Valentines Day

My Valentines Day was not spent spoiling my gorgous girlfriend as we are 1000's of miles apart! Instead what I got up to was the following:

Wake up early and klap a coffee:

Valentines Day Skype session with my Tash followed by a quick surf at the beach park next to Pipe:

Pipe has turned into a shallow rip bowl / sand bar

(Yes this is the Banzai)

Cruise back to the temporary home and get some fine cuisine in my stomach:

cooked by....

...your boetiiii (one guru cook!)

Head to the Pipeline Blessing(click) - this blessing was done by a local priest and what he had to say was very interesting and somewhat humbling!

inspiring

a true "Aloha" greeting

Exchange of breath

Blessing us all with Pipe sea water and Kuai salt

Get to see the heat draws and find out I am seeded into round 3 of the event. Frothing. Click HERE to see the heats...

   

Cruise to Foodland and indulge in a Toffee Nut Latte - was amazing but most likely a once off splash:

It was AMAZING

Head back to the homestead, chill and talk a bunch of rubbish that we do so well:

Decide to surf the last hour of light away and headed to the beach - we were pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be! We surfed well into the dark and we all got at least one good one and SEVERAL beatings! During the surf we were accompanied by 2 massive Southern Right whales, they were so close we could hear them blowing water through there blowhole! 

Head home and eat! (Cooked once again by Boeti)

Day successfully used to its fullest!