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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (655038)	3/23/2018 1:09:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	6 Recommendations Recommended By Alan Smithee garrettjax James Seagrove lightshipsailor pheilman_ and 1 more member Respond to of 793994

The Piha road is for sissies now though really nice for swishing along. In the good old days it was gravel, narrow with judder bars worn in and the road was cut out of banks. In my 1953 Hillman it was a challenge worthy of Piha. Piha is a magical place at the interface of city and forever with wildness meeting in wave functions crashing onto rocks, cliffs made from volcanic leftovers made from the remnants of old stars, iron sand beaches, ponga forest, fires lit by vandals. Swimming in the water is a mixture of fun and survival. Often enough actual death as the currents and waves are merciless as fitting for the nexus of the tame and forever. Some of Sier Richard Belanger's ashes are there in the cove over the hill at the south end. He did radioactive dosimetry for IDEC. He ans wife Debbie came here for the Y2K America's cup racing. Debbie gave the ashes to me when I went to visit in 2005. He loved surfing off La Jolla near where they lived. One day he didn't feel well while surfing, went back to the house and died in the shower. He told me once he was surfing at sunset at La Jolla. As a wave curled up there was a fish in the wave and the sun was shining through the wave. Mqurice