Mentawai Islands Mentawai Islands No. 6991

Thursday, 1 May 2008

Earthquake Island
This morning we motored south to an area that I did not know existed in the island chain. We came across a small island, the size of the Sydney Cricket Grounds…pristine calm beach on one side, crankin’ 4-5 foot barrelling left off the other (and a little hut in the middle). Mystery island…population 3. Not another boat in sight. Doesn’t get much better than this….

The Mentawai Islands sit on volatile dirt. September 13th, 2007 a massive earthquake rocked this area. It measured 8.4 on the Richter scale. Apparently we’re close to the epicentre and you can see the effects on the local islands – reefs have changed, breaks aren’t the same…and some islands are raised up 1 metre above sea level…like our island today…
Adios, ugios

Mentawai Islands Mentawai Islands No. 6992
Mentawai Islands Mentawai Islands No. 6993
Mentawai Islands Mentawai Islands No. 6994
Mentawai Islands Mentawai Islands No. 6995
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