Circum New Zealand kayaker Tim Taylor is making the most of the good weather as he heads for Westport today.

He met up with his support crew at Ross south of Greymouth, the first time they have seen him since Christmas.

Tim Taylor with Paul Caffyn in Greymouth.

While in Greymouth Tim also met its mayor, Tony Kokshoorn, and Paul Caffyn the kayaker whose voyage is one of Tim's inspirations to become the first person to kayak around New Zealand in a single voyage.

Paul kayaked round the South Island in 1978, the North Island the following year, and Stewart Island also in 1979.

The support crew picked Tim up near Ross and returned him to the beach on Sunday, but the surf was still too big to get out.

'It's a different surf down here,” says his mum, Lyn.

'It's up in the air, then thundering straight down and the currents don't take you in to shore, they take you straight out.

'When Tim landed south of Ross, the surf was so huge he came out of his boat coming in.”

Tim paddled to Greymouth Monday, stayed overnight and headed north again on Tuesday.

'The weather is perfect down there it's hot and sunny and once you get outside the surf the sea is quite calm,” says Lyn 'They can't believe the weather because they are not used to it.”

There's a group of people waiting for him at Westport and Tim's got a speaking engagement lined up for when he arrives in Nelson.

On the plane down Lyn met a Nelson deputy principal who wants Tim to speak about his travels to the students.