SubscribeMacaroni’s / Mentawai Islands, 2nd March 2010
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Macaronis Resort Report 2nd of March 2010
Hey Crew!!!
Well we’re back with another season at Macas Resort, and crikeys it’s warm over here after 2 months in Tasmania. Got some west coast trips on whilst home and got plenty of crayfish and abolone to go around which I miss the most spending the summer months in Indo. Although always nice to come back and get on to catching some big fish!! Speaking of which, there have been plenty of big GT’s swimming around in the channel on the way into the lagoon the past few days, a good sign for the good times ahead. Also got a new professionally made speargun, so should be able to bring a few home this year!!
I got to Macas last wednesday and have been hard at it marking out our reception building which is going up near the small jetty (with board storage area, accommodation for security and boat drivers, out-door shower for when you get back from the surf and key drop), a lagoon style swimming pool going in beside the cafe and a few other exciting developments coming up, asides from maintenance being done on buildings.
We have our 6.8m aluminum boat being renovated at this moment powered by 115hp (available for charter to breaks further afield than Bat Cave and Greenbush), and we have just purchased a brand new Quintrex 4.2m aluminum run about powered by 40hp, a Quintrex 3.9m aluminum for accessing local breaks and a 3.5m Quintrex that will become the new tender for Indies Explorer, as well as our two traditional dug out long boats.
The surf the last few days has been perfect in the medium size range 3-4ft. I was out at the tower looking at the possibility of puting some lights up for night surfing, and at that time it was a low tide but the waves were absolutely smoking peeling right down the point with absolutely no body out for at least 2-3 hours. The crew from King Milenium being the only boat in the bay, eventually got back out there, seems they must have had a fairly solid morning session!!
The last little swell lasted about 4 days and is a good sign that the roaring forties are kicking back in again sending some long period swells up this way. And on the horrizon we have a week of very long period swells coming up in the 1.6m range @15-19 sec which will no doubt produce Macas perfection for the week ahead, looks like it could be a repeate of last years great start to the season. Unfortunately I’ll be back in Padang departing tomorrow, to get our staffing organised for our opening on March 16, just 2 surfers booked if anybody is interested??? The following week we also have just 8 surfers….. please let us know if you’d like to join us!!
Anyway from 9th of March onwards we’ll have our camera gear out here and will be able to provide some shots of the surf for you to froth over. Shame we havent opened a little earlier, we actually had a cancellation of 12 guys booked for the first two weeks in March and looking at the swell charts its probable they’ll be kicking them selves. Well, except for the group leader who unfortunatley was in a car accident preventing the trip from going ahead, I hope your doing ok TB…!
Macaroni’s Surf Resort, 31st Oct ‘09
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Macaroni’s Surf Resort / Report October ‘09
Hey guys, well we’re on a roll with reports, so thought I might as well keep it going…
Last week we had Alessio, Pedro, Marco, Elisa and Simona arrive from Italy and James from Northern Beaches of Sydney, just 6 guests at the resort plus me Bootsy Cynthya and Damo. [...]
Macaronis Surf Resort (Mentawai islands) Sept ‘09
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Macaronis Resort Report – Sept 2009
Hey guys,
To all those crew out there thinking of heading off on a surf trip in late Sept / Oct, we still have spots available at Macas Resort, with the camp being only half booked up until mid November 2009. So give us a yell if your keen to come [...]
Macaroni Surf Sesort, 13th August ‘09
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Macaronis Resort Surf Report
Hi guys
Well it’s been a couple of weeks since we last dropped you a report, and since then we’ve had some more perfect surf as we now move into August and the middle of the peak surf season.
Last week we had Dustin Hollick and Luke Johansen visit from Tasmania, previous winners of [...]
Macaroni’s Sur resort.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Macaronis Resort Surf Report
Hi Guys
Well we all know it’s been such a long time since our last report, it’s just that we’ve been getting so many great waves up here we have barely had time to do reports for our own website, let alone send them on to Bali Waves. Fortunately Silm being the good [...]
Macaroni’s Surf resort / Mentawai Islands; 20th July ‘09
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Macaronis Resort Surf Report; 20th July 09
Hi Guys
Well we all know its been such a long time since our last report, it’s just that we’ve been getting so many great waves up here we have barely had time to do reports on our own website, let alone send them on to baliwaves.com. Fortunately Silm being [...]
Macaroni Surf resort / Mentawai Islands.
