Kandui Surf Resort, Mentawai islands. July 19th surf report The surf really dropped off overnight. No worries, we were still buzzing from yesterday’s barrel session at Rifles. The winds were back out of the southeast at around 5 mph. The boys eventually went over to Pitstops. It was pretty small, probably waist high, so it wasn’t long before they pulled anchor and headed for Beng Beng. It was only about chest high over there, but conditions were good so they got some fun ones. The girls hit Hideaways first thing and got some shoulder high waves, and then went to Beng Beng as well. The winds turned west about midday. 4 Bobs started cleaning up and it wasn’t long before the girls were out there getting some head high waves with the steep south angle of the swell hitting the reef nicely. They had it to themselves so it was pretty fun. Late in the afternoon some of the guys went to Nipusi to see if it was clean enough to get a couple waves with a little more size. It was a little bumpy with the 5 mph or so west winds, but it was 2 or 3 feet overhead on the sets and there were only a few guys out so it was plenty fun. We are hoping for a little westish swell to start showing by tomorrow afternoon to get us by until some bigger stuff is forecast to arrive
Kandui Surf Resort, Mentawai islands. July 18th surf report ; Woke up this morning to sunny skies and glassy seas. It looked like there were still some waves up at Rifles so it wasn’t too long before we were in a boat and heading out. I was surprised, pleasantly, to see that the waves were even bigger than yesterday with sets going 4 feet over head or so. It was glassy and it was barreling! Everybody got some good ones before the wind started to come up a bit out of the south in the late morning, blowing it out a little. We all headed in and hoped that the wind would switch later. We got our wish! The wind kept clocking around more and more and by the time we finished lunch it was blowing straight offshore at Rifles! It was only team Kandui out there just about the entire afternoon. The sketchy, low tide may have had something to do with that, but we were getting so shacked we didn’t care. It was one of those sessions when everyone was getting barreled on just about every wave. 2, 4, 6, 8 seconds plus in the beautiful, crisp tubes the offshore winds were producing. Again, the Billabong girls were scoring and Rasta got some mental ones. The lighting wasn’t so good, but D Hump got some good shots that I hope we can share with you soon. Sick ones! We surfed until we just couldn’t paddle into another one. Me and Phil were the last two out. We had to come in with about 20 minutes of light left just because we blew our last waves so badly do to exhaustion! It was a hell of a session. That will be enough to keep us happy until our next swell. Expecting smaller surf tomorrow.
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