Who’s it gonna be?? Contest is on for May 31st!

We will be holding the 2008 Donkey Patrol Championships on May 31st at Campgrounds (same locale as last year). It looks like we will have a fun Southern Hemi swell on tap. Mark your calendars! More information to follow:

Surfline:
Beyond that we’ll see a modest bump move in out of the SSE direction (160-165) for select spots around the 28th-29th, with knee/waist occasional chest high+ surf at the good spots of North OC (although average spots are below waist high). A possibly better and fun size S swell (180-185) looks to move in around the 30th-31st. Stay tuned, we’ll see how that storm behaves in the next couple days.

Wetsand:
Friday the 30th into Saturday the 31st is when our next southern hemi swell is due. As you may recall from my earlier reports this week, this is from a system that broke off Antarctica and headed northward towards Easter Island. This should bring 180-degree energy with 14- 16-second periods, peaking probably on the AM of Saturday the 31st. Size is estimated at chest to head high for most south facing breaks.

American Airlines Travelers Beware

American Airlines recently announce that it would start to charge $15 for the first bag checked, they are going to cancel a number of domestic flights and lay off a bunch of people. Maybe it is time to find a different carrier to use for travel…. Is anyone using American to get to Kandui?

Full story: http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-american22-2008may22

Coaster Fare Increase

I know most of you do not use the Coaster very often, and I do not think any of you use the Sorrento Valley Shuttle, but when you do use the coaster you should know the coaster is about to get REALLY expensive. The cost to ride the Coaster downtown could end up being as much as $19 round trip. This is also going to impact those who use the Sorrento Valley Coaster Connection to work from the Coaster. You can voice your opposition here:

http://www.sandag.org/organization/configcomment/index.asp?pid=6

The deadline to submit your opinion is May 28th. @5PM

Hotel in Kuala Lumpur – READ THIS!

Ok fools, I have us dialed in for Kualu Lumpur. I was able to get us two more rooms reserved with my travel agent I.D. for $90.00 +tax. We will have 4 rooms total, which should be very comfy after the long, hell flight. This will give us a total of about $80.00 each for the two nights in KL at the Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel (Click on the title for the link). We will be in the heart of the city and have a swim up bar, etc. on the premises! Please let me know A.S.A.P. if anyone has an issue or is too cheap to pay the $80.00 total (for both nights) for a little luxury before our primitive habitations in Indo so that I may cancel.

Indian Ocean’s Eleven

Well, Last week I mentioned that decision day was last Friday, and that I would give you all an update as to what I meant by that. Well there has been a little stuff going on behind the scenes with our trip and at one point a few weeks ago it looked like two people were going to drop out. One of the two had a legitimate reason and the other, well… not so much.

In the interim period when I was not sure who was coming, I put my feelers out for potential takers. Stefan and Summer wanted in as a pair, but that would have required both potential dropouts, then Geoff “Buckets” Brantley announced he wanted in as well.

It was determined last Friday that Ryan Seibring from Hawaii was not going to cancel, so that ruled out the Stefan & Summer option. Then Geoff called and asked if I could get him a guaranteed spot no matter what. I doubted it at first, and called Anthony @ Kandui to try to work it out. Anthony agreed to allow our group to grow to 11 if Ford decided to stick with the plan.

Well here we are on Monday @ 2pm and the final results are in. Ford is sticking with the plan, and we now have a group of 11 headed to the mentawais in 46 days. The final 11 are:

  1. Conner Erwin
  2. Ford Blakes
  3. Bill Ivers
  4. Tom Ivers
  5. Chris Smith
  6. Geoff Brantley
  7. Todd Marquet
  8. Ryan Siebring (1998 Mountain Dew Wakeboard National Champion)
  9. Shea Varge
  10. Marc Kozai
  11. Josh Lenahan
Ryan Siebring is ready for takeoff

Decision Day

Today is Super Friday, and the outcome determines who will be getting elected into super tubes in a few weeks. I’ll update this and explain it at the end of the day today.

In the mean time here is a picture from Kandui Yesterday.

The Pink Rashguard Arrives

Hi-Res Images available by request.

DP Mascot

Something to get you Donkey’s fired up! By the way, who is “Anonymous” that keeps posting comments? Step into the light!

2008 DONKEY INVITATIONAL

Two donkeys looking quite timid before their first heat against last year’s 2007 Champion, Josh “The Viper” Lagahan!


Attention Donkeys! Its that time of year again to put up or shut up! The Donkey Contest will be taking place between the end of May and sometime in June. We need feedback on possible dates and waiting period. We know that Blakes likes it small and Sheagas likes the “big ones” so we may need to have some patience. Please give feedback a.s.a.p. so that we may have the competition before Indo. Possible event locations: SanO (We can get a site on the beach), Camps (repeat of last year).

Billabong Pro Tahiti – Round 1 Today

Round one will start today at 7am Tahiti time. Waves today should be in the head high to a few feet over category. Larger swell expected for later rounds.

Will it be Teahupoo or Nopoo?

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