Surfed Impossibles today..
For the first time I finally surfed Impossibles today, It is the left hand point break between Dreamlands and Padang Padang. Swell still pumping, winds off shore, good size waves all afternoon. Me and Johan both got a few lengthy high spped waves to day so that was great. We went in at 2pmish mid tide 1.5m and came out at low .5m it worked really well at around 1.2m ish good size and shape, reef super sharp here and now I have a whole bunch of scrapes again all over my feet and a few on my hands.
So here we go more sea ulcers on the way. We both had to walk bare foot back over the reef on the way out. I got dragged accross the reef today whilst swimming back to shore trying to recover my escaping surfboard after my leash snapped!! Then, Aghhh!! a damn piece of coral gets broken and lodged in the ball of my right foot so in the Warung I had to dig it out with my thumbnail so that it does not get infected, live coral is really infectous and now this small hole is really sore now..
Impossibles Stats– needs a good size swell 6 ft + @ 14 seconds or more bigger the better. A 1.5m tide seemed perfect to get in and out of the break as reef covered enough to paddle freely over without scraping fins on the coral. Surfable at a .5m tide but super painful getting in and out without reef boots. Reef really sharp so rising tide better to come back in. Dry season wave, and the trade winds from south east blow offshore all day. Gets pretty crowded, called Impossibles as it runs really fast and can be difficult to make the sections, expect to be dropped in on by surfers with no faith that your making them. Lots of take off points down the line, shallow on the inside but a great wave,..
Hi Jason- you dont know me but i was directed to this site by a surf buddy while we were driving across ireland…he said he had come across a cool blog about this fella learning to surf out in indo. He said his name was “jason lunn” and he was ex BMX/skater…which fired up my brain synapses cos i once knew a lassie called natalie lunn who’s two brothers were sucessful BMX racers…so as soon as a i got home i looked up the blog…and after a little bit of searching realised you must be natalie’s older brother who she used to talk about…i never got to meet you but i did stay with nat for a few months in surrey and met your bro nathan…who i see now has a lovely baby girl and is going bald! Please pass on my best wishes to your bro and sis. i owe Nat massive gratitude cos her cool head helped me get out of a bit of a situation in india way back in 95.
The surf here on the east coast of the Uk is just going into season and we have had junky head high swell all week. Also just got back from a sucesful trip to ireland where we got well overhead clean conditions. nice to see that the lunn clan are doing OK. pass on my email to natt if you can. cheers danny
Comment by Danny Oconnor — October 24, 2009 @ 5:29 am