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While there was no real theme planned for #27 of this luminary chronicle, it’s clearly become the interview issue - I don’t know why, it’s just worked out that way. The common thread with each of the people profiled is exactly not that- it’s their uncommonness... they are all striving to forge a lifestyle in the unordinary, these are not your 9-5er, social climbers living in the ‘burbs of the 09, not that there is anything wrong with that either. These are the people that others say “Oh you’re so lucky get to surf as much as you do”, or “You’re so lucky to have spent those 6 months in Indo.” Luck has nothing to do with it, these are the type of people who are passionate enough about it to make it happen and that’s kind of inspiring. Of course this is not an exclusive club- anyone can join, you just have to be inspired enough that not following your dreams is not an option. - CPL

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On the Cover; We asked Simon Amos, he’s the guy that owns The Board Lab and makes those cool adverts in 09 to create a cover for us this issue. So bam! There you go the Creepy Fink loving the 09 summer.

On this page; Ryan Hawker- no ordinary reo- seq CPL

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words Denise Piper Paul Moretti with the best way of getting out of doing the dishes - pic CPL The 09 area can now proudly boast the youngest national champion with Sandy Bay surfer Manu ScottArrieta taking out the under 14’s title in Dunedin in January. The 13-year-old micro-grom is barely seen far from his 16-year-old brother, Patxi, who is also a competitive surfer, coming seventh in the under 16s at the Hyundai Nationals. The two brothers started surfing at the same time, about nine years ago when their parents bought them a couple of boards for Christmas. Since then they have not looked back, with their natural slash-attack ripping up waves up and down the country. 09 decided to catch up with the dynamic brothers to see how they tick:

Manu the National champ

Paxti leading the charge

What’s it like having a brother competing too?

Patxi: It’s pretty good - he’s in a different age division. Am I pushed by him?

Well, I don’t want him to get better...

Manu: He always does big stuff - it makes me want to do bigger stuff and go bigger. He pushes me. Every now and then he says ‘do this’.

What’s your ultimate aim with surfing?

Patxi: To make a career to surf competitive or free surfing it doesn’t really bother me.

Manu: Make the WCT tour.

Who are you influenced by?

Patxi: Paco Divers, Stevo Thomson and all the locals at Sandy Bay, as well as Dayne Reynolds, Maz Quinn and

Johnny Hicks.

Manu: Stevo Thompson, Patxi, Paco Divers, Oliver Bone, Ricardo Christie plus Dayne Reynolds and Kelly Slater.

What’s your favourite wave and why?

Patxi: (Despite just returning from a trip to Bali) I can’t decide - most of the North-East Coast.

Manu: My favourite wave is probably Lennox Head because it’s a fun wave and it goes for ages.

What’s your biggest strength?

Patxi: Getting speed. I’m working on 360 air reverses just when ever I can try something. I want to land everything big that I do.

Manu: Improving all the time - being an all rounder.

Are there disadvantages to living in Northland when it comes to competing?

Patxi: It’s quite far away from all the other surf competitions, it’s usually at least a three hour drive. The surf can also be quite inconsistent, it can be flat for a while.

If you had the chance to go anywhere in the world for surfing, where would you go and why?

Manu: Probably Indo because it’s got so many good consistent breaks.

O’Neill Coldwater Classic in NZ We live at the bottom of the world and while it’s easy to dwell on the negatives, like ridiculously high airfares to go anywhere else and traditional difficulties in accessing lucrative global markets combined with distribution carbon footprint...wait that’s a high brow tangent huh???

Anyways- here’s a shining example of why it’s soooo fricken cool to live in the mighty little Aotearoabecause we are at the bottom of the world, O’Neill are bringing the world to us; Gisborne is to host the Southernmost World Qualifying Event as part of O’Neill’s Coldwater Classic Series. The series is aptly billed as the most Northern and the most Southern events on the planet.

So what’s the 09 context to an event happening in the 06 area code? Well for starters Piha’s own Iain ‘Ratso’ Buchanan, who’s the head judge of the European leg of the entire WQS, will be the head judge for the comp. Jason Falconridge, pictured here doing a MAN’s bottom turn in the far 09, of course is as 09 as you can get, the General Manager of O’Neill NZ has been hands on throughout the negotiations to land the event here in NZ, he IS the man who did this.

So Jas’ it’s been of few months of wrangling to get the CWC here, how many hours do you reckon you’ve ploughed into the event so far?

