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Transforming the Streets Ben Joins Reset IFLA Award for Judges Bay 2013 NZILA Awards Town Square Opening Garth wins Omaha surf comp Revisting Mount Maunganui Pocket Park Two Underway Navy Museum Works Update Re visiting Taranaki NZILA Auckland Chairman Garth Celebrates 25 years CityGate Underway Completion of the Landing Across the Boards - Issue 9 Pukekohe Town Square Tomato growing challenge Tiri Road Pocket Park The Vivian Gallery Spring Time in Matakaka Retrieving Shoal Bay PARK(ing) Day Urban Sketchers Intelligent Furniture Across the Boards - Issue 8 The Landing Garth's Trip to Tonga Shared Space Opening Matakana Main Street Parkland Guidelines IPENZ Award - Judges Bay Gibbs Sculpture Park Visit Fraser Wins Surfing Comp Christophe Girot - visting soon Across the Boards - Issue 7 Hamilton Shared Space Garth's Visit to the Red Zone Core Builders Composites Book Review by Garth Waiuku River Lane Ocean View Road Pocket Park Te Hana Visit Merry Christmas Christophe Girot Visit Christmas in the Pa Garden Place Sculpture Opening Jamie Joins Reset Across the Boards - Issue 6 Waiuku River Lane Update Garth's Trip to Perth Book Review by Garth Surfers Paradise Foreshore Bryce St Dining Lane Auckland Spatial Plan DIA WA Forum Judges Bay Update Garden Place Opening RWC Opening Night 'Gardensity' The City as a Play Space Wynyard Quarter Ken & Garth Visit Christchurch Rebel Art Judges Bay Construction Ken Smith Lectures Skate Pinball AILA Sustainability Conference Re visiting Havelock North Boomtown 2050-Book Review Ken Smith Visit - July Omaha Club Surf Competition e2 Design Documentary Chartered Fishing Trip Omaha Quarry Across the Boards - Issue 5 Maori Architecture - Book Review The Landscape in Greece London River Park China to Create Mega City Weekend Deluge The Vege Patch Waiuku Town Square Simon Rackham Visit January 2011 Surf Trip Hypar Pavilion Reset Surf Trip 2010 Garden Place Update Nat's Sabbatical Terrorquake - Garth Falconer Across the Boards - Issue 3 Pavement to Parks Te Hana Book Review -Town Planning Environmental Award 2010 Reset ski trip Claire's Back Seven Days Longest Bench, Littlehampton Abbie Joins the Team Reset Turns Two Elizabeth Mossop Visit Book Review - Hargreaves Across the Boards - Issue 2 Interpretive Signage Allen Nicholson Green Megalomania Book Review - Ken Smith Great White South - Part 1 Great White South - Part 2 From Terrorism to Tourism Claire Heads to Uganda 2010 NZILA Awards Nell Fisher Reserve Opens Winter Olympics Hillary Trail Waiuku Weir Sculpture in the Garden Summer Surf Spots San Clemente Trails Mexico Across the Boards - Issue1 Scott Joins Reset London Olympics Drawing Workshops Waiuku River Lane California Scenario Plaka Paris Revisited Reset Ski Trip Noguchi's Landscapes Architecture+Site:25 Ballast Point Park - Walama Wil Alsop Retires 2 x 2 Marc Treib Visit Paddington Reservoir Park Waiuku Built Works CityMall Built Works High Line Park Reset Research Facility Sydney Water Police Park Bus Stops Revisited Swanston St Melbourne Hamilton Goes Digital Potsdammer Platz Waiuku Built Works Le Grand Paris Hamilton Built Works Natalie Joins Reset Reset Boot Camp Landscape NZ Launch Borneo Sporenberg Reset Opens Doors

newsGarth and his family recently visited Tonga for a mid winter break. They first went up to the northern islands of Vava’u to join Garth’s brother in law James and partner Marina, who were sailing back from Europe on a catamaran. They then began a three day sailing trip down to the Ha’pai grounp, en route treated to play of many humpback whales and deserted atolls. Towards the end of the holiday they stayed at the Ha’atafu Beach Resort on the main island of Tongatapu for a week. This family run business was set up thirty years ago by Australian surfer/chef Steve Burling and is run by the extended family, consisting of a series of comfortable fales around communal facilities with great seafood provided. The surfing waves were a short 100m paddle straight in front of the resort, the left hander was quick and round! They enjoyed the relaxed Tonga time, the slow buses and tidy villages. Checked out the centre of Nukelofa, partly rebuilt though it would be fair to say it is a work in progress. Overall we should know our Pacific island neighbours better. Tonga is certainly worth a visit.