Surf's up
VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sun 10 Feb 2013 11:52
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So, having got started again I'll revert to a more
chronological order.
Picking up where I left off, we went to
Christchurch on the South Island for Christmas. Our son Tom has taken up
surfing, and his mother was determined to follow suit - so off we went to the
beach just before Christmas on an untypically murky day.
Here are some of the motley crew on the beach.
Hannah (Tom's girlfriend) on the right, our daughter Kate who joined us for
Christmas in the centre, and half of the crew of the Vulcan Spirit,
somewhat strangely attired, stage right. The other half of the crew knows fine
well that he's too old and insufficiently nimble to take up surfing and so
took the photos for posterity.
 Learning is a slow process (apparently surfing has
the slowest progression rate from beginner to adept of all sports due to
the very small percentage of time spent balancing on a board compared to the age
spent waiting for just that right wave). But here is the world's most recent
tyro surfer getting the hang of it. Up:
 Up:
 And away:
 By this time (a good hour in) our heroine had
boldly declared herself a natural. Subsequent events have given the lie to this
claim.
But Kate made good progress, helped no doubt by her
prowess on a snowboard:
 And enjoyed herself, it seems:
 Tom shows how it's done:
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