Post Your Trip Pics

[Critter]

Awesome pics Squatty ! Thanks for sharing.

[rveesurfdawg]

My last day surfing.
I've been holding on to this day for a while now.

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[rveesurfdawg]

Heres another with a little late of a drop in but I made it in.



Here is my buddie in it to win it.

[squatty]

A couple more pictures from American Samoa...

Very fun wave but shallow in some spots.
The right continued on forever as it wrapped around this small offshore island.
This island was so small you could walk around it and if the wind switched directions you walked to the other side.

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The color of the water in your second pic, squatty......................big sigh...................

[thurgood jenkins]

I love that tropical water, so beautiful and clear. I must say though when I was in So Cal. it was really sketchy surfing in such dirty water. It was so dirty you couldn't see more than 1 - 2 feet through the water. While sitting on the board Iusually couldn't see my feet, and sometimes my hands.
It wasn't the disgusting factor, though that was up there especially when I surfed sunset cliffs at the base of sunset blvd. after a massive rainstorm and after shooting the point and coming in I had to dodge floating trash on my water exit. Not to mention the oil that I got in Santa Barbara over everything, I guess those rigs leak a fair bit. The sketchiest and worst thing about the dirty water is you had no idea how shallow it was cuz you could never see the bottom. I remember surfing a wave we called rusty pipes and it was suuuper shallow on the inside, like barely able to clear the rocks with your fins, but you couldn't see the bottom. My buddy was jamming down the line, tried a floater at the end of the wave, landed it, fell off the side of the board, hit the bottom, actually smacking his nose on a rock.
We had no idea how shallow it was until then. From then on in, we cut off the back before the inside section. I guess dirty water has it's pros and cons, there's the out of sight out of mind factor, there were a few spots I probably wouldn't have surfed if I was able to see how rocky and shallow they were so I guess you have my confidence in your ignorance. But then theres the con of not knowing how shallow it is where submerged rocks are, etc. When I cam eback to Canada it was a trip to be able to see my feet again...

[Dano]

Squatty..
Sweet pics brah... Got me all psyched.. Those waves look super fun. WHen were you down there? Have you been in the south pacific before. I was in Tahiti for my honeymoon and it seems like it would be similar to Samoa.

I am going in May with a bunch of my boys from Maui. It sounds like an utterly insane place. Everyone I know who has gone swears by it. Im stoked you had such a good time! This place looks friggin amazing, and all we will be doing for 12 hours a day is surfing, hiking, diving and drinking beer.

P.S. - nice mug....we could be brothers...yikes!

[squatty]

Talofa.
Going to Samoa in May?
Man, you're going to have a blast I'm sure.
Right at the height of the swell season huh?

I have been thinking about going to Western Samoa with a buddy
but we always keep going back to Hawaii instead.
Maybe 2007, I'll wait and see how you score.

I was actually in American Samoa not Western Samoa.
My understanding is that Western Samoa has a whole lot more breaks to choose from.
The island of Tutuilla (where I was) is a much younger island than Upolu and Savai'i.
Because of this, the reef is much more shallow.
Most of the breaks we saw and surfed were only surfable
for a few hours of the day due to the shallow reef.
Maybe on a big swell it just breaks farther out, I don't know...

[pro moe]

no surf on sunday ufa ufa?

[fresh mode]

December '05 (sorry they're so big). My dad's not the best photographer...
me on a mushburger:



the gong show known as Cerritos:







serious shorepound...

[Stiffler]

heres pics from a trip yesterday:

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heres pics from a trip yesterday:

Yeah..........trip through the K-Mart catalog.

[intrepid]

Yeah..........trip through the K-Mart catalog.

That's what I was thinking. Those pics look a little too idealistic to be
real. If they are fake, don't tell me. I'm dreaming of a sunny break somewhere...

[wanty]

haha those are the few from the yahoo mail login page. good ones stiffler!

[thurgood jenkins]

I had sunny skies both days this past weekend, the waves were pretty good too!