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JUST DREAMING
Come surf the best barrels in the world with no crowds in Indonesia. West Java and Panaitan Island are located off Java’s south-west tip and are home to the infamous One Palm Point and Apocolypse and various other world-class waves. While most of the surfing world is focused on the Mentawai's, West Java has numerous perfect waves with half the crowds. For proof of the perfection and beauty of this nature preserve pick up a copy of Timmy Turner’s Second Thoughts or Ombak.
"Captain Johnny is the best skipper in the world! He got us barreled everyday!" Dr. Paul Rogers, Australia
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TRIP REPORT |
12th - 21st July 2011
The swell reports was showing a consistent push of SW swell for the better part of the trip. We headed for the mainland spots with only a small push at the start of the trip. This worked out well with small clean warm up waves for the boys to get comfortable with the reef. With the swell increasing we moved out to the bay and surfed pussy's with some nice long ones and a few turns to be had.
With the olds trades up a bit we moved around to the west side of the island. We rocked up with a nice surprise of head and a half lefts and rights offshore all day and all of us rotating between the left and the right and with some nice tubes to be had. We stayed and surfed over head lefts and rights over this side for a few days and waited for the next SW push.
We woke up in the morning and saw an increase of swell so we had a good surf and moved around into the bay again. As we came in closer to 1 palm we had a double hit on the rods and then 2 of the boys proceeded to pull in two 10 kg+ yellow fin tuna. Sashimi was on the cards for that afternoon. We pulled up to 1 palm with the odd 3 foot set rolling down the point so we ended up out there for look. We surfed until dark that afternoon with a couple of nice tubes ridden.
With a drop in the swell we moved back over to the mainland and surfed until the our 2nd last day, and then the call was made to check out krakatoa. As we steamed up there we landed a massive wahoo, 5 foot long and 20kg+. We got to krakatoa that night and it was blowing its lid, shooting out red lava rock around every 10 minutes. Next day we had a brief walk on the island as it was very active we made it quick and only watched a few irruptions from the base of the mountain.
Waves every day this trip with some nice fish landed and krakatoa doing its things, boys were super stoked. Then it was time to head to Jakarta, which is not always a bad thing.
Oliver Bir
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TRIP REPORT |
Just wanted to touch base and thank you both for all your help and support in getting our trip up and running.
The boys had an awesome time, and while we didn’t get a ‘swell’ as such, we surfed at least twice a day in 2 – 4 foot waves that were above and beyond the standard we would surf at home.
A couple of the last days around at Rangers Station were super fun and everyone got some great barrels. Will shoot through a big folder full of pictures from the whole trip once the boys have finished sorted and editing them. Everyone was stoked!!!
The crew were complete legends, the food was amazing, accommodation was perfect and the area itself is amazing! Everyone is super keen to get back over there, that’s for sure!
Just wanted to let you know again that it was awesome and thank you once again! Can’t wait to get back over there!
Ryan Jones
Marketing Coordinator
Australia’s Surfing Life
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TRIP REPORT |
We arrived at Panaitan and weather was calm, we had a good trip down with calm winds the whole way down.
The trip started off with some 3 foot, super clean Napalm. It was a great intro for the boys. The next day we were expecting a large swell and the boys were keen for some bigger Napalm which we scored....solid 5 foot, heavy barrels, the same day we surfed 5 foot One Palm, heaps of barrels for everybody.
Next 2 days we surfed Napalms and Tetes, clean 3 foot conditions. The winds were good for the rights as well, and we surfed Illusions 3 to 4 foot clean and doing its thing. Apocalypse was 6 foot solid, heavy barrels, but only broke briefly due to a wind change.
The rest of the trip saw us doing the rounds of the bay with great head and and half high waves at Napalms in the mornings then across to the rights when the tide dropped for great long walls at Illusions.
We ended up with 2 great surfs at Apocalypse, one was 4 foot and super fun. The next was 6 foot plus grinding barrels which were as wide as they were high.....very impressive!
This was a ten day trip and saw the boys score great clean waves everyday. |
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