When nobody's around, and you're out paddling.

"So here's my number, so call me maybe!!"

Every bloke knows the feeling… You're listing to music in the car and something truly girly comes on the radio, you love the song, but you're too scared to turn it up in case someone else hears you listening to it!

Peter Ralph didn't have that problem, he was mid way through his 29 day paddle up the North Island of New Zealand when he found one of those songs. Carly Rae Jespens "Call me Maybe", is up there with songs sung by Taylor Swift, Five Seconds of Summer (5SOS as the kids say these days) and for those who don't relate to the current pop artists of today, the Spice Girls. What else was there to do on a rainy day, in the middle of nowhere, standing on a Starboard SUP with nobody around, but to belt it out!

'Cape to Cape' is not the name of this song, but it is the name of Peter's awareness raising campaign to shed some light on New Zealand governments plans to sell their deep sea beds to Oil prospectors. offshore drilling in New Zealands pristine surroundings.

"Each year the NZ government release areas of our exclusive economic zone (EEZ) know as "blocks" for oil companies to bid on, the government assesses those bids then awards exploration permits. Exploration can include aeromagnetic surveys, sampling, seismic surveys and well drilling." Explains Pete, "Seismic airguns are used to find oil and gas deep underneath the ocean floor. Airguns are so loud that they disturb, injure or kill marine life, harm commercial fisheries, and disrupt coastal economies. These blasts are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days and weeks at a time, and harm marine mammals, fish and other wildlife. Impacts include temporary and permanent hearing loss, abandonment of habitat, disruption of mating and feeding, even death from beach strandings and and decompression sickness"

Hopefully some of those effected marine animals got to listen to this along the way however, as Pete paddled up the coast with his portable speaker blaring…

Check out the hilarious video by Peter Ralph, shot on his awareness raising paddle 'Cape to Cape', a 700km paddle up the North island of New Zealand, and to find out more about his efforts to stop deep sea oil exploration in New Zealand , visit his website.