world body surf

[lauralh]

Just watched Endless Summer, the classic surf movie. I don't really care about surfing - most of what I know I learned from Beach Boys lyrics and Fast Times At Ridgemont High - but I know how to skateboard and I can appreciate how fucking hard it seems to surf. Anyway these two guys go to East Africa, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in search of perfect waves, and it's all very entertaining thanks to the narrator and scenery. Oh, and Tahiti. I am dying to go to New Zealand, as every time I see it in a movie it is invariably gorgeous. But I also want to go to some beach somewhere in the world where it's gorgeous and blue and green and there's almost no people. That's my idea of heaven. (Seattle beaches are not very pleasant but there are few people, which I enjoy.)

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Yes, come to New Zealand

[ewen]

You should definitely come to New Zealand. It is as beautiful as it looks in the movies. It's very easy to find gorgeous beaches with plenty of blue and green. It's quite easy to find nice beaches with not many people, and not hard to find completely empty nice beaches with a little travelling. (In fact you have to try pretty hard to find beaches that'd be considered "crowded" by overseas standards, and even then it's only a few days each year.)

New Zealand is only a short 12 hour flight from west coast of the US. You get on the plane, have dinner, watch a movie, go to sleep, and wake up in New Zealand. What could be easier.

Ewen

PS: Yes, I'm a New Zealander. But any rumours that I get a cut of the money tourists spend are completely false. Alas. Come anyway.

PPS: 12 hour flights aren't long, unless you do two of them in a row. 24 hours flying to Europe (from New Zealand), now that's long.

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Kailua Beach, Lanikai, Ohau. Pretty much any weekday. Totally deserted and picture-postard beautiful.

awesome

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

now all i need is a sugar daddy some money.