Thursday, June 17, 2010

Sri Lanka

Well I'm super stoked to be writing this cause yesterday's drive from Colombo to Aragum Bay in Sri Lanka was HEAVY!!! Seriously, 9 hr mission from the West coast to the East coast filled with bumps, near death experiences and constant blind rise over takings... I'm kinda keen to look at trying to get a chopper out of here back to Colombo when the event ends, would definitely be a sick experience and a way safer means of transport back!!!
Enough about that, so I'm here in the South East part of Sri Lanka for the Sri Lankan Airlines Pro, 6* WQS event being held at Aragum Bay. It's a pretty fun , playful right hand point, very similar to say Ponto do Ouro and snapper mixed, but with less power and way warmer water! Surfed another spot earlier in the day about 20 min drive away from Aragum that reminded me so much of Mexico. The place is kinda just filled with these right hand sand points, pretty damn sick. And it looks like there's a little swell arriving Saturday for the event too which should produce some good waves and good surfing. Actually frothing to see what this point does with a little extra juice and size on it...Could just be on fire!!!
Will try post up some pics of this joint on my next post, the beaches are beautiful here, the accomo we're in is basic but the crew running it are super cool and make pretty good food!.
One thing i can say is it's bloody hot here!
Peace out

DW

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Pics from the last few days...

Here are a couple of pics I've taken the last few days here in Reunion...



Friday, June 4, 2010

St Leu...

Did a full day of surfing out front of our spot at St Leu today, some super fun waves, pretty good size, a lot of waves ridden and good times had. Was great to get out there again and see what St Leu has to offer. The swell direction wasn't perfect but we had 4-6ft waves, not too many guys and locals out which was a pleasure and some pretty damn fine sections over a shallow reef. When you get a wave from the top to the bottom of the point, can end up being about 300 metres long. And they're expecting more swell on the weekend, some one just told a 20 second period on its way, haha, sounds like a dungeons swell but anyway, will see what happens over the next few days...

Here's a pic of me from Greg Ewing, shot from the water this arvo, taken off the africaprojectfilm.blogspot.com Check out this blog for more on our trip here in Reunion...

Later

DW

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Busy times...

Well we've been pretty busy the last two days here in Reunion! Yesterday started off with a super early rise to make our way up this massive mountain range, we only got out of first gear a couple times due to the windiness of the road.. But it was well worth the mission, we overlooked pretty much the whole of Reunion from our vantage point, was so sick, seemed like something out of Lord of the Rings with the valleys and mountains, was really a cool experience, one which I was hesitating to do before but was glad I did it when I was there. Then made our way over to St Pierre for a surf, pretty fun waves , a rippable right wedgy wave, but had a fair few crew on it.

Today was a pretty solid day shooting/filming wise... 3 surfs, one pretty long one at St Leu in the morning, fun cause the swell had just started to build and you could kinda get a glimpse at what this left had to offer. 2nd surf was at a sick left barrel, full on 6 ft freight trains, kinda reminded me of cloudbreak, but we got totally hassled beyond belief by the 7 boogie boarders out there, 10 of us all together in the lineup, and only 7 getting waves, was so messed up. We moved over to the right across the reef pass, i pretty much got the worst beating I've had in over two years, Dan broke his board, a water photog broke his camera and pretty much a waste of time...

3rd surf was at this crazy right that apparently you're not allowed to surf at cause it's a national park, which was quite unique. It definitely has potential, couple solid ones started coming in towards the end of the surf with the swell finally arriving . Dale broke his board here, couple barrels had and all in all a solid day at the office.. Haha you probably thinking, 3 surfs, hard day at the office..please, you probably right but I'm pretty knackered writing this now, swell looks good for tomorrow and I'm sure we're in for a few more days like this last...

Here's a pic from the mountains...

See ya

D