Day 1 arrival in Padang, Indonesia. Weather was hot and humid and I met up with our group of 13 other travelers from Hawaii and Japan. Our game plan was to surf, dive, film, explore for 11 days and everyone was super excited to get on the boat.
We arrived in the Mentawais and for those of you have been there before, it has the most beautiful sunsets with spectacular colors. We surfed 3 spots on the first day to warm up then heard a big swell was coming in 2 days...
So we motored to HT's or Lances Right on day 3 and no boats were there and waves were going off! 6-8 ft with outer reef take offs, doubling up into these sick hollow ledges. We got barreled out of our minds and took thousands of photos and hours of video capturing every good wave that came through. I have surfed this spot on every Mentawai trip and by far is one of the best right handers in the world. If this was backdoor or big rights there would be 100 guys out easy, but it was just us and some surfers from the surf camp.
We also got to dive in between surf sessions and catch some fresh fish for our pupu hours. They had this surgeon type fish similar to the opelu kala but looks like a herepoti (tahitian fish) which I really enjoyed eating so on this dive and got some for the group. More to come on this boat trip later...
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