Exploring Gisborne | House & Wave Hunting in New Zealand's Surfing Capitol
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- Gisborne is New Zealand's Surfing Capital and it's known for its great surf, sunshine, and good vibes. Come with us as we explore Gisborne New Zealand, house hunting and surfing, as well as visiting the farmer's market and cooking homemade pizza with friends. Good times!
I'm Alex, I'm a travel filmmaker, photographer, and TV host. On this channel, I'll share some travel guides, motivational and inspirational videos from lessons I've learned during my life and cooking recipes from international cuisine using vegetables grown in my home garden. Hopefully, my videos will help you learn new skills, find happiness, inspire exploration, and grow your creativity. Stay tuned friends!
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My second home at the other end of the world
Alex, never underestimate the value of viewing a property on a rainy day. That's always the best time to find any leaks and other adverse water problems. When you view properties on fine days, often these things aren't detected until after you move in and the first rain hits. Just remember, most of NZ, compared to many places, has high rainfall, (hence, the reason why the country is so green), so water issues are something you need to heed on a constant basis. Good luck with your house hunting.
Great piece of advice there June. Thank you!!
I saw Gisborne and almost cried. My home!!
Beautiful place to call home 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Been following you both for some time now. Never ever thought you guys would come here that's amazing.
We loved it in Gisborne! Thanks for following and supporting the journey. All the best!
Yes I live in Kaiti Gisborne!! Wwlcome to the coast!
Thanks Marilyn!
New Zealand is pure bliss ❤️💚
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
This is so cool to see. Gisborne is my home town 🥰
We loved it there. Such a chill city
Lanka is such a happy pup 🐕
He’s always in a good mood :)
Hello~👋 Thanks for sharing my friend 🥳 Have a nice day & stay safe. God bless you always 🥰🙏💕🌿🌾
I'm a kiwi in San Francisco, my house is in Kaiti I so look forward to getting back. The guy that wrote the tv series Flipper retired to Wainui Beach Gisborne, says it reminded him of Malibu in the 50's. Gisborne has awesome wine, try Vinoptima Gewurtztraminer and Milton Syrah which has a touch of eucalyptus from the trees that grow next to the vines
I didn’t know the flipper thing but good move on his part. Wainui is wayyyy nicer than Malibu haha
How’s America haha it must be so cool and I have a farm out in uawa I’m in Australia Rn
Malibu in the 50s would have been way better than it is now that's for sure 😂😂
How those pizzas look that might be an opportunity. Blows pizza hut and dominos away
Hahah thank you!! Gotta keep it fresh!
Hey guys! Great work! I live and grew up in Gizzy! (Surf!) I just want to say really well done showing a variety of Gisborne and well done with the Maori pronunciation with the names and words! So epic to see awesome happy, positive vibes here in Gizzy! Live in Love my friends! 🧡🌈🙏💛😀🌈
Thanks Darren! Good vibes in Gizzy for sure!
Wow! I am just absolutely blown away by the visuals and close-ups that you do, as well as what we see from far away with the ocean and fields. Seeing and listening to the rain was a nice touch as well. I sincerely hope you all find a new home to settle down in soon. I as always look forward to your next video adventure next time! :-D
Thank you Adam! Glad you like my style of cinematography 🤙🏼
can't get enough of these videos ... keep them coming!
Thanks Robin! More on the way. Would you mind telling me what exactly you dig about this style of video so I can incorporate it more into future videos?
The best fish n Chips in new Zealand are in nuhaka stop in and get a feed then go to morere hot springs
Sounds epic!
Or go to Mahia for a Surf and Dive yeah!!!!
Great job, in Southern California
Heat wave, loving the rain!!!!
