SabineNik

Not much happened since the last Blog entry...:-), but lets begin from the start. We stayed again some time in Taranaki, where we enjoyed playing golf with sheep in between…sometimes they also got shot..;-)..Stupid sheep! We did a lot of surfing in Taranaki, Nik convinced me this time to publish more surf pics, as i find them more or less all the same, but don't tell him! A new piece of electronic is now part of our stuff; nik bought the new gopro - hero2, which really takes fantastic pics, even under water. Was quite fun to film duckdives or kayaking in the surf. The Gopro was also a reason why we headed to the Coromandel Peninsula again, to do a short kayak trip to the Cathedral Cove. Although we have been there 2 months ago, ... read more

Now it’s been a very long time since the last entry, we were quite busy searching for the next surf and the next kajak session. I won’t write that much as we realized that less and less people are reading our blog! Anyway, after some days in Raglan we headed towards Rotorua, were the famous geysers of nz are, impressive and very smelly...We found a pretty nice campground with hot water pools and enjoyed there two days of very rainy weather. The next week we spent again in Raglan where I (Sabine) bought a new surfboard, now it starts to make fun again as it is a little bigger than the old one and finally I can catch some waves. As the week in raglan was very rainy, I started doing yoga classes with Monica (thanks ... read more

...the rookie South America mistake...we entered Argentina via the Paso Jama in the Andes, fuelling up our car in San Pedro heading for Susques to stop, refresh and get gas. On top of the pass (which goes up to 4830) we saw a pretty big and open gas station with a sign in front of it saying "Next gas station Susques 115km", so we decided to drive by...big mistake, in Argentina when you find a station that is open and actually sells gas, refill!! There were two estaciones de servicio in Susques, the first probably destroyed by the Spanish when conquering South America and the second one selling only Diesel...F***!! The next one was supposed to be 160km downhill, our calculations said that we have gas for approximately 140km under normal conditions (in the altitude the ... read more

So, has been a long time since we posted something on our blog! The reason is that after our return from Peru we got kinda stuck in Arica, but in a good way! It felt really nice to have some sort of a home (the hostel is really nice, thanks to Kurt by the way) and we spent the days with surfing, relaxing on the beach and hanging out with our new friends Adam from Brisbane and Fabiola from Zürich! Surfing was really great, got used to La Isla and had some good days. We also did a day trip to the Bolivian boarder which is situated in the stunning National Park Lauca. So there is not much to report except that we really enjoyed the last weeks. Next stop, San Pedro de Atacama...... read more

The way north to Arica took us two days, spending the night at a beach close to Antafogasta. Staying in Arica felt really like going on a vacation. We met really nice guys from New Zealand and David from Germany, which pushed the surfing a little bit (thanks for that by the way)! Had some pretty relaxed days, nice BBCs and made plans for Peru...... read more