Definitely one of the many highlights on the already awesome trip. I’m always torn between documenting the riding and trying to get laps in—along with the timelines of trips, etc., but I’m not complaining, just wish there was more than 24 hours in a day. Shout out to John Kelly for being a great tour guide and all around awesome dude. Feeding eels late at night, exploring, riding trails on dialed property, BBQ’s, fires and Bogan activities—everything was right up my alley and still brings a smile to my face when I think about it. Tom also checked off one of his to-do’s of riding moto on a beach (with his clothes on—not naked). Scroll on to check it out!

Above: John Kelly’s

Above: Soundcloud Shane found a shopping trolley his size

Below: Jayham went straight to the outdoor tub at John’s and took a cold one

Above: Roxy

Below: Tom on the starting hill

Above: Jam’n salmon Tom

Below: Levi & John

Above: RedBelge-B-Q

Below: Jayham on the TikTok

Above: Proper BBQ

Below: John giving us the property tour—epic tour guide, contact him for mean tour guides, word is he’s booked up until 2069 though

Above: More exploring

Below: Mean diesel

Above: Go-Kart Tom

Below: Soundcloud Shane on the Kawasaki hog

Above: You can take a man out of the Black Country, but you can never take the Black Country out of a man. Jayham The Strangler

Below: John Kelly’s jumps at night

Above: Smokey Bogan sunrise at John Kelly’s

Below: Shady oversized tennis ball

Above: Roxy

Below: Jayham & Roxy

Below: We headed out to Waipu to do some beach things

Above: John telling Tom where to rip it

Below: Lukas enjoying a beach rip

Above: Soundcloud Shane thinking about turning into MotoShane

Below: Tom and Nate

Above: Levi and Shane building some jumps

Below: This…

Above: RedBelge surfing

Below: Nate rip’n a wheelie

Above: Moto details

Below: Tom stoked that he got to ride on a beach

Below: Jayham and John Kelly

Above: Celebratory Beach Sesh

Below: This was fun, even though I hate sun and becahes

Above: Tom right and left berm blast

Below: RedBelge rip’n it too

Above: Lukas and Hamish

Below: The Crew and Tom doing some stunts

Above: Tom and Lukas

Below: Tom

Above: Packing up after a full day at Waipu Beach

Below: Back at John Kelly’s for an evening sesh

Above: Starting hill at John Kelly’s

Below: RedBelge with a no footed can can

Above: Local shredder and Hamish with a kick out

Below: Levi and Hamish with a tuck

Below: Hamish one hander

Above: Wildlife spotting, ring-neck pheasant and New Zealand’s only native owl, the Morepork. In unrelated news, Tom took out two birds on the drive up here.

Below: After sesh chill

Above: Great way to end a great day

Below: John Kelly and Fire

Above: Some tree growing in a tractor engine and John giving us a proper night tour

Below: Eel pool time

Above: I think we fed eels for like a good 45 minutes, they like raw bacon

Below: Levi getting the Samurai experience

Above: You know you are in good company when someone has a Samurai—these things are sleepers, great apocalypse vehicles

Below: Proper fire… some tires rolled into that fire—allegedly

Above: No light pollution out at John’s… quite nice and peaceful. I also woke up at like 3 AM to take this after my tent filled with mosquitoes and rolled downhill

Below: Another beach sesh in the morning before heading back South to Rotorua

Above: Everybody has crabs—well, looking for crabs

Below: Tom’s crab catch and release program

Above: Jayham enjoying the water

Below: Nate thinking about Kiwi birds