Reunion , Reunion, welcome to Reunion

SO the title says it all! We've arrived in one piece, minus a board bag belonging to Dan Redman, hopefully for his sake it arrives fairly soon. Had our first day in a pretty fun right wedge, small but rippable, an extra 2 feet on it will be amazing, swell charts are looking pretty decent so let's hope it happens. This island definitely has setups, crazy, place is beautiful, it is hot, there are volcanoes and waterfalls, urchins and locals, full island living. We're staying right at St Leu, as we open our eyes we're looking straight into the lineup at St Leu, pretty damn awesome! The bunk beds and 4 sweaty guys sharing a room aint, but I think the waves we could score really could make it well worth it. We're here on a photo trip, myself, Dan Redman and Dale Staples are shooting with Greg Ewing for the mags, Jason Hearn is shooting for his movie, the African Project, check out his blog theafricaprojectfilm.blogspot.com/and Andy Davis from Mahala is writing the story, very cool crew!

I've attached a pic from this morning shot by Greg Ewing, hopefully there is a lot more to come...

See ya soon

D

So I've been to the States and back, I did get affected by the Volcano once again, my LAX to Munich flight was cancelled as I got to the airport but luckily for me, they re routed me via London to get home... I guess my status with Star Alliance came through for me again cause they even put me on another airline with wasn't one of their partners.. crazy! But I'm not complaining one bit!

SO the States was fun, the surf pumped, around 4 ft and just so rippable, Trestles is definitely up there with being one of the most rippable waves in the world, no doubt. The standard of surfing at that event was also amazing, the guys definitely stepped it up and produced some extremely good, solid , explosive surfing, great to see and surf against. When guys around you are surfing well it seems it pushes your level up too cause I felt i did my best surfing so far this year at this event. The waves had a big part of it though, it was pretty hard not to surf well with the waves being so good, just shows you when surfers are presented with good waves, the results show and the standard jumps leaps and bounds. Wish some more companies would take note and put their events at better spots and better times of year, not just at when they'll sell the most comp tee's...

So I'm back in Durban now for 2 weeks, got Shaun Gossmann's wedding next weekend, he's asked me to be his best man, which i'm truely honoured, so next weekend should be a super fun time. He's having his wedding at Tala Game Reserve, just inland from Durban, which is a great venue. And then the following weekend, heading off to Reunion for my first surf trip in a long time, we're shooting for Hearn's new African project movie and for the mags. Should be really fun, good crew going, Dan Redman, Dale Staples and myself, and we're probably meeting up with Romain Cloite from Reunion there who'll be able to show us one or two spots that we probably wouldn't have been allowed at, can't wait!

Been getting some really fun wedges the last few days in Umhlanga, seriously been surfing with maybe 2 - 3 guys in the water and the craziest punt sections, so fun. Gosh it's good to be home, fun waves, no crowds, with family and friends, I can't complain!

Davey