Travel Guide

West Coast Surfing / Whakahekeheke


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You are now travelling along Scenic Drive, a road which provides access to many of the West Coast’s renowned surf beaches. Surfing has a well-established history on this coast. Maori had their own surfing traditions known as whakahekeheke, and in the 1920s, locals and visitors began to improvise surfing on planks pulled from old millhouses. The first purpose-made balsa-wood surfboards were crafted in the 1950s, while fibreglass boards came into vogue in the 1960s. Today the longer Malibu board is undergoing a renaissance.
 
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