Airport Reef

 After the partying was out of the system, the waves started rolling in. I spent a lot of time surfing out at the airport reefs. Probably my favorite spot to surf in Indo so far. You can just grab a boat from the end of Kuta beach and it will drop you off about 1km out at sea where the waves are breaking. There are many spots to choose from, I've only surfed three of the five.

When you are finished your surf session you just flag a boat down and get a ride back in. When it's not busy they aren't running in and out too often so it's not uncommon to get stuck out there for hours:

This was after the first time I got stuck out at Middles with Duncan and Eddy.

 

 Once the trade winds started blowing you could sure notice a difference in the water temperature. I was cold surfing, actually getting numb hands some days. With the colder water brought on the jellyfish. They come up from the bottom to soak up some of the sun. The first day wasn't too bad, maybe got stung once while surfing, but then paddling in from the boat Keri, Alex and I got hammered by them.  I took one down the shorts. 

 

 

  The following day we surfed again, not knowing what we were getting into. We got off the boat and started paddling to the break, I remember making a joke, "Whoever gets stung first wins." About 4 seconds later Alex screamed like a girl. Followed by a shout from Keri, and then of course me, and then Eddy. It was the wrong day to not wear a shirt. We eventually made our way to the break, and noticed hundreds of jelly fish surrounding us.

It would have been funny to be out there and hear four guys, the only ones out, screaming like 4 girls. After a few minutes Eddy paddled over to Insides, Keri, Alex and I stayed at Kuta Reef, and later Eddy had told us he could hear us from a couple hundred meters away shouting like girls. Apparently he wasn't even getting stung over there, unfair. 

 

 Here's one arm, didn't manage to get a photo of my back, stomach, armpit, legs or ass. Yes that's right, one of the little fuckers made it up my shorts, glad it took the outside route if you know what I mean. 

A few days later Eddy and I took our chances and went out again. Thank God there were no jellies, unfortunately word had caught on and we were surfing with a crew of 28 people. 200 meters to the right Insides was breaking and there was no one on it, we paddled over and just the two of us shared waves for maybe 15 minutes until the others caught on and a few more paddled over. After one of the longer surfs I'd had out there my arms turned to Jello and we waited for the boat. It came eventually, but didn't stop and pick us up, go figure, there were about 7 people in total and no one saw us flagging it down. So we were stuck until another one finally came. 

 

That was from Insides. 

And here is my most prized possession:

 

My leash tan.