October 2018 - New Zealand Surf Journal

Five Minutes With: Surf Photography Master Ted Grambeau

Derek MorrisonOct 31, 2018February 8, 20190

When I first picked up a camera and started pointing it at the ocean nearly 24 years ago, there was one photographer’s work that dazzled me, inspired me and daunted me. Australia’s Ted Grambeau was one of the absolute masters of capturing surfing in the best light. And his intrepid...

Surf Lakes Reveal “5 Wave” Technology In Queensland Mountains

Derek MorrisonOct 28, 2018February 8, 20190

Think Queensland is all about the Gold Coast’s right-hand points and punchy beaches firing to life? Well if Surf Lakes International has its way then your next surf trip there may just include a trip to the Queensland mountains to surf the recently prototype tested 5 Waves technology. Good enough...

New Zealand Junior Surfing Team Primed for World Champs

Derek MorrisonOct 23, 2018November 8, 20180

The twelve-strong New Zealand Junior Surfing Team heads off to the United States next week to compete at the 2018 VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship. Held at Huntington Beach, California, the New Zealand team is fresh out of the National Scholastic Surfing Championships event where nine surfers competed. Three of...

Unruly Caverns: Chasing Slabs In The Deepest South

Derek MorrisonOct 15, 2018March 1, 20190

A late-season swell offers one last roll of the dice for New Zealand’s big-wave riders and the stakes are high. As the winds swing through the ideal bearing the focus falls on a reef on a remote corner of coastline. Four teams of surfers get the session of a lifetime....

Vege Power: How One Surfer Owned His Wave-Miles Guilt

Derek MorrisonOct 15, 2018October 15, 20180

It’s 10:30am on a Tuesday and Matt Jenks is pulling up outside Japanese restaurant Jitsu in lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, parking his bike and heading inside with a 20-litre container to drain the kitchen of its used vegetable oil. It’s a 10-minute side-trip on his way to work at Dunedin...

After The Quake: Hope Springs In Kaikoura

Derek MorrisonOct 12, 20180

In a sheltered bay off the end of the Kaikoura Peninsula columns of bubbles spill out of the sea floor like shimmering mercury and make their way to the surface. It’s a dazzling display, like a scene that belongs in Wonderland. This is Hope Springs, aptly named, and just one...

Chasing Storms With Doug Young and Ross Clarke-Jones

Derek MorrisonOct 10, 2018October 10, 20180

Bobbing around on a jet ski near a reef off the southernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island it dawned on me that I had been drawn here like a moth to a flame. Each passing set of waves grew in size and intensity and started to look more like...

Finding Gonad Man Living Large On Norfolk Island

Derek MorrisonOct 10, 2018October 10, 20180

What is it about island living that sets a pace of life that is two parts relaxation, two parts lifestyle and one part work? Norfolk Island is a little rock in the South Pacific with exactly these values. It impressed us with its character, abundance of waves and an actual...

The Life Of Kaya

Derek MorrisonOct 3, 2018July 25, 20240

There is no question that the Gold Coast of Australia has become the hotbed of surf talent in the Southern Hemisphere. It has such a concentration of talent that when one of its fabled sandy points break, no waves go unridden and the menu is barrels, airs and fully buried...