Six years ago, the pair from Angourie threw their life savings on a 99-year lease on an acre of land there. The same place you see in the background of those lineup shots of Restaurants.įorty minutes by speed boat from the mainland, same to Cloudbreak. “There were two or three excavators in the water, smashing through the reef and digging it out to create a massive channel. There was hydraulic fluid spilling into the water… it was shocking."Ī couple of years back, BeachGrit reported on the legendary stoush between a couple of surfers from Angourie and a monied Chinese developer, and all centred on the Fijian island of Malolo in the Mamanuca chain. I always figured mid-sixties was going to be the cut-off date for my career of throwaway airs and three-stage cutbacks.
Pickering, who didn’t get into surfing until he was into his fifties, says, yeah, it’s wonderful he’s surfing but admits, “It’s getting near the end of my surfing life I can tell you.” The hardest part was getting across those rocks and then getting back when you’re exhausted. I was getting some pathetic ones, but I got the rides that’s the main thing.
“It was a beautiful heat and I was out with four other very talented surfers and they were getting some amazing rides. To accommodate older surfers, those aged seventy-five to seventy-nine, there exists the division, “Immortals”.īut, now, Adrian Pickering, who has surfed in the contest for twenty-four years, has grown out of the division and into his own specially created age-group, eighty-to-one hundred, called “Improbables”. The Fisher and Paykel Easter Masters’ Surfing Championships has been a fixture of Taranaki, a pretty little stretch of towns built around a volcano on the west coast of New Zealand’s north island, for the past three decades. The organisers of a surfing contest in New Zealand have been forced to add a new age-group after an eighty-year-old kneeboarder signed up for this year’s event. Eighty is the new thirty one hundred the new forty etc.
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