A quick flight to Gisborne this morning (Friday May 29) rewarded Australian surfers Joel Parkinson and Mark Occhilupo with a perfect finale to the Corona Surf Trips. The pair enjoyed solid 1.5m waves at Wainui Beach.

After a quick porwhiri performed by Campion College students Parko and Occy hit the water with local legends Bobby Hansen, Maz Quinn and Blair Stewart. A handful of other eager surfers paddled out to secure a superior vantage point from the hundreds lining the sand dunes.

Sunny skies, bubbles and smiles all round were the hallmarks of the opening of the ski season at Mt Hutt today (Saturday, May 30).

More than 2000 Cantabrians and visitors to the region turned out to welcome the snow and celebrate skiing in May at Mt Hutt.

The high country ski area opening was two weeks ahead of schedule as a result of early snow coverage.

Mountain Dew Game Fuel is back in the States for a limited time (sorry it’s not available in NZ though!).

They have two flavours ‘Citris Cheery’ and ‘Wild Fruit’ which have been inspired by the intensity and passion of the hit video game World of Warcraft. ‘Citrus Cherry’ represents the Horde, who have banded together to ensure their mutual survival against the suppression of the Alliance and ‘Wild Fruit’ flavor represents the Alliance, who fight to restore order to the war-torn world of Azeroth. To check out more click here . . .

It’s down to the final 6 this week as they battle it out for the title!! 1st prize is recording time, a tour around Wellington High Schools and of course some coinage!!
Here are the finalists:

All of last week the Goldy was smashed by the craziest storms, it wasn’t surfable for a while but it was exciting to watch!

This morning I had training about 400 metres South of my house. “Man” I didn’t realise the extent of the damage until today. Down my way we weren’t hit quite so bad but a few metres down from us there are many beautiful houses just teetering on the edge of the sandy cliffs. Where they once had nice lawns, trees with fences in front is now just a few metres to a 6 metre cliff to rocks and the waters edge. We had the combination of freak high tides and a big storm which produced destruction to the beautiful coast line. Yesterday morning while I was surfing out the front of my house I saw trucks carting tones of sand back and forth from down our end now I realise what for!

Cardrona Alpine Resort is gearing up for the 2009 ski season, with the best pre-season snow base levels in over a decade, 120cm on the upper mountain and 80cm in the base area.

“We’ve had some pretty extreme weather in May bringing heavy snow falls, the mountain is looking amazing, from top to bottom. It’s been great to get such a solid snow base but I know our operations team is grateful this week has brought some settled weather to continue with pre-season preparations,” said Nadia Ellis, sales and marketing manager.

On Friday 22nd of May we had the Underground Skate winter fashion show that was hosted at the shop on Bakehouse Lane Orewa hosted by yours truly…

A whole bunch of fun was had and sum seriously sweet outfits were paraded down the runway while our customers indulged in some complimentary wine and nibbles I think it would be fair to say a good night was had by all… will track down some photos and put them up soon….