BEYOND THE BAR

Mid-January this year, there’s a lot of chatter as Cyclone Tino is forecast to head down from Fiji and pass east of New Zealand heading south, generating some very welcome and potentially huge swell on the east coast here after a relatively dry spell.

On January 20th I get a message that everyone’s heading south to Whangamata, just south of the Coromandel Peninsula, for a couple of days. So I pack my camera gear and make the two and a half hour drive down from Auckland after work. I arrive