I started instigating this event 2 years ago through our parent company in Europe. I have always truly believed New Zealand has the perfect platform for such an event due to our geographical location as well as heritage aspects to incorporate as a whole. A lot of e-mails back and forth and here we are. With the scale of the event there are always many hands delegated in certain areas that help immensely, it’s not just a one man band. A lot of people will deserve credit.

What more do you have to do?

The event is not too far away now so the majority of boxes have been ticked. Total marketing activation is key now as well as

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working closely with key personnel making sure everything is on track.

So come actual event you’ll be a bit more relaxed?

Always relaxed bro, once the event commences that’s when all will come to fruition. There still will be a lot of work obviously and each day will present itself with challenging conditions as well as opportunities.

It’s the first time there’s been a WQS in NZ since the heady daze of the Billabong Raglan events in the mid ‘90’s, which I think you entered- it must be quite a rad feeling being on the other-side of the coin bro?

Yes, been a long time since I competed. Any contest at this level just watching the calibre of surfing will get me totally amped.

You never know I just might wild card myself in Hahahah.

What do you expect will be the spin offs from such a big event being here in NZ? There will be a positive spin off for the localised and National surfing community at large. This can also relate back to a retail level for our brand as a benefit. To present an event of this stature here in New Zealand will provide increased recognition for the sport to an international audience as well as generating positive heat all around. Bring it on!

It’s only 7 hours drive to Gisborne, flights average $85 each way and there’s at least 4 flights a daygetting to Giztown ain’t no big deal- the CWC is scheduled for March 23 and March 29, 2011, and it will be the first stop on the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series 2011.

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Marcelo surrounded by a mere sample of his memorabiliahow cool’s the skatey!

If you haven’t already meet Marcelo de Souza, he’s been a regular in the 09 lineups for over 20 years, which probably means he’s more of a local than you. The cheerfully charismatic Brazil-nut is also the man behind Santos Coffee and Cafe’s - he’s a bloody institution.

You’ve been in NZ for decades now bro, are you a Kiwi or a Brazilian?

I consider myself a Kiwi with a Brazilian heart, but my surfboard is Australian and so is my wife- but on the other hand my two daughters are Kiwi so you do the maths - I consider myself a Kwizilian You started Santos in 1995, your flagship Ponsonby cafe was where all the cool kids hung out for yearshow come the concentration on the roasting now?

It’s like surfing, you have to decide which wave to catch. You can’t surf two waves at the same time.

Santos means saint in Portuguese, but it’s also a municipality in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s capital. Santos has the biggest seaport in Latin America, and handles a large portion of the world’s coffee exportsit even has the Coffee Museum, it’s also the home of the great Pele- I guessing this is all a HUGE coincidence?

Everything you have said is spot on. Santos means all that to me - the football, the coffee, the saint. Attached to the logo of Santos Coffee is “Cafe com Espiritu” - Coffee with Soul. I think this sums it all up for me in my life - the surf, the coffee, the football, my family - it is my soul.

You’re pushing the whole sustainable and Rain-

forest friendly angle pretty hard huh?

I am trying to put the ‘green’ back in the bean so I decided to source the most sustainable coffee without losing the quality. I found, after much tasting, that the Rainforest Alliance coffee from Brazil to be outstanding.

When you first moved here you were like the only Brazilian we knew in the water. Over the last few years there has been a huge growth in our Brazilian community, are you like- hey piss off- I’m the only Brazil nut allowed here???

As with Santos Coffee I am environmentally friendly. I wear the shorts while the new-bees freeze their nuts in steamers. In their eyes I am nuts!

It’s pretty wicked to have more Brazilian culture mixed into our 09 melting pot- how do you interact with the growing numbers of Portuguese speakers?

Brazil and New Zealand mix well. When I go to Brazil there are more and more Kiwis there. Both countries lie in the Southern Hemisphere, huge coastlines, fantastic food and lifestyle. I think Brazil adds flavour and colour to the New Zealand culture and let’s not forget the music. I am always talking to Brazilians and keeping in touch with life here and in Brazil. My heart is in both places.

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By Duane Mutu Summer has been gloriously fantastic and it makes you realise how wonderful our beautiful country is. I have been all over the place filming around the 09 beaches and had plenty of waves, I actually can’t recall a summer like this for waves since I was a kid. I hope you have all been out and enjoying the sunshine? With winter around the corner make the most of it but fare not because for all those flat days and dark winter days I will let you know what games to play. This issue Homefront and Marvel vs Capcom.

