I drove back home to Gisborne from Chch almost three weeks ago, it was a 20 hour straight mission, to keep me awake I was doin’ the dew like a fat kid does cake. I also nailed about three pies on that stint, that last one was such a battle to eat… I’m pretty over them for a while… So anyway, I got back on a Friday morning at around 8am, and had the Corona surf comp on the Saturday, so didn’t exactly have the ideal build up! The surf for the comp was really quite bad for the early heats like mine, gutless 3 ft Makorori, I’ve got no excuses really, but had a few mediocre waves and got knocked out. After that I gave a few Mountain Dews to the competitors and spectators then I went and took out my frustrations on Wainui beach. It was all time. 3 foot grunty waves, the odd barrel and smashable sections. I had such a good surf… if only that heat was out there!! I hope to make it to at least one more comp over summer.

I’m working in Giz for summer for Works Infrastructure, helping manage a huge roading project and amped to be finally applying some of my engineering knowledge I’ve learnt from uni! I’ve been thrown in the deep end a bit with quite a bit of responsibility, but really enjoying the challenge. There’s been some random shit go down, for example, today alone we had a dumbarse truck driver take out a power line and I had live wires flying at me, then we had some drunk driver almost take out our traffic controller (thata??s the sophisticated name for a stop/go man), right as a cop was going past. This car was such a heap, and worst of all this dude had his kids in his car. What a clown! Slightly more amusing are the odd rough carload hot-boxing out their car as they drive past. Ahhh… the joys of working on the east coast….

So the plan for summer is work hard to save $ for uni, surf hard, and a bit of partying it up with mates. Rhythm and Vines should be pretty huge too!

Heres a coupl’a pics. the surf ones were from out on the peninsula in chch just before I went home, stoked as with the shot of my turn…

Cheers,

Robbie

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