back again.
Greetings from the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia, some 90 nautical miles south of Sumatra. I know what you’re all thinking "what…again?" yep…again. No folks. I don’t have any illegitimate Indonesia kids running around up here. I just couldn’t help myself when I got wind of a few available spots on the MV Tengirri power cat. To kick this tour off we’ve had great waves (standard). Mostly around 4-6 foot everyday, perfect 33 degrees of sunshine and that clear-clear water that I chase everywhere. Heaven.
Up here they’re still telling stories of the last monster swell 3 weeks ago. Some calling it the best it’s been in 20 years. Our Skipper saw reefs fire up that are normally subdued. The last time we looked at the swell charts we had something solid towards the end of this week. Some fun to be had and hopefully some good pics.
Legendary Jim Banks, one of the original Aussie explorers who found many breaks in Indonesia is up here showing us he’s still got what it takes to pull into a HT’s intimidating pipe. (note:He’s a good ole Aquabumps subscriber as well)
To put things in perspective, these reports are broadcast from the fly bridge of a charter boat via satellite. Thanks to our best buddies at TELSTRA, I can hook up to the internet via Satellite pretty much anywhere on the globe (wireless networks aren’t common up here…there still working on the electricity thing). Uploading can sometimes take up to 30 minutes to push 200kb worth of pics to outta space, then back down to Texas, then pinged back to Sydney to be spat over the globe (thanks Mad dog). So enjoy the pics from this tropical paradise. Junpa lagi::uge
