Kandui Surf Resort Mentawai Islands
3rd August 2011
Our first red blob arrived today. The call was Kandui’s. Conditions were clean and sets were going almost double overhead on the sets, although there were admittedly not that many of the bombs like that. We had some friends from Electric stop by to give us some sunglasses and Peligroso Tequila yesterday and they were at Kandui’s this morning putting on a show. Mark Heely got a ridiculous stand up barrel and came out smiling! We can’t post the pictures of those guys in respect to professionals who are photographing them for magazines and/or ads, but I’m quite sure you will be seeing that wave in your near future in a mag or video. There were a couple of top notch photographers, friends of ours that have stayed here before, taking water shots and they were in just in the right position to get what has to be some pretty sick stuff. I don’t know how they do it with a wave that long and swimming against a current, but they always seem to manage to be in the right spot! Kaliang also got the best barrel I have ever seen him get. It was a long one and he came out! Photo attached. Good job Kaliang! We had a very low tide in the afternoon so we were confined to surfing 4 Bobs and Karambat and Aframes, but the winds were pretty much non existent so it was a lot of fun. The swell is suppose to back off a bit tomorrow, but we hope not too much! And we are still tracking our second and bigger swell due to start arriving on the 6th, but really kicking in on the 7th and 8th.
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