The Indies Trader
picked us up from the port to start our
trip. We had a 9 hour haul ahead of us
to the first break, so we all sat up on
the bow of the boat, drank beer and got
ourselves psyched for the next 14 days.
Day 2
Went to sleep to wake up to the most
beautiful set-up I've ever seen. Big
lush jungle in front of us and a 2ft
absolutely perfect right to our left. We
all went for a paddle but it was really
small with heaps of potential. We set
off for a new spot to find some more
swell. Three hours later we came around
the corner of the new island only to see
4ft peeling right handers. We all bailed
off the boat and surfed for the rest of
the day. In the late afternoon John took
me fishing on the tin boat and we were
both very lucky. I got a 15kg Barracuda
and he got a 25kg Kingfish. What a day! |
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Day 3
Woke early to the boat rolling a lot
more. The swell was up! 4-6ft and some
of the best rights I've seen in a long
time. Pretty fat, but very smackable, we
each had two surfs and everyone had a
lot of fun! We are now going back to the
first reef as the swell has picked up.
Just before dark we arrived and the
waves are small but dead perfect. You
can see how sick it would be if there
were more swell.
Day 4
Surfed all day at the same spot, had
lots of fun until the swell dropped off
completely.
Day 5
Moved in the middle of the night and
woke to see a left hand reef, but no
swell and cross shore winds. Moved after
a few of the guys had a surf. On our way
we come across an island with some
really insane white, so we stopped and
went diving and fishing. Mick and myself
took the tinny across to another island
were we found some really fun little
peaks. The big boat came across and
anchored there, we all surfed till dark!
We pulled anchor and started the 12 hour
journey to somewhere else.
Day 6
Woke up to the most perfect left I've
seen. Had some nice barrels, it was only
3ft but long perfect lefts and I had
lots of fun.
Day 7
Still at this place and the waves are
really small.
Day 8
Swell jumped overnight but very fat
waves, nothing great.
Day 9
Arrived somewhere new but no swell,
spent the whole day in some village on
the boat refuelling and getting some
supplies. Anchored that night close to
where we refuelled and the games began.
Gigs and Jason decided they would drink
the swell up - six bottles of Rum later
- enough said.
Next morning no sign of swell but a few
hangovers on board! Motored through some
amazing islands but we battled to find
any waves. Eventually found a small reef
with a few lefts 2-3ft fun little waves.
Moved on hoping for something else in
the area but nothing. Woke up to see the
first real island with surf camps and
lots of people. Small little rights, you
could see the potential but no swell. We
went onto land found a taxi and got a
ride into town. Dane managed to find
some DVD's which he had a few problems
with. At the end of the day we found a
sick set up but once again no swell! We
were now off to somewhere else hoping
for a few waves on our last day!
Woke up to really fun 3-5ft waves a
couple of little barrels and probably
the best wave we surfed the whole trip.
Went scuba diving in the afternoon -
insane! Next morning arrived back at the
place we got on the boat and off to the
airport.
The trip was insane even though we
didn't get the surf we hoped for. The
boat was something else and everything
we did and saw was insane.
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