So jealous!
hi alex and carrie yes! your in my hometown, as you describe it gizzy thats what its like slow ,take it easy city
Its that kiwi fella again upto his usual self chillin and vibin 😎👌🏽🇳🇿🤙🏽Dear NZ, god i miss you ❤️
🙌🏼😂 NZ is so chill. Thanks for tuning in ✌🏼
I live in Gizzy guys and it is a super cool place to live. Our beaches are the best! And a surfers paradise. You need to come back during summer for the summer vibe feeling. Who knows though you may be living here yourselves by then. Anyway its nice to see my home town through the eyes of visitors - possibly soon to be locals :D
Thank you!! We lovedddd Gizzy! Such a chill town :)
@@AlexanderAyling It's super hot in summer. Perfect place to be by the sea!
I live in Christchurch but if I were coming to New Zealand fresh without a need to be in one particular place or have to live in a larger city I would choose Nelson. It's chill with a great, creative community of people, stunning beaches and forest close by and sunny (for NZ)
Yeah Nelson is a vibe for sure!!
Need lot money live there
Kiwi work there many years ago yes it nice place .Sister living there love weather never really get cold even in winter
Nelson has the best climate in NZ but housing in expensive.
Yes Nelson is lovely, if you can afford it, and if you can live somewhere away from the busy roads, lol
Such a beautiful area huh! My grandfather is buried in Tolaga Bay, near Gisborne, so we would go there often as kids to visit him. I looooove that coast. Beautiful video, and all the best for the house hunt!
Thank you Jamie! We haven’t made it up to Tolaga Bay yet but want to take the caravan all the way around the East Cape once spring comes :)
Awww super excited to have found your channel!!! Fellow US vloggers in NZ 🤩! I’m going to be watching your back catalog and seeing what I can learn, your content looks super cool! Just subbed, can’t wait to watch more!
Awe this is my Home town, thank you for sharing 🌟 💓 🌟
Makes me very teary I haven't been able to get home for 2 years because of covid.
Thanks and enjoy the slice of paradise xxxx
Glad we could bring back some memories. Love you name by the way it’s the name of the lead character in a book series I’m reading right now
@@AlexanderAyling
Enjoy the Beautiful beaches they are so stunning 🌊🌴🌊
Are you reading clan of the Cave Bears?
Thank you my Mum read this book while she was pregnant with me and if I was born with blonde hair and blue eyes she would call me Ayla and I was 😍😍😍
Looks like a great place for mountainbiking and trail running.
Oh yeah there is all of that and lots more
Here's the king of surfboards ❤
Hahah 🙏🏼🙏🏼
You finally made it my city welcome to Gisborne.
Thank you! Loved it there 🙌🏼
@@AlexanderAyling You said you were staying in Kaiti which is where I live.
Beautiful!!! We are going to New Zealand 🇳🇿 this August!!! Can’t wait
Awesome! Are you coming from Australia
@@AlexanderAyling They live in the States
How so??? Borders are closed. Unless its essential work Visa!
Wishing you the best of luck as the house hunt continues! Your videos are and continue to be the ultimate aesthetic masterpiece!! 👏🏼😻🎉
Aww thank you Anna! That is so nice to hear. Got another one coming soon! Stay tuned :)
I grew up in Gizzy my folks still live there, was a great place to grow up in!
Yeah it seems like it would be. NZ seems like a great place to grow up.
Gizzy Hard. Great place for families too. Gets really busy over summer. Think you would enjoy RnV Too...
Thanks Greg
If you like a drier climate, check out North Otago. I live here and I love the fact that most of the bad weather seems to skirt round us. We have lots of beaches and are handy to Dunedin and Timaru, also 3 1/2hr drive to Christchurch
Yes I lived in Dunedin during Uni for a year and did a season in Queenstown afterwards. So beautiful down there!
Gizzy is a cool place though rain cannot stop you from looking into properties, atleast the beach itself is worth fighting for... For sure one day, you will find a place & a property you can call home. ✌️😎🇳🇿
Thanks Alex. love your vlogs 💖💐🇳🇿
Thank you Nikki!!! Fingers crossed!
Nice vid man, enjoying, living the life. Showing the old homestead, then probably show the better ones as you go along. Watch out, BlackRock saw the vid and is buying them all up!