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Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two worlds is the next instalment in the legendary series. You know you all spent way too much time and money in those arcade parlours this is a chance to re live the glory days! Out Feb 18th on Xbox and PS3. Innovative graphics and game play bring the Marvel and Capcom Universes to life: Powered by an advanced version of MT Framework, the engine used in Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2, now comes to Marvel vs. Capcom 3, bringing beautiful backgrounds and character animations to the forefront.

Wild over-the-top gameplay complete with signature aerial combos, hyper combos and other original systems. The evolved battle system takes the exciting mind-reading game to a whole new level!

See the most adored characters from the Capcom and Marvel universes brought to life in a “moving comic” style, blurring the boundaries between 2D and 3D graphics.

Homefront will be one of the biggest shooters of the year! Out March 18th on Xbox and PS3. The year is 2027. The world as we know it is unravelling after fifteen years of economic meltdown and widespread global conflict over dwindling natural resources.

Abandoned by her former allies, the United States is a bleak landscape of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. This is a police state where high school stadiums have become detention centres, and shopping malls shelter armoured attack vehicles.

A once-free people are now prisoners… or collaborators… or revolutionaries. Witness the human cost of war – a gripping story from the pen of John Milius is told through immersive, interactive 1st person cut scenes. Experience explosive FPS gameplay – battle through a dynamic mix of infantry and vehicle combat in a gripping single player campaign boasting intense, memorable set pieces or take the battle online – experience large scale multiplayer action like never before in epic infantry and vehicle warfare

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09's 9 So Mr Tomas Kibblewaite, care to explain to the audience what a bridesmaid is and how this term WAS applied to you? Well when you make just about every final for the past five years but can’t win one it sucks and to lose three national titles in the last 30 seconds three years in a row you end up being a pretty big bridesmaid. For those of you who are not clued up a bridesmaid is when you keep on coming fucken second.

To be consistently at the top of the Hyundai Longboard Tour, you’re naturally a competitive bugger, these 2nd places must have fucked with you huh? Yep they fucked with me alright! It started to drive me mental and in a drunken state I would ask myself what am I doing wrong? Then when I sobered up after each loss it would keep me coming back for more.

So TK, ever the bridesmaid no more, you won the finals of the Hyundai Nationals in Dunedin this year, you are the National Longboard Champion 2011, must be a huge relief to knock that bastard off? Sure is a huge relief to get the job done! I thought I was going to just keep coming second or worse until I had had enough and never got a title under my belt. So it feels pretty dam good.

You’re always a safe bet for a final’s berth, what was the difference this time around? I think I had more of like this thing that if I did not get it this time round I was just going to walk away. Plus I have had some mega support this year and I have been training a bit too and when I’m in Dunnos it just has something about the place where good things seem to happen to me.

Last year you once again represented NZ at the World’s, you mentioned that might be the last time for you, does this change things? Maybe it might change things a bit winning a title, it has definitely given me a lot more drive into the rest of the year and I’m frothing on the Aussie leg of the LQS. It’s also the money side of things; I would hate to think how much I have spent travelling, chasing dream and not having much of a backing- being a long-boarder is hard work.

Speaking of which, most 09ers probably don’t realise you used to represent Auckland in the scholastics- Benny Hawker recently said to me you were his biggest worry in a heat, what do you remember of those grommet days? Those days were fun when the scholastic regional’s were held at Mud Bay most of the time and it would be like 6-8 foot and onshore and we would be

surfing this horrible reform. There were a few rippers in that era like Dan Scott, Jamie Phillips, Ben Hawker and Scott Bell so we would always end up with some pretty heavy little heats. Those guys all rip and it’s good every now and then when I see them in the water and I’m on my shorty as well- it can be a fun surf.

What’s the plan work wise for 2011? Well this year has been pretty flat out already- so many dings- there must be a lot of people surfing these days. SM is slowly winding into a bit of shaping for the year so hopefully some more people will hunt us down and order new boards. I have been glassing and sanding all of the boards and we are constantly trying to improve our epoxy technology. We’re making some super light mals that just go sick and I’m constantly test driving them for improvements.

And the plan surf wise for 2011? To do the NZ comps and do the best I can, then take it to the Aussie leg for the LQS events at Noosa, King Cliff and Perth later in the year. If I do well I will do a few more LQS comps around the globe as well. I haven’t planned any free surfing trips yet as I can’t think that far ahead at the moment but also just chase some good NZ waves as well.

