Thursday, June 19, 2008
Cranking G land and 96 Bintangs
This computer took 15 minutes to load this website!! As far as the Bintangs (the local beer ) we recieved 96 "free" beers with our room for 4 people! Georgie, I need help drinking these cold things!! Trust me I am doing my best. We stayed at a place in Kutsa called Un's hotel for a 5 am wake up call for a 15 minute bus ride to catch a boat at one of the local beaches. It was still dark as we boarded the 30 ft triple 200 hp yamaha speed boat with about 10 others for the 30 mph 2.5 hr ride. The ride was very pleasant ending running between the waves to cross the reef to get to the beach. On the beach was an old old 30-40 yr old hand crank truck that we got in the back for a ride to Bobby's camp. The nearest village is 30 miles away via horrible road. I have never seen a jungle but this seems real to me. I can't believe anyone even hacked out the path for the road but when you see the surf and you are a surfer you would know. Bobby's is like a deluxe summer camp for surfers although there are surfers friends and girlfriends here. Jonathan and I went out for a surf after breakfast. Jonathan snagged a couple but it was hard to surf. Solid 6-8 feet with monster sets rolling through every once and a while. We came in at low tide so it was a 1/4 mile walk across the inner reek instead of the 15 minute paddle out like 2 hrs before. The Indonesians smoke like there are no health risks! In the afternoon we went to a place called 20 - 20's due to the 20 minute walk each direction but we renamed it 40-40's. There we caught low tide conditions with a long walk across the reef and more sea urchins than I have ever seen in my life. J , D and myself caught some fun fast lefts. They had a full moon party complete with local band and 4 traditional dancers. A nice evening with some poeple having a little too much fun. If you can't tell we all like G-land and are staying another 3 days if possible. A couple of days ago Jonathan broke (schreadded) his board at some barrelling right . Really it was not his board and we were going to tell Nick C that his cord broke and he never saw the board again. We gave it to a surf shop that was going to repair it and give it to some kid that does not have a board. We did find a good back up Simon Anderson (boards are hard to find that fit a kid jonathans size) at one of the local shops in surf central Kuta. Surfing is very respected in this part of the world!! Unlike Wrightsville Beach ! Evidently Taj Barrow and Luke Steadman were here yesterday and surfing bit we missd them. This morning Jonathan said he had one of the best surf sessions of his life. He was charging on the bigger ones with pics to show. I was very happy with my 5 waves and is one or my better sessions too. Yes 5 waves can be a very great session especially if you never eat it or get the thrashing of your life and get to the beach in one piece at one of the Narliest lefts in the world. Mary Anne is enjoying the surf camp too. The crowd in the water is very pleasant much to my surprise and not that crowded. Even the Brazialians were nice. now that is a change! Dillon and I spent 2 hrs walking the reef at low tide this aft. I told him it was better that any semester he could ever spend in biology class at school. Pardon the ramble but this is what i do the best . I am scared to spell/grammer check this for being scares of loosing it, so just enjoy for what it is. Thanks for reading Jim
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