more could you ask for, well I suppose a hot lifty would have topped it off but hey beggars can’t be choosers . On Friday it had been a skied out a bit but with a dump on Sunday night allowed for some good riding on the Monday.

The Wanganui

The UCC had planned a trip into the lower Wanganui river with 16 or so beginner kayakers so with cheaper flights on offer how could I decline. A crew consisting of myself Jordan Chris and Simon went into the upper part. Water levels were low but still a good day out. Here are some pictures to check out there isn’t many as it was too cold