Wanna throw out some props? I have to say a big thanks to my partner Hannah for putting up with my shit; my parents and friends who like to come to some of the comps and have a good time. The Orewa Longboard Club and my sponsors who have been amazing over the years; Smith Optics, Sanuk, Island Holidays, Underground Skate, Hooligans and my shaper Steve Morris.

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London Surf?#@*^

By Nick Ferner

As any North Shore surfer will tell ya, Nick Ferner absolutely rips. Last year he quit his dream job at Billabong to do his big OE, good karma and of course good skills saw him land a sweet job at Quiksilver UK; here is Nick’s word on the move out of the 09 area code.

The thought of moving from NZ to a cold concrete jungle is not usually the top of the list for any NZ surfer, but in March last year this is exactly what my girlfriend Genelle and I did

when we resigned from our jobs, packed our bags, said our goodbyes to friends and family and jetted across the globe to the United Kingdom to make London our new home.

Of course in true surfer fashion a journey that long would never be completed without sampling some of the delights along the way, so we jumped ship in Singapore and spent 6 months travelling and surfing our way through South East Asia.

Ask any surfer in London what they’re doing here and it

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usually begins with a tale of a job offer they couldn’t refuse, lured here by a girl/guy or the opportunities of cheap travel.

For us the 3rd option won out when contemplating the move.

Along with wanting to forge ourselves a new life somewhere out of little old NZ to see what exists beyond the horizon.

I’m now working for Quiksilver here in London and as good as it is, it’s often more of a curse than a blessing. Having to see photos and hear tales of the epic trips our riders have been on can leave you squirming in your chair and second-guessing

the reasons you’re here. On the flip side, working in a much bigger scale and getting valuable experience beyond anything that’s achievable back home is pretty rewarding.

Also having the Quiksilver HQ just south of Biarritz in the South of France with Frequent trips is pretty handy!

Being a surfer in London means keeping active; it’s all too easy to get lost in the pub/club or café scene, but if you plan trips and keep an eye on the charts you can score some amazing waves and tales to tell! Just on the doorstep is the Cornish coast, Ireland (YouTube Fergal Smith), Scotland, France and a little further the likes of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands. (Book early and it’ll cost around 200 kiwi dollars to fly to the Canaries so it’s never going to break the bank!) The key is to always have a trip booked and then you just need to come to terms with 5mm rubber during the winter and your set!

There’s a good bunch of Kiwi expats living up here always keen for a wave and adventure not to mention some funny new friends met along the way that can share local knowledge of there breaks over a few pints.

Sure London’s no NZ, but with cheap flights amounting to endless travel and great career opportunities it’s easy to see why so many Kiwis make the pilgrimage and take a while longer to get home than first imagined. In the words of Eleanor Roosevelt “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”.

Just remember when I get home, I deserve that set wave far more than you do, so hook a brother up!

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As you can see from Smashed Pipi, just next door, the Amazon concept store opened in Parnell with a bang. The 09 staff was there to sample the free piss and check the new shop fit - well actually we were more about the free Jagers, Sols and feed- but I think the store looked pretty damn mean - there’s more sticks than you can literally poke a stick at.

Cool Book Is there no end to the corners of your lifestyle that surfing will creep into? There’s surf clothes, surf music and now there’s even surf food...hmmm I wonder when [‘cos it ain’t going to be ‘if’] there’s going to be surf toiletries?

Like Eaude de Slater, or...well...better not go there with the Fanning fann... anyway! You can’t smell like them yet but you sure as hell can dine like a star now.

Nava Young, as in the daughter of the legend Nat Young, has compiled a book of the tastiest surf grits you’ll ever have to chance to munch on, and here’s the fancy bitshe’s garnered each yummy recipe from the world’s most famousreal surfers, there’s a staggering recipeseach acWhat’s super cool about the shop is60+ the library, what???? companied by an informative profile the contributorYep the library instore is fucken SICK,ofthere is just aboutyes Kelly conceivable Slater is there, in fact tothere’s over 22 world every title related boardriding andformer yes it is a champsyoufav’candishes included.

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There’s legends like Simon Anderson, Rob Machado,

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Jordy Smith, the Irons brothers, Dane Renolds, Julian Wilson, Laird Hamilton, Occy, Steph Gilmore... what I’m really trying to impress here is that there are the world leaders from every faction of surfing, even our very own Paige Hareb throws her fav’ dinner into the mix.

