I recently went on an expedition to the far South of New Zealand in search of the elusive Moa bird, which is thought to have been extinct. I figured if I caught one on camera then I could sell the footage to Nat Geo or Discovery and be rich and famous and all that Jazz. Somewhere along the way I got side-tracked and just ended up going surfing, it was way more fun than searching for extinct wildlife. At one point I thought I saw a Moa peek its head out through the trees, turned out to be a power pole.
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The 2012 Nike US Open of Surfing saw the world’s best surfers return to challenge one another and the one-to-three foot (0.5 mtere) surf on offer today at Huntington Beach Pier, narrowing the field in both the men’s ASP Prime and Women’s ASP WCT divisions.
Courtney Conlogue (USA), 19, current No. 5 on the ASP Women’s WCT ratings, was responsible for two heat wins today. The talented natural-footer started strong with a Round 2 victory and advanced directly through to the Quarterfinals in dominant fashion while amassing the event’s highest scores. Conlogue snatched a 9.10 on the way to a 17.27 out of 20 heat total for a combination of committed outside backhand turns and punctuated her scores with progressive tail-drifting turns on the inside  … More
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