new surf dialogue

After camping out at the tippy top of the North Island, Christine and I finally got in touch with a WWOOF host that had could use a couple of extra hands. For the last few days, we have been staying with Leigh, Donna and Victor at the home tucked into the hills outside of Ahipara. I knew that when we were gifted with a whole Kawahai fresh outta the water just north of Kataia, that something good would come of it, and that evening we were at our new WWOOF stay, carving up the several pound marine fish into sashimi, marinating chunks into ceviche, and smoking a portion of it with Manuka wood, brown sugar and honey.

 The surf has been flat, but looks to change anyday now. In the mean time, we have been clearing bush for a small passionfruit orchard, collecting seaweed off the beach as a fertilizer for their garden, plastering up a earth/cement wall, climbing moutains out the back yard and chatting the evenings away around the outdoor fireplace/pizza oven. Christine has made a “go fish” maniac out of young Victor (Donna and Leigh’s five year old). All we need now is for the reef points of Ahipara to start firing. Not a lot of time left here in New Zealand for us. What a concept that is…