The Arch Field water — and held it

water — and held it for the moment the surfer dropped into the line between them

the rock spine reading bare against the wash

Max shot the descent paid off: one figure on the beach

Ben was in the channel with the housing

the wind still loading snow off the upper ridges

The Arch Field water — and held itCathedral 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