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Why we live in Wellington
Posted by Rod in Interesting at 8:37 pm on Wednesday, 4 July 2007

With kids, windsurfing has taken a back seat for the past couple of years. This shot of Troy (aged 40) at Plimmy shows the reason that many of us have lived in Wellington for the past many years and gets me excited about October. Just a great shot.

Troy Purcell (now 40), table top at Plimmerton
Troy Purcell, Plimmerton, Wellington, New Zealand

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Comments(9)

    Comment by Ben Kepes at 10:51 pm on 4 July 2007

    jealous jealous - my brother used to live in Airlie Road and I paddled out to Mana a couple of times with him

    Did I mention that I miss Wellington - god I sound like a Don McGlashen song…..




    Comment by Anton at 8:55 am on 5 July 2007

    Ah, I know the feeling. Having a little nipper around has put a dent in the time I’m able to spend out there too.




    Comment by ZiglioNZ at 9:26 am on 5 July 2007

    Airlie rd is pictoresque, we often take it.
    I’ll vote for the next America’s cup to be held in Paremata!




    Comment by David Preece at 10:08 am on 5 July 2007

    Note also Tony Rule (http://darule.blogspot.com/) of Spikefin heritage is a windsurfing nut, although he’s more racing than tricks. Because I sail rather than Windsurf I don’t get cool pictures :)




    Comment by Tim Norton at 10:28 am on 5 July 2007

    Awesome indeed, Got to get me some of that, I’ve only ever windsurfed up in quiet thai islands, its time to take a beating and learn for real in the home of wind. This is the way to look at winter.




    Comment by Bruce Hoult at 12:42 pm on 5 July 2007

    Wellington also offers surfing on a quite different kind of wave:

    http://hoult.org/bruce/gliding/sasha/sasha-Pages/Image17.html

    Note the leading edge of the lenticular cloud stretching past Titahi Bay and on to Makara and Cape Terawhiti in the distance. That’s wave.

    Or for more action, around Wellington (Paraparaumu and Masterton) and Omarama see:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ2cTN2tqzE

    Or a quiet and peaceful beach scene at Paekakariki:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvLme0PJYg




    Comment by Julius at 2:41 pm on 5 July 2007

    Beautiful. In a similar situation to Anton.




    Comment by Bruce S at 2:48 pm on 5 July 2007

    Plimmerton (sigh), well my kid is now grown up so I should start going back to Plimmy. But don’t forget that there are other places where you can windsurf from the doorstep in Wellington too (ie Eastbourne) - some of these shots are Eastbourne, the rest are Taranaki.
    http://windsurfingnz.org/node/1548




    Comment by John at 5:59 pm on 5 July 2007

    Aged 40, in itallics no less!!! I don’t intend to reach my windsurfing peak until well past that age. A little respect for those of us born in ‘67 or earlier!