Nice work you guys- provincial Aotearoa small cities provide the best quality of life in our country. Nice mix of explanation and letting your filming speak. We live in The Taranaki - rural- 30 min to a nice city... life under the volcano.
Thank you Ross! We visited New Plymouth last weekend and liked the vibe there too although the weather didn't cooperate with filming. We will have to come back again.
The slang! 😂 You've got it!
Haha thank you!
One of the best places on earth!
Sounding like a true kiwi, Alex Maori pronunciation very good. Churr churr
Cheers ✌🏼✌🏼
I'm always a fan of your videos . Love it !!
Thank you Debika 🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@AlexanderAyling 🥰
Get them Wainui beach barrells into ya!!!luv gizzy,from West Oz.
Gizzy is the best place in the summer!!!
Yeah I can imagine. It was still nice in Autumn
Nelson gives Gisborne a good go with the weather.
Alex I see in the local paper 2 days ago an article done on the survival kit that the fly fishing guide you had on a few videos ago. Looks like he is doing well thanks to you, so if he hasn't thanked you yet I'll do it for him as I think it wouldn't have happened but for your video, the paper is called The Otago Daily Time.
Thanks Barry!!
Awesome, my home city.
Great spot!
Surf Highway 45 bro. West Coast Taranaki. Best breaks you will ever find. Great B&Bs along the way too. Last place in the world to see the sunset.
Nice surfing!!! Both pizzas looked yummy, especially the veggy. Stay safe guys!😘🤗🌻❤
Thank you Monique 🙏🏼🙏🏼
That canvas of the wharf above the couch is in my home town, Tolaga Bay 😊
Nice! We hope to do the whole East cape with the caravan in the spring
@@AlexanderAyling you’ll both love it! That wharf is the longest in the Southern Hemisphere :) , our east coast is beautiful 😍
So cool I live in gisborne, hope you guys have a nice time here 😀
Kia ora Ata! We LOVED Gizzy and hope to come back again soon. Especially in the Spring/Summer. Hope all is well. Cheers!
Gisborne is another slice of heaven in nz like your pizza "yum" and "tasty" very fulfilling 😁. My son has been watching the market for the pass year looking to buy property with some acres around the outta of Gizzy, no luck yet. But my advice to you all is keep on trucking you'll find your nest 👍🏽
Thanks Meg! Good luck to your son!
@@AlexanderAyling And too you guys as well ✌🏽
Naaaw this my hometown😍 shout out to all the whanau on the east coast. Xx i jus subscribed love the channel xx
Thank you 🙏🏼
My hometown 🥺
Nice to see a detailed video of Gizzy, you went to the best coffee shop lol kaiti has the best fish n chips too. My Marae is a 5 minute drive from Manutuke. You’re making me super homesick, I live in Abu Dhabi at the moment. Can’t wait to get home though!
Happy house hunting, check out Whangamata too.
Thank you! Hope all is well in Abu Dhabi. Cool spot over there but so different from NZ!
Chur that awesome as guys, thats my tribal home and there is so many places to choose from to surf, plus if u get to know the iwi they may show u the magical healing hot pools. My iwi is from tokomaru bay and it is a truly stunning bay with the best kaimoana. And all the gizzy locals are laid back friendly people. U need to check out rythm and vines at the end of the year, its one of the best festivals around and sells out quick as and is the number 1 new years eve destination.
I really hope u do find a place up there as it would be really neat to meet u guys in real life and show u some of the history when i get up there.
Good luck u 3 and best wishes for ur goals.
Thank you Michelle!! I would love to link up with some locals and learn the iwi history/ a soak would be extra haha
Hearing you say " pissing rain " warms my heart haha
An old friend of mine always said the best places to live are Gisborne and Karamea :)
Haven’t been to Karamea yet
@@AlexanderAyling might have to put on the "to do" list? :)
Evening Alex from the U.K.! Hope you are doing well? Looks like a really nice house and garden.
Thanks François! Hope all is well with you in the UK.
@@AlexanderAyling Yep, I’m good thanks. The situation in the U.K. is ok currently, the vaccine drive is progressing really well.
