A new year and some new surf pictures. The west coast hasn't had the best of conditions with gusty onshores and huge swells. One place was sheltered fro these conditions. After a grey start to the day, the sun came out and I caught some of these lucky locals getting some fine waves.

While I was there DOC was pulling out a beaked whale that had died the previous day. Quite amazing to see if a little smelly. The whale died from an infestation of worms in the kidney and in one shot you can see the spaghetti like mass being pulled from the artery.