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Across the ditch<br />
JAPOW<br />
2023<br />
words: jase john<br />
With the weather forecast<br />
becoming ever more<br />
-<br />
threatening in Te Ika-a-MAui<br />
(North Island), the nervousness<br />
of a successful and timely<br />
Auckland exit to the ‘Land of<br />
the Rising Sun’, WAs looking<br />
more and more sketchy.<br />
With the stories of vehicles, then houses, then people<br />
washing away with the unprecedented rainfall across northern<br />
Aotearoa, the delays in departure and the fact we had been<br />
waiting over two years to rekindle our relationship with yuki in<br />
Nippon, soon paled into insignificance. The only positive from<br />
this natural disaster, was the anticipation of what impact these<br />
La Nina weather patterns might have on our quest for that<br />
bottomless Japan powder – if, or when, we did get there.<br />
With the initial delays to our 2023 NZSHRED Japow Tour being<br />
constantly brought into perspective as the internet delivered<br />
us image after shocking image of this destruction, our 787<br />
finally winged its way across the Pacific and closer to Narita<br />
airport. Our attention soon swung to the formalities of entering<br />
<strong>SB</strong> / #55 / 40
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