Kandui Surf Resort Mentawai Islands
May 11th surf report
Rasta, Donovan, and their crew left today. This Billabong trip to Kandui was
looking like a pretty average one in terms of surf until the stars finally aligned
on the last two days and we surfed some pretty sizable, and sometimes pretty epic,
Bankvaults. Sunday was as leash snapping, board breaking day with some double
overhead ++ sets coming through. It was clean around the middle half of the day,
but the morning and afternoon were a bit funky and that added to the entertainment
of the peanut gallery with every nice wipeout! Monday was dropping, but there were
plenty of sizable sets and it was really clean. Around midday, the wind switched
and some of the guys were lucky enough to surf some overhead, albeit inconsistent,
Kandui’s. After the wind switched again, I talked our guests Kevin and Tom into
skipping lunch and heading back to Bankvaults . I’d never eat lunch again if I
could get waves like that every time! No one was out,
conditions were about as good as you could imagine with light offshores, and there
were still sets going several feet overhead. There were some absolutely perfect
barrels and we had it to ourselves for over an hour before anyone else showed up.
Nice!
One of the highlights of the trip for me was watching Rasta surf. I hope you have
the pleasure of watching him in legit surf like Bankvault’s or Rifle’s or Kandui’s.
That guy is amazing! I can count on one hand how many people on the planet that
have as much wave knowledge and athletic ability as Rasta. Throw in his unique
style and you have a show on your hands! Go out of your way if you ever get the
chance to see him surf. It’s unbelievable. Another highlight was one morning
sitting in the restaurant, drinking coffee and settling into the day. The
restaurant just had such a good vibe and then I realized that the background music
we were listening to was Donovan strumming his guitar and softly singing. One of
the guests looked at me and said, “How cool is this!” Pretty cool, my friend,
pretty cool.
Our new group got here today and it looks like there will be lots of swell in their
future.
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