Man inexplicably sells surfer’s dream for peanuts!
One month ago began the sales campaign for 123 Station Road, Kaikoura, New Zealand, an epic and impossible-to-replicate beachfront spread near “the Rincon of the South Pacific” with a price tag of under one-million American dollars.
Here, in this little South Island town, population two thousand souls, the surf identity Negatron, who is famous for his ability to manipulate a hundred different opinions into one coherent narrative on the BeachGrit commentary stream, had, inexplicably I thought, put up his pristine five-and-a-half acres.
He described it thus,
“One paddock over a fence to one of the most consistent waves on the East Coast with multiple boulder bottomed peaks and a 10 minute walk along the railways tracks to a right point that’s been called the Rincon of the South Pacific.”
The joint was on the market he said partly due to divorce, partly ‘cause he didn’t want to owe the bank money and because “five acres is 4.9 acres more than I need in my life.”
“Set on 2.23ha (5.51acres) surrounded by approximately 15 acres of protected native bush of which 2.5 acres are encompassed within this property,” ran the sale’s pitch. “A true rarity this close to the ocean on the east coast, it enhances the natural landscape & offers a sheltered oasis from any sea breeze. This is home to many species of native Flora & Fauna, a wonderful place to explore to the sounds of the native birdlife. If you are a keen surfer, the famous surf breaks are only a hop, skip and a jump away. This once in a lifetime location makes you have the sense you are somewhere truly special, evoking the feeling of being on holiday permanently…is this your lifestyle dream?”
Anyway, epic, and, as you might imagine, offers came hard, although this being New Zealand, it topped out at one-point-five million New Zealand shekels or a little under a mill US.
A wild bargain, though happily sold to a surfing family who plan to use it as a vacation home.
Negatron, meanwhile, is renting a sweet little joint in town and waiting for his next real estate move.
