Snapper Rocks Local Paul Kelly was seen Ripping several reef breaks on a recent surf trip to the Maldives, riding his Diverse 7'0" SG model - single fin with side stabilizers. The coastal watch website had this to say.........
| Maldives Swell Journal June 6-24, 2010. |
| Hello again from Hudhuran Fushi Island in the Maldives. We have enjoyed yet another great run of waves and weather. I'm sitting here sun-burnt, surfed out, and very, very satisfied, trying to find a different way to say that, once again the Maldives has delivered. It's been pumping! Our World Surfaris guests have surfed every day for as long as I can remember, though there were a couple of not so good days with small swell and bad weather back around June 9 and 10, but generally it has been a very good few weeks. The wind has been very light so we have been able to surf everywhere. The boats have been going North and South and scoring too many times to isolate individual sessions. The last swell built gradually - We had a week of it picking up daily from 2-3 ft sheet glass to 3-4ft to 4-6ft to an epic peak on June 18 and 19, now it's dropping off slowly. I find that guests are way more confident when the conditions improve slowly over a number of days, rather than going from shoulder high to double over-head over night. More than once I was told "that was the biggest/best wave of my life" by very happy guests. We have had a great group here this week, I must mention "the Zilla's" who managed to break out of the stereotype to such an extent that the Aussies wanted to surf every session with them. Also Poppie, from Snapper, who at 60yrs old was paddling into set waves up at Cokes. He was here with his son Dazza who had to leave a few days earlier than his old man. "you'll look after him aye, Rich?" he said to me during a session up at Cokes, I replied "no worries Dazza!" and promptly called the charging grandpa into one of the thickest sets of the day! Poppie made the air drop and made it to the channel in one piece, then paddled back out and gave me a roasting for not having been on the boat to get a photo! He's now known as "Air drop Pop" to all!! Inspirational stuff. |
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