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Macaronis Resort Surf Report 14th of May 2009
Hi guys
We’ve had some super fun waves here over the past fortnight, consistently, with a few good waves also scored at Lances Right all by ourselves and at Greenbush.
The boys on our last trip who were here for 2 weeks, Marco, Rodrigo and Flavio, our new friends from [...]
Macaroni Surf Resort
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Macaronis Resort Surf Report – April 30
Hi guys
We are well over due for a report to Bali Waves, sorry about our brief absence there….
We have been still updating our own website surf report on a regular basis (www.macaronisresort.com/reports.php) but we have been saving some thing special for www.baliwaves.com
Actually to be honest, we’ve been surfing our [...]
Macaroni Surf Report / 30th March ‘09
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Surf update – Sunday 29th of March
Well a lot has happened since our last surf report.
On Thursday 18th we shared surfing at Macaronis with the Barrenjoey crew who were all a good bunch of guys, and the waves were in the 2-3 ft range but really fun, I have added a photo of this day [...]
Huey decides to turn it on !!
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Well last couple of days we have had some very clean and consistent waves in the 4-5 ft range. Conditions have been perfect, with either no wind or light off-shores. It has just been the 3 of us plus the crew aboard Southern Cross which just arrived yesterday. We had a great morning and arvo [...]
Macaronis Resort Report
Friday, February 20th, 2009
MACARONI’S SURF RESORT MENTAWAI ISLANDS
Here we are back with our second report for 2009. Indies Explorer is currently being done up in Padang and as a friend, Matt Graziano, had just arrived in Padang and was headed out for some waves at Macas, I decided to come along too for the trip, especially as a [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – December 9 2008
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Macaronis Resort – 2008 Season Overview… Well the 2008 season started out in a rush as usual, after totally refurbishing the Indies Explorer inside and out after purchasing the boat in late 2007. Indies Explorer has been an excellent addition to Macaronis Resort operation owing to its size and ability to carry large groups and [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – November 2 2008
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Report 27th October 2008 Well it’s been another epic week of surf here at Macas. We had a flat spell the week prior which had the boys heading down to Thunders to get a few, before coming back up to Macas to wait for the new late October swell to arrive. And Huey did not [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – October 22 2008
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Macaronis Resort Report – October 17 Hi guys Well we’ve had an eventful couple of weeks here at Macaronis Resort. We have had the winner of Tasmania’s Rip Curl West Coast Classic competitionvisit, John Kolehmainen, who took out the Macas Resort Grand Prize thisyear. John has been stoked to score a few [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – October 21 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Macaronis Resort Report – October 17 Hi guys Well we’ve had an eventful couple of weeks here at Macaronis Resort. We have had the winner of Tasmania’s Rip Curl West Coast Classic competitionvisit, John Kolehmainen, who took out the Macas Resort Grand Prize thisyear. John has been stoked to score a few [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – October 5 2008
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Hi crew,We’ve had a top week here at Macaronis Resort.Since our last report we headed north to Lances with the guests scoring fun3-4ft lefts and a couple of 3 footers at Bintangs Right as well. The guestswere stoked with the waves and spending a couple of nights aboard ourcharter boat the Laut India. On the [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – October 2 2008
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Hi crew,We’ve had a top week here at Macaronis Resort.Since our last report we headed north to Lances with the guests scoring fun3-4ft lefts and a couple of 3 footers at Bintangs Right as well. The guestswere stoked with the waves and spending a couple of nights aboard ourcharter boat the Laut India. On the [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – September 24 2008
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Macaroni’s Surf Resort ; 22nd Sept 08 Hi Crew Wow, the new swell hit a couple of days ago and we have scored epic waves here at Macaronis. As the swell started to pulse on Sunday it was still very raw making conditions a bit difficult but the guests have still managed to [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – September 20 2008
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Macaroni’s Surf Resort 16th Sept 08 Hi crew, Well we have come to the end of another great trip for those staying at Macaronis Resort. Our old guests are leaving for Sikakap around lunch time today to catch the Ambu Ambu Ferry back to Padang and our new guests have just arrived [...]
Macaronis Mentawai Surf Report – September 13 2008
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Hi Crew, Stickman here after a couple of weeks holiday. After spending the last few months on our island here at Macaronis I was starting to get what we call out here “island feverâ€. Yeah I can here you all saying “ah poor stickman†but it goes to show you CAN get too much [...]
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