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Held every year since 2000 the Bora Bora Liquid Festival (better known to the locals as the IronMana) has taken over the crystal clear waters of Bora Bora, Polynesia’s most beautiful island atoll. The week long festival is an all-out celebration of multiple ocean-based disciplines including a 6km swim, a 55km surfski division, a waterman triathlon, SUP and Va’a sprint races, and of coarse the festival’s traditional endurance race. On the final day of the festival the best of the best watermen compete in either a 40 km SUP and Lay Down Paddle Race, a 50 km Surf Ski Race, or the 60 km Solo Outrigger Canoe Race.
If you’re searching for the ultimate whitewater destination, look no further than the Southwest. The region is home to an abundance of rivers that provide an ideal playing field of rapids ranging from mild class II and III sections to roaring class IV and V rapids.
Canoe and Kayak Managing Editor and former rafting guide, Dave Shively, has made a living rafting the Southwest and knows that spring is the time to plan a trip to the region  … More
When Ted Phillip opens the curtains in the morning and finds a good old Manawatu westerly blowing, he is in heaven.
His celebrations don’t go down well with those who aren’t his accomplices in the land-sailing sport known as blokarting.
“You don’t have many friends,” he said. “People say, `the bloody wind in Palmerston North’.”
Not Phillip. He packs his sleek 29kg kart into the boot of his car and heads for Coronation Park, the Sanson sports ground or Himatangi and Foxton beaches. Sometimes a secondary runway at Ohakea will be opened for them, or a Massey University car park  … More