ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME IN NEW ZEALAND
Words Carl Tomlinson // Photos by Jane.
This year, after a number of trips to South Africa during the winter we decided to go further afield…well you don’t get much further away than New Zealand. Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with Cape Town and it has plenty of things to recommend it, but when you’ve been regularly for a number of years you can lose sight that the windsurfing world is much bigger than an annual trip there every winter. We’d always said we’d love to go back to New Zealand, our last time there was for two months in 2000, so it was time to go back and rediscover what captivated us all that time ago, certainly I had memories of uncrowded waves and friendly locals that were tugging on my “bucket list”. Jane too,was keen to go as there is a lot for a non-windsurfer to do. So, as we both can get a little bit of additional leave over the Xmas time, we booked 4 weeks off, flights and a campervan.