The next couple days we spent surfing Mawi. It was only about 16 km's away but the drive took just under an hour. I thought I'd seen bad roads before, nothing like this. I honestly don't think you could have taken a car on this route. Kent and I cruised out one day with Anja and Courtney, and the next just Courtney. Here they are stopped at a local gas station:
Although the road itself sucked, there was some pretty awesome scenery, and the kids from the villages were awesome, yelling "Hi, Hello Mister," or running out to give you a high five.
Mawi is located in a pretty beautiful area, there's a crystal clear lagoon you paddle through at high tide to get out, or if you're waiting for waves you can hike 5 minutes over a tiny headland and have a massive beach to yourself.
Here's a shot of Courtney and one of Kent.
We would usually leave early morning and be back early afternoon, either have a nap or hang out with Thomas and Pablo, then get out for an evening surf in Grupuk. Followed by dinner and then peanuts, garlic peanuts. At least one bag per day. One evening Ajna, Courtney and I had a sunset beer from a pretty cool lookout point. The sunset wasn't too amazing, the beer was good though.
All of the girls left the day before us except Courtney, our last day there we all surfed Mawi, then cruised to Grupuk for a skate in the surf camp's bowl. I'm bringing my shoes next time! We had a nice dinner, said good-bye to our local friends and hit the sheets.
Kent and I left at 6am, this time we took the right roads and made it to the ferry in an hour. The lack of traffic helped with that. We caught a pretty nice sunrise on our ride.
We ended up having to wait a while for the ferry, so we were forced into buying nasi campur by the local sellers, then we drove a bit out of the way for a coffee. It wasn't until we were done that Kent started laughing and pointed across the parking lot. There were some guys working out, just using what they had available for weights. We joined in on the workout sesh:
Ah just kidding.
I guess they just overloaded the truck a little...
We both stopped and took this same picture right before we boarded. Kent had mentioned how priceless it would have been if the horse flipped up at this moment, hahaha.
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