The Arch Field the wind still loading snow

the wind still loading snow off the upper ridges

Ben was in the channel with the housing

the rock spine reading bare against the wash

a chain that became the world's most coveted surf address once charter boats started running from Padang in the early 1990s

Ben framed it through the palms and frangipani on the way back to camp

The Arch Field the wind still loading snowCathedral Cove sits at the northern end of New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, reached by a 45 minute walk down from Hahei or by boat in summer. The arch is what most people come for a hollowed out passage between two beaches, cut into volcanic ignimbrite by the Pacific over millions of years. Te Hoho Rock, the sea stack out front, is what completes the frame. Ben got there at first light, when the cove still belongs to whoever woke earliest and the