There's a strange romance on the Wellington South Coast…
 
An unhinged neoprene dream in screaming gales…
 
A train wreck of surfers, pedigree pooches and waves like cabbage… 
 
Part ode, part prison diary, GNARLY WELLYS is a bleak, brutal and sometimes beautiful look at the relationship between surfer and surf at Lyall Bay in 2021.
 
A turbulent 33 poems combined with 7 rolls of film to document a year of wave riding in Pōneke over 124 pages.
 
By Sam Ezra.