The hard cover book is logically divided up into Breakfasts, Starters, Mains and Desserts. A super strong point is that the recipes are EASY to follow and for the most part just good, healthy, simple kai. While this probably isn’t a book most of us 09ers would consider buying, you’d be bloody stoked if you were given it for Chrissy or as a flat warming pressie, pretty much guaranteed be a well Sitka have their new HQ up and running too, theit’ll Newmarket used book drop some hintsinto09, thebutOlds or that concept storeforever...so has been mentioned before it’s super Aunty that always thatrecycled you can’twood eveninterior re-gift. noteworthy.

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Danny Girl Glenfield College’s very own Danielle Clayton is living the dream, working in the surf industry, working in the Maldives and now working in Oz helping grow cool NZ surf brand- Kali.

my teeth surfing. I’ve lived out there a couple of times now and there’s something special about driving down Waitea Rd with Muriwai Beach stretching out for miles ahead of you. Good training ground and good crews living out there.

And the top shop has the best chocolate caramel slice!

Danny, you worked at Billabong for a while, what was your role there?

I was the North Island Accounts Manager for VZ, Nixon and Kustom; lots of road time but it was awesome being able to throw your boards in the car when doing road trips and I managed to surf a lot (before and after work of course) around the island. I had such a great experience working at Billy, with an awesome crew and with the brands I sold, and we were also involved in all aspects of working with a brand so participating in and organising events such as the Nixon Art Mosh were highlights.

So how’d you meet up with Kelly Clarkeson?

We were on the same flight back from Bali a couple of years ago, randomly sitting across the aisle from each other. Kelly’s dad, Mike, provided some good entertainment for the mission home. We also have mutual friends and it was just cool to meet another girl who rips, is creative and ambitious. She’d just been over to sort out the manufacturing of her surf bikini`s so we had a lot to talk about. She`s let me couchsurf whenever I’ve been in Raglan ever since, top lady!

During that time you also lived out at Mud Bay right?

Yeah, Mud Bay is a pretty rad spot and where I got to cut

To leave a secure job with an established brand like VZ to be at the ground floor start up of a fledgling

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brand like Kali must be very exciting?

It is exciting and I hardly slept for 3 days when Kelly first asked me because I feel there is so much potential for what she’s doing and what she’s wanting to create. NZ is a small market though for such a niche product but consumers globally are becoming more conscious on how and who they spend their $$$ on. Plus I’m a big believer in following your passions and what’s exciting for you.

At the end of the day as long as you’ve given it a go, you’ll have a wealth of experience and some good stories to tell.

The move to Raglan, lifestyle or career?

Well, wee change in plans and I`m now in Byron Bay - warm water, good waves and more girls who surf in bikinis with extra $$$ to spend. A bigger, busier version of Raglan so it’s both a lifestyle and career move. And they stock Montieths at the pubs over here yeeeeow.

Whats the general idea of Kali and what’s the plan forward?

KALi is swimwear designed for surfing in. There are no ties around your neck, different top designs for different busts, and a cheeky cut bottom design because the less material there is to catch water, the less your pants will come down.

And having just spent a season working in the Maldives, I can confidently state that my KALi bikini was the only one that never pulled down or across in the surf. The prints come from Australian artist/surfer and friend, Jess Leitmanis, and were inspired from Kelly and Jess’s surf travels around Central America. So, functional product that looks cool and tells a story. There are global-domination plans as the female surf population continues to explode and if there are any girls out there heading to the tropics this winter and need some bikinis, you can buy online at www.kali.co.nz or through the GAG store in Raglan.

Sus Coasts So Sam, I’m guessing Sustainable Coastlines started with you, James Bailey and Mark Pinkney were sitting around the flat having a few brews and commenting on what wicked beaches we have in NZ, but how bad it is when you rubbish on them, from here the chat mutated into this life consuming Organisation- how far off is my scenario?

About 6,500 nautical miles off actually, but we were sitting around a table, with Latin American brews. We were on a surf trip in the Galápagos Islands and having been there for some time (7 months total in the end!) we were starting to get island fever. We volunteered for the National Park to go out on a mingy old fishing boat with locals, to pick up rubbish for 8 days.

It was an epic trip- cruising uninhabited coastline that is closed to tourism at a top speed of 3 knots, swimming with manta rays and night diving for crays. But then finding shocking amounts of waste where nothing apart from endemic animals lived it brought it home to us that trash floats on the sea.

Shortly after this, I was bitten by a Tiger Shark and evacuated to mainland Ecuador, with the plan of making a film on return to the archipelago. The National Park authority on San Cristóbal island (a world-class surfing destination where we had been living) then asked for our assistance with a clean-up project there.

