Monday, July 31, 2006

The perfect weather from the weekend continues, but the swell fades. The weakening east swell is only managing 2 foot sets at exposed beaches…whilst south facing Bondi is only producing dribbles for beginners. Winds are currently from the NW and will swing SW later today. Max. land temp 19, water 18, high tide 12:15pm, low […]

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Sometimes it happens when you come back from the islands…warm water, silky surfaces, and a whole-lotta-good waves. Diagnosed as Post-Mentawai_Blues, your boards don’t seem to get out of their covers for sometime. Nothing seems good enough. Kinda like eating an upstairs chicken snitz at brh, then down stairs chicken mudflap just doesn’t cut it anymore […]

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Couple waves worthy of a slash kids. It’s small (2-3 feet) and very inconsistent but I witnessed a couple little lefties and righties with some resemblance of a wall this morning. Tomorrow should be a whole new picture with swell doubling overnight. She’s nice and glassy early today …with not too many folk around. Gotta […]

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Where did it all go? Yesterdays decent chunky swell has dissipated overnight leaving 3 foot scraps down at Bond*age this morning. Quite surprised how fast it dropped… Before you all get too depressed don’t worry – its coming back on Wednesday, bigger and better. Glassy conditions this morning – indoesque in fact. Beach was deserted…no […]

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

After traveling 600 nautical miles, burning 6000 litres of diesel, sipping on 300 Bintangs, drinking 15 gallons of water, 160 kit kats, 150 Tim Tams (ok maybe more), surfing 15 surf breaks, this Sumatran surf charter aboard MV Tengirri finishes on a bang with 4 – 6 foot heavy tubing rights. It seems everyone else […]

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Sometimes the planets seem to line up… Alleluia. After motoring all night we’ve anchored at a 6 foot heavy reeling right hander (8 foot sets). The Sun was out (finally), and the winds were pretty much non existent. This wave freight trains along deep reef throwing a thick lip towards the inner section. Probably one […]

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Monday, July 17, 2006

We’ve ended up in the land of the rights – righthanders that is. Indo is famous for its lefts, but we’ve found a group of islands near the equator that are predominantly right – suits me being a natural footer. The promised swell arrived today, not nearly as large as we expected – but still […]

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Friday, July 14, 2006

If you’re not with the program Aquabumps is currently being broadcast from a remote archipelago of islands 100 kms off Sumatra, Indonesia (until the 20th where normal reports from Sydney beaches resume). These images are being beamed back via Telstra Satellite from a rocking boat… So far we’ve had a pretty bad run with conditions […]

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Well it doesn’t happen often – but it’s pretty much flat up here. Yup surfing mecca is having a RDO. The swell magnets are more crowded than Bondi on a peak summers day – orkay, maybe not that bad, but everyone is scrappin’ over 1-2 footers. Dayz like these make living on a boating a […]

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Writing an email which is read by 20,000 can be a daunting task. Freaks me out at times. It’s even weirder writing it on a rocking boat somewhere in remote Indonesia where only 45 years ago the local people were head hunters, and they still paddle dug out canoes to our boat selling wood carvings […]

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Selamat Pagi. 6am, waking up to the glorious sounds of a stuck anchor wedged deep in the reef, my expectations for a day of size was low – thinking it was dropping off all night. Surprisingly, a very exposed south-west facing left hander was putting on some heat at 4-6 foot…not a sole out. 14 […]

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Monday, July 10, 2006

2degreesSouth111degreesEastWhere the bloody hell are ya? Doesn’t have the same twang not coming from Lara Bingle. Well Aquabumps will be broadcast from a remote archipelago of islands, 100 kilometres off Sumatra, Indonesia for the next week or so. We’re in search of warmer water and tubular perfection which this area consistently produces. After a couple […]

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Monday, July 03, 2006

The weekend’s cheeky lil’ waves continue to work today. It’s even bigger than expected with a slight pulse overnight (shoulder to head high sets). We’re blessed with a SW offshore providing clean surfaces…Bondi had a few – many closing out, but enough to get 1 turn in. Curly, Av, Cronulla should all have waves this […]

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Monday, July 03, 2006

The weekend’s cheeky lil’ waves continue to work today. It’s even bigger than expected with a slight pulse overnight (shoulder to head high sets). We’re blessed with a SW offshore providing clean surfaces…Bondi had a few – many closing out, but enough to get 1 turn in. Curly, Av, Cronulla should all have waves this […]

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