JUNE/JULY 2008 – General recollection

After the trip to the Mentawais the months of June and July didn’t produce anything meaningful...we had a swell of good intensity in the middle of June when Uluwatu broke with 8 to 10 feet at the Outside Corner and at the Bommie and waves like Padang, Deserts and G-land gave the surfers a warming welcome despite the wild crowd that was registered at all of those spots.

Besides this isolated swell and some days of medium waves the average has been days of strong winds, few small swells, some rain and completely irregular weather for this time of the year…it looks like the effects of a global warming are becoming every day more visible...

Apart of that we had some sad facts happening around here such as the fire on a cheap backpacker that use to accommodate a lot of Brazilian surfers at Padang and, more recently, a big fishing boat that grounded at Padang-padang right on the Outside very close to the take off zone of the wave almost halfway through the last section where the best barrel of Padang breaks wich can change the wave’s formation radically and for sure will cause serious damage to the reef.

At this moment the island prepares itself to receive the WCT circus with the world surfing elite that soon will arrive on the island and we hope they take with them all the trash they will produce on this period of almost 20 days they will be around and leave some help to the local community…I will enjoy and take a trip to some other islands to run away from this wild crowd that should be on its way right now…

Good waves to all of you!!!