This clearly provided a good subject for a film, but with James and I broke (fixing dings to pay for kai) it took Mark Pinkney (a London-based Kiwi with a bit of coin) to throw down $500 for a filmmaker to fly out, we decided to do it, nailed a shot of tequila at 10 in the morning and Sustainable Coastlines was born.

We went on to remove 7.5 tonnes of waste from San Cristobal in one day with all stakeholders on the island taking part – something that had never before happened in a place where tensions run high between the Park authorities and local residents. So you weren’t too far off!

It seems last year Sustainable Coastlines really hit its straps, was 2010 a big year and why?

2010 was huge for us. Being just the second year of our operations, the idea behind our charity has resonated deeply with all those Kiwis who love their coastlines.

In December, we launched our biggest New Zealand project to date. It was called ‘Love your Coast’ and saw over 5,500 people work together to remove over 69,000 litres of waste from the coasts of Rangitoto Island, Te Whanganui a Tara/ Wellington, Ötautahi/Christchurch and Te Tai Poutini/The West Coast.

We also picked up a handful of awards and massive exposure for the cause and our part in protecting New Zealand’s coastlines. I guess this shows that people out there are into what we do.

Everyone here wants to look after their coastlines- they just need an excuse to do so. We provide that excuse and in 2010, we showed people that looking after our epic coastlines can

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be a whole lot of fun.

How does the average week pan out for Sam Judd?

Alongside my colleague Camden Howitt, we basically work all the time. We’re certainly not in it for the money but we do get a few benefits in that we can plan our work around good swells hitting.

We have just fitted out a headquarters in Auckland City, which has enabled us to grow and achieve more each week. We are generally bouncing between planning events, writing educational resources, delivering presentations in schools, picking up trash with school kids, and inevitably scrounging around for funding (go on, help us out! www.sustainablecoastlines.org) The Sustainable Coastlines beach clean-ups are such a simple, yet effective method of raising awareness, would you say this is the primary action of the organisation?

Education and awareness through practical action would be our primary focus, so yes. Before the launch of ‘Love your Coast’ last year we presented to over 10,000 school students around Aotearoa. Most of these students have since been out pickingup rubbish from the coast, learning hands-on what they’ve heard in the classroom.

Research has shown that Kiwi kids learn effectively on practical projects so we combine this with passing on important knowledge about coastline protection and the feedback has been great.

It is super-satisfying when we see the young ones actively learning and remembering what we teach - many have gone on to be inspired and continue the activity on their own accord after being part of our events. Basically we are seeing that raising awareness does work.

Tell me about that Auckland rubbish trail in the Gulf bro.

As most surfers know, Aotearoa has a prevailing Sou-Westerly wind. Every time it rains, rubbish from the street (no matter how far inland) enters the storm water systems and waterways and

flows into the ocean.

With a big population in Auckland, shocking amounts of rubbish enter the Hauraki Gulf on a regular basis. Aside from where people live (caring locals often take care of their patch of coast removing rubbish), every beach on the islands and coastlines around the Gulf that is unlucky enough to face the flow from the Sou-West is covered in trash.

Two years of events on Aotea/Great Barrier Island have proven this, as well as in December, when we removed 21,800 litres of rubbish in one day from the city-facing side of Rangitoto Island with just over 1,000 people.

You keep stats on all the clean-up huh, what’s been the biggest surprise for you?

Probably knowing that we removed 201,003 individual bits of rubbish from Rangitoto Island with a crew that was mainly 13-14 year-old school kids. This means each person picked up more than 200 pieces on average, amongst savage volcanic rocks on a very hot day!

Some of the stats are quite shocking. Plastic bottles (which we find absolutely everywhere) were 8346 in number - 5.5 cubic metres of space!

We also removed 24,021 plastic lids, 27,364 plastic bags, 3531 straws and 954 parking tickets/receipts. It is clear that the main offenders here are single-use plastics, which is surprising because they generally things that people don’t actually need and can choose not to use in the first place.

If anyone out there (schools, volunteers, organisations and businesses) wants to get amongst our upcoming events- we will be at the Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour final at Port Waikato on the 5th and 6th of March.

We also have a sweet trip planned for Coromandel Town/Te Kouma Harbour and the Happy Jacks Islands on the 1st-3rd of April. Following that, on the 15th and 16th of April, we will be doing a huge clean-up of Auckland’s North Shore.

To learn more, receive updates, support the cause and sign up for events, check www.sustainablecoastlines.org.