Good news!!! Still waiting on ours down here. Hopefully by end of July
@@AlexanderAyling Cool! Had my first vaccine a few weeks ago, super easy and didn’t hurt at all.
Hey Hey! Welcome to the neighborhood 😉👌 Okitu resident here🏄♀️
Thanks Gina 🤙🏼
Haha love hearing you picking up the kiwi slang! Pissing down with rain and waiting for the Mrs! Gotta love it! Your Maori pronunciation has gotten much better too! :)
Cheers Jess! I grew up with my old man always firing off Kiwi slang and all my friends from California constantly asking me to translate haha
@@AlexanderAyling haha good to see that you haven't lost it after so long! 😊
Oh yey you guys have made it to where I live! Hope you enjoy it here 😊
Thank you!!! We loved it there
From watching your videos I think it's the kind of city you'll love, it's very chill, lots of opportunity and summer is long and hot. House prices unfortunately have gone mental but compared to the rest of the country you might be ok. Good luck to you and Carrie.
Alex and Carrie hello try Mahia beach and houses there its lovely to check out this place also cheers thanx.
We want to do a spring surf trip to Mahia with our caravan! Thanks for watching Kerrie
Alex kerrie and judd here thanx for your comment just to let you know me and judd where born and bread in Napier since 1962 we built our brand new home in greenmeadows back in the day then move and worked in LA area Anaheim,then move to Hawaii and now living in Brisbane australia since 2006 i do miss my home town and country planning on coming back for good this year.
Gizzy Hard! 💖
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Love the video Alex !!!!!
Thank you Timothy!
Loved this video 👍🏻
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Gissy town! My home town 🤙
Great spot! 🤙🏼
I like when you said "waiting on the mrs" then the smirk, like yes, i cracked the slang hahaaaa from a dude in gizzy, good luck
Cheers Shane! Sometimes we wait a while on the missus eh? Haha
@@AlexanderAyling most definitely sometimes hahaaaa👍
How funny my husband and I are in this video, totally unawares until a friend just happened to be watching this and spotted us 😆 We don't live in Gisborne but love buying Oliebollen when we are there 🤤
Hahah. Which part of the video were you in?
@@AlexanderAyling 6:27 on the far right
Ooh oliebollen...
Good luck luck with your house hunting. 👍🏽
What happened to towing the retro caravan? It's so charming.
It’s a bit chilly during the winter. Once spring comes we will for sure be back with the caravan :)
You guys should look in Taranaki, similar vibes to Gisborne with a bonus giant volcano
Yeah we went there a two weeks ago. Cool town but the weather didn’t cooperate with filming. I got some shots from there coming up in my next video though.
@@AlexanderAyling nice, I love the wildness of it there, would love to live there one day
Gtown 👊🏽💙
Amazing video Alex 😎
Thank you Lunga. 🙏🏼
Great man! I love your videos!
Thank you Kushal! More on the way!
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Hey man glad you made it out! I'm a US expat from San Diego in Dunners, stoked to see your vid! Enjoy bradda! 🤙🏽
Cheers!! I studied down there at uni and am from SD originally too. 🤙🏼
Hey Alex make sure you check out Raglan 🤘🏄♂️ Keep up the vids
Yes I surfed it twice so far. Fun wave and a cool town!
Did you make it to Rere falls?. Best rock slide ever!!!
Not this time around. A bit chilly. Saving it for warmer weather :)
Other great coastlines for surf, as well as idyllic calm spots and spectacular scenery include many beaches up northland way (so perfect in summer - much more further up than just maungawhai or tawharanui/omaha/goat island) (smaller towns though except for whangarei), and the coromandel. I hear New Plymouth is good too. Abel tasman has some of the best coastline around too, but less in the way of surf. For the truly primeval, you need to get all along the west coast of the south island - from the perfect sandy beaches with nikau palms and great surf by the heaphy track and the opua arches in kahurangi national forest, all the way down through westland (another national park), punakaiki and through to fiordland (another). It's just filled with giant 1000 plus year old great endemic (native to only NZ) podocarp forest as well as NZ Beech forest, the surf is wild and you need a thicker wetsuit, and the places are far more isolated. The hikes and lakes and mountains through all this giant forest is spectacular (and things like kayaking and lodges about are wonders to stay at). I hope you get there some day. I know you've been to a part of fiordland (lots more there than just milford), but the entire west is just as exciting if sometimes less accessible.
