Apa Kabar? Balinese Indonesian for; How are you?
Nikon Camera delivered by hand to my hotel door, £40 from Jakarta airport, very pleased have a small camera for discreet photo capture,
SARANGAN;
This is a beach with a good long wave about 20 mins on a moped from my hotel went here yesterday and today no swell at the moment infact no waves forecast for next 5 days.
I have been hanging out with Anna and Villa from Holland having some fun went out and ahad a dance last night, they are loving there surfing at the moment so they are a very positive influence to be around and very funny and friendly.
Whilst waiting fro my camera to be delivered 6pm turned into 9.30pm I ended up meeting the local skateboarders who have their own Surf skate clothing brand CIBOLA. It turns out one of my neighbours is a 20 year oldBalinese pro surfer who recently came 3rd overall in the Indonesian surfing championships. He has just come back from Hawaii and suggested that we should go and do some surfing filming and photography together. Totally friendly young lad, told me his life story and offered me Bintang (Indo Beer) all night having travelled the world surfing he is a very grateful and grounded young man, watch this space for info and surf footage.
His crew are great really talented positive and creative, between them they have produced the first surfing dvd featuring all Indonesian surfers, filmed, edited, produced and promoted entirely by themselves. It is really inspiring as they are all early twenties and are taking back some of the Industry in Indonesia which seems to be entirely run by multinational Australian and USA surf brands. All good stuff here, I know I will be getting some great shots when the waves pick up..
Last two days have been great for getting camouflage padded camera cases made networking with the types of people I feel inspired by and having a fun time..
Still getting better each day, I can feel the next swell should bring some good waves to surf..
