10 minutes from my house to Croyde (the finest beach break in the UK?!)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7OrdOYiL._SL500_AA240_.jpgAnyone read it? Any good?
Quote from: SA Chris on April 22, 2008, 04:06:28 pmhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7OrdOYiL._SL500_AA240_.jpgAnyone read it? Any good?I picked it up the other day.. pretty good thus far... I can trade it with you when i have finished if your interested
anyone got any pearls of wisdom for my first Indo trip. Good hostels spots etc.
Quote from: curly ben on April 28, 2008, 09:33:21 pmanyone got any pearls of wisdom for my first Indo trip. Good hostels spots etc.Where are you going?
Quote from: curly ben on April 28, 2008, 09:30:56 pmQuote from: SA Chris on April 22, 2008, 04:06:28 pmhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z7OrdOYiL._SL500_AA240_.jpgAnyone read it? Any good?I picked it up the other day.. pretty good thus far... I can trade it with you when i have finished if your interestedSounds good. Got Eddie would go,.... Captain Zero, or Magic Carpet if you want a swap.Check Pm
Off to Bali first. Catch up with a friend... then gland? maybe Nias. very loose plans. very excited tho. Not been surfing for couple o months tho, been landlocked studying/working.
Quote from: curly ben on May 05, 2008, 08:57:49 pmOff to Bali first. Catch up with a friend... then gland? maybe Nias. very loose plans. very excited tho. Not been surfing for couple o months tho, been landlocked studying/working.Nice to have such a flexible schedule! Oldfella from off here is now in Oz but was planning a G-Land trip sometime this Summer so he might have some info on where to stay. I've heard Nias and the Hikano's were quite damaged by the two Tsunami's and aren't what they used to be... maybe Laykey might be a better choice? I'm off on a 2 week boat trip to the Banyaks and Simulue a week on Wednesday so have been watching the charts and weather forecast with interest.
16th May? We're heading out on the 14th but we'll be a few hundred K's away in Northwest Sumatra on this boat http://www.banyakislands.com/ for a couple of weeks getting some uncrowded perfection. If you were hoping for an easy start you might be in for a shock judging by Surflines forecast from this morning. :-)Extended Forecast Outlook:Note: all dates and times are local Indonesian time. Surfline offers this forecast on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.The South Indian Ocean is having another active fall season (only after a very strong summer storm track) and we are expecting the storm track to stay active. We had a small but fairly strong fetch in the SW Indian Ocean and this looks to send in some building head high plus SW groundswell for Thursday, the 8th, and then we will be expecting mostly chest to head high plus SW swell into Friday, May 9th. We had a solid storm system down under earlier in the week and we will see some building longer period SW groundswell for late Friday and this swell will peak into Saturday and stay strong into Sunday morning with head high plus to double overhead surf from the Mentawais to Bali and the premier SW facing reefs should see sets in the triple overhead range.Further out, we will see a few more strong but smaller scale storm systems move through down under over the next several days and our next SW groundswell will build in on Monday for Java with more head high plus surf and getting stronger into the afternoon with sets running around the double overhead mark and this should stay strong into early Tuesday for Eastern Java/Bali. Another solid SW groundswell will most likely be in the water for Wednesday with some larger surf and then fading but still head high plus to overhead surf would settle in for Thursday, May 15th. The long range models are showing one more strong system down under and this would set up some more solid SW to SSW swell for around late Thursday/Friday, May 16th."Ha ha you have provoked me into more pool sessions in preparation for the madness of indo. That website is rather neat! looks a top outfit.