if u r hiring a car ,go to blue pacific car rentals. they are on the road as u come into apia. we paid about 600 for 7days and got a 4wd hyundai tucson. they have good cars and more important good tyres. ive been over before and hired a car elsewhere and got 2 flats in 2 days.!
u can get a map for savaii at a site called surfmaps. costs 5 bucks. i did get it a while back, its not to bad. tryed to find it for you but must of deleted it.
print a tide chart off for the weeks u r away. go to
www.bom.gov.au look for pacific islands tides.
if any of you been watching survivor, the foafoa camp was set up right in front of one of the best waves in the islands...
surfline do a good chart for swell size/period/direction. it changed last year so u can only see the coming 3 days unless u subscribe. but if u got internet access, id check it out. remember u got 2 coasts to surf. while i was over there i found the forecasts to be quite accurate. but u need to have an understanding of how to decipher the info presented to u.
bdl77..those pics of pebbles? if not then thet gotta be pasales(wakas)
south coast of upolu is farked still. i seriously looked into going over to help the rebuild. trouble is u have to pay 1200 for a week. my prob is i got a huge mortgage and a family to feed, so its not feasible.ive also had a few bad injuries to get over.. if someone said theyd pay my way, id be straight over. its farked how the relief aid works. surely in a coutrty like that, where 100s of millions of aid is being donated, they could allocate say 10 mill to cover the costs of tradies and their tools gettin over there?
ive been keeping a close eye on the place and they are just not gettin houses buil, meanwhile families are livin under tarpaulins. they are rebuilding 500 homes costing 10k each. now thats only 5 mill. they have received 200 odd mill in aid. i understand the infrastructure costs, but cmon, where is the rest of the dough.?
samoans are wonderful people and its a beautiful place. havent been to savaii yet, but they reckon its the better island, and better waves...
let us know how your trip goes when u get back.
