As always, things go too fast over here. Already its only 3 days until we leave for Sumartra and as much as I cannot wait to get up there, I also want time to slow in this incredible place. The waves have been smoking even if the $400 US flights from Brazil have put an extra 30000 of the ruthless 'surfers' in the water. Ironic as this sounds, all their planes must have been delayed or something as they were nowhere to be seen the for the days when the surf was up. ( Save a fe

Its a long way west to east flying from Paris and however excited you are arriving here, I was as zapped as I've ever been after flying anywhere. The heat and humidity here is never easy but the lines arriving onto the reefs at Uluwatu started to make my heart pump from the top of the hill miles from even seeing them being challenged by the 8'0 riding hellmen. The low tide moving out fast with the moons big tides moved the waves from up the reefs and onto outside corner. The