SETTING UP
We met in Jakarta and took a crazy wild taxi drive for eight hours through the night before we reached the village that Thomas Traversa and Gilles Calvet used to come to many years ago. On the first day we were too tired from the long journey to windsurf so we rented motorbikes and explored the area. We could see a few different setups on the coastline that looked good for windsurfing and left us full of expectations. The first couple of days there was not much swell and we sailed a spot that is super shallow and only works with small waves. There was almost no Internet connection, but the word on the street said a bigger swell was supposed to arrive at some point.
After six days of surfing and sailing small and difficult waves we watched the sunset from the beach while suddenly more and more water started to push over the reef. We knew the big swell had arrived and I could feel the excitement growing in all of us, as this was what we had came for.