Raglan

The next morning, we breakfasted up ourselves and headed to Raglan. A small, remote (not in summer) surfing village so Jimbob could get his surf on! I decided not to surf. After a ghastly and terrifying surfing experience at a Water Adventure Summer camp in Connaught some years ago,(summer in Connaught – are ye off yer head or what?) I really had no desire to try surfing again. The constant bashing of my head off the board as well as the sea dragging me fifty metres down the beach kinda put me off. So we settled into our room and Jim booked his surfing lesson with the Raglan Surfing School, for the following day. For the rest of the day we just mosied about and had a champion dinner of fish and chips with 2 cokes all for under 10 nzdollars (BETWEEN US) WOW. (It did however cost us another 4 dollars when we absolutely insisted on running to the supermarket to buy some HP sauce).

The next morning, we made our own muesli/fruit breakfast and just lolled around in the sun. Jim was taken off with a few others in the Surfing School van. I decided I would rent a bike and cycle the 6k to the beach and take a few embarrassing pics of Jimbob in his swimsuit. (aka wetsuit). So the cycle was a tad tough for a gal with only one pedal on her bicycle – especially the uphill parts. It was sweatingly funny, howanever I got there just in time to see Jimbob put his wetsuit on backwards. lol tee hee

Then all the hot men in wetsuits took to the beach to perform some onland acrobatics on their surfboards. I took some pictures and laughed my head off. Then they took to the water and it was quite a challenge to get some pictures of them standing up on the boards as the total time any guy got to stay up on the surfboard was about 1.35 seconds. So me and my camera had our work cut out for us. He he. So after a few shots I hopped on the bike (aka walked it up the hill) and one footed it back to base whereupon I awaited my surfing hero Jim’s arrival home. He was chuffed – he had a great time and really enjoyed the surfing. We went out for a stroll in the town (That took all of 2 minutes to explore) and settled for a fish n chip supper amounting to ten NZ Dollars. Woohoo.