Thank you Tom!! We’ve got plenty more to explore :)
@@AlexanderAyling for sure! And much more than mentioned aside from those surf spots! Close to where you are, the te urewera ranges (national park) with it's massive forests, great walk, and lakes is a stunner. Whirinaki forest is probably the most accessible awe inspiring podocarp forest you'll find that lets you know what's out there in the deeper bush. It's fairly well trapped to, so there's a bunch of native birds in abundence that are usually hard to.find and very melodius in their collective calls. The kaka are pretty playful to play with too. Good luck finding those other natural hotsprings and secret spots out there in rotorua and such too.
Great description of the west coast Tom Mcmurty. I love the west cost scenery!
Video 5:30, we saw a tree, that looks exactly like Whomping Willow from Harry Potter 😊
Hahah the trees here talk and move lol
Hi there Alex and Carrie. Did Carrie find a shop that sells Matcha ? Healthpost sells it. This is a truly a beautiful part of paradise. ❤😊
She did!! Thanks Joanne
@@AlexanderAyling awesome enjoy your Sunday.. 🙏😊
Awesome.bro if you think gizzys surfs good go checkout new plymouth on the opposite coast if you haven't already.youl love the surf man..hangloose🤙
We went last weekend but the weather didn’t cooperate. Liked the town though :)
Stupid weather.lol
Kaiti aka the most hori place in gisborne
My friends parents own the wine company. That wright's whine
Hahah small world. It was good!
Bro keen on some meet ups well go diving up tolaga Bay or somthing
They absolutely look nice but need one more thing, anchovies
Hahah need that salt??
@@AlexanderAyling definitely my bro
🏄♂️ at Waihi beach.
I have. Love Waihi Beach too
Wainui beach.
Pizza... pizza... no, thanks!! I'd like to live in New Zealand:)
Hope you like Levin when you get there lol
How was it surfing at Waunui or as i call it Okitu
Because I life close to the dairy if you been there
Bro. Must try bollywood star resturant in gisborne
Sir how much population this city has or there is quitness there
Thought it was Grant Elliot ( ex NZ cricketer ) in thumbnail!!! Doppelganger much?? ,😆😂
I have so many doppelgängers it’s silly haha
Kaiti..... did your car get broken into?
Btw... take your shoes off when walking into a nz home
Some Pacific nations see sunrise 1st.
this beard suits you!
Thank you! It’s what happens when I don’t give a sh:t
I agree. the fuller beard is nice.
Often it's best to just let it happen.
my house is in this lol
Any particular reason you want to move to Gisborne? Its very isolated, has a lot of poverty, has massive gang and drug problems and its economy has pretty much stalled?
I think they're just checking out there options mate and Gizzy is an awesome place, just depends where you wanna buy and what you make off your life there, the economy in Gisborne is fine and it's not that isolated.
Gisbourne has flouridated water, which in my mind is a drawback. The climate sounds nice though
Where did u move to brother?
Wellington Region 👍🏽
@@AlexanderAyling thats amazing. Hopefully i get accepted and il be in nz to. But its so tough.
Anyone else find that empty swing kinda spooky? Just me? 😟
So did we. It was swinging by itself no joke
Napier is way better! :-)
LOL. That’s where my dad is from. Gotta do a Napier video soon
South Island man all I will say
Where do you recommend Jim?
I don't think that's a dog bed, lol
Perhaps not 😂
Is your dog a kiwi dog or American
He’s Sri Lankan - check the rescue video on my channel
Alex bro , pls adopt me☺😍
Can you stop showing other immigrants how to shift here. We are full, unless you’re a refugee or brain surgeon etc.