one month in sumatra

[smallhouse]

Oct 7 - nov 6 . This will be my 7th trip to Indonesia.
I'm looking at getting out to the telos or banyaks, semi feral.
Not too worried if i get waves or not, i just enjoy being there.
That said, any advice appreciated.
I speak good bahasa, average surfer, to give you an idea : i loved macaronis but wasn't good enough for lances right.
Tempt me

[Indo dreaming]

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[smallhouse]

Banyaks it is !
Got a ticket to medan, then overland/ferry to the islands.
once there , a local boat to surf will be sure to appear

[smallhouse]

Working 2 jobs
no chance of a surf for weeks
this holiday looks better and better.
Waves or not.

[smallhouse]

Found my way to the banyaks.

Erwin from the floating surf house made me a late season offer too good to refuse.
Arrived to find myself the only person there.

Got dropped off at the overhead barreling rights, where I got a couple of careful ones , before bailing to the perfect , easy left across the bay .

Ended up staying 11 days, offshore till lunchtime every day. Surfed the first swell till it died, and got another one not quite as big.

There ended up being a couple of surfers off 2 yachts sharing the waves, and one day, a charter boat. But they left to surf the famous break.

9/10, will return