Smorgasboarder_11_May-2012

PHOTOS: BEN VOS
When we eventually escaped the floods we went back to
Roger’s, returned his boards and made a start southward
along the coast towards Auckland.
It was later that afternoon we stumbled upon Langs Beach -
a beautiful tree lined bay just south of where we had surfed
a couple of days before at Waipu Cove. Langs had a number
of fun looking beachies peaking left and right. They were a
bit on the fullish side but that just provided plenty of time
and space to carve them up. There was just one problem,
whilst we sat there salivating in the motorhome, and started
contemplating kitting up to get wet, we realised we didn’t
have any bloody boards.
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Was the decision to not bring our own boards a flawed one?
It was only day three and we were going to miss a surf.
Thankfully, it was the last time we would go without due to
our decision to go completely Kiwi. But that said, the missed
surf at Langs still burns.
Sullen and sulky we drove on to where we stayed the
night at the quirky Sandspit Holiday Park. A little later we
drowned our sorrows at a nearby Olde English pub called
the Salty Dog Inn. While we didn’t quite end up swaying
back and forth with one eye closed singing sea shanties, we
did enjoy a couple of fine ales, an awesome meal and then it
was time to call it a day.
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