======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Neal Miyake" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:23:11 -1000 Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? I have a long list of places I'd like to surf (J-Bay, Kirra, G-Land, Rincon, Tavarua, Puerto Escondido, Costa Rica, among others), but if I had to choose just one... I would take a cruise through Indo in one of those Indies Trader ships. Comfortable, little crowds, variety of surfing conditions, tropical environment--what more could you ask for? sponge HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: surfer@island.net (Surfing Vancouver Island) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:02:36 GMT "Neal Miyake" wrote: >Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? In this life I would like to surf a break in front of my home. Presently this is impossible barring the possibility of a tsunami large enough to wind it's way around or over the Island. What I really have in mind is to find a chunk of land on the west coast of the Island. It would be a "fly or boat in" location as there is no practical possibility of road construction to the part of the coast I have in mind. There are some awesome points off the beaten track, and the world could not foreseeable overrun this area in my lifetime. To look out the window each morning and decide between clothes and wetsuit would suit me right down to the ground. My wife gets a little reserved when I talk about this, but she never says no either. Cam ============================= http://www.island.net/~surfer/ Surfing Vancouver Island.... and other wet pursuits including windsurfing, sailing, scuba, kayaking, fishing and much more ======================================================================= ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: five_o@powerup.com.au (jpg) Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:55:55 GMT >Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? Hmm, a bit of morose start to the week........... Outer Islands of Micronesia and Cocos Islands - uncrowded, (reasonably) hard to get to and very fickle. >but if I had to choose >just one... I would take a cruise through Indo in one of those Indies >Trader ships. Comfortable, little crowds, variety of surfing conditions, >tropical environment--what more could you ask for? Methinks someone has purchased the latest vid from Q - "The Hole" ??? jpg ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Neal Miyake" Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 06:37:16 -1000 jpg wrote: > >>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > >Hmm, a bit of morose start to the week........... > >Outer Islands of Micronesia and Cocos Islands - uncrowded, >(reasonably) hard to get to and very fickle. > >>but if I had to choose >>just one... I would take a cruise through Indo in one of those Indies >>Trader ships. Comfortable, little crowds, variety of surfing conditions, >>tropical environment--what more could you ask for? > >Methinks someone has purchased the latest vid from Q - "The Hole" ??? No. Just got the propaganda from the major rags. Are the vids any good? sponge HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) ======== To: Neal Miyake Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: Mueller Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:15:10 -0700 > Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > > > sponge > HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) This sounds like an interesting tread. Being from California, surfing most every spot from Humboldt, CA to Cabo, Mex I would like to surf in the south Pacific. Any place in Fiji, a reef pass or an island reef or even a two ft mush inside sandbar, it wouldn't really matter. Just to be in the warm, clear water of the Pacific and know I had been to that area the south swell waves I have enjoyed so much in California were born. Yeah, I think how much I very well may like that. Michael ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Buck" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:00:19 -0000 i would just like to surf good boca barranca... -- Later, Buck Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > >I have a long list of places I'd like to surf (J-Bay, Kirra, G-Land, Rincon, >Tavarua, Puerto Escondido, Costa Rica, among others), but if I had to choose >just one... I would take a cruise through Indo in one of those Indies >Trader ships. Comfortable, little crowds, variety of surfing conditions, >tropical environment--what more could you ask for? > >sponge >HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) > > ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Todd Pettit" Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 01:59:42 -0500 I would have to say Costa Rica. I have heard so much about it, and I hear once I go there I will never want to come back to the states. Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > >I have a long list of places I'd like to surf (J-Bay, Kirra, G-Land, Rincon, >Tavarua, Puerto Escondido, Costa Rica, among others), but if I had to choose >just one... I would take a cruise through Indo in one of those Indies >Trader ships. Comfortable, little crowds, variety of surfing conditions, >tropical environment--what more could you ask for? > >sponge >HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) > > ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "John Ferguson" Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 04:07:10 -0500 Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > Neal, you surf in places I dream about almost every day. I'd really like to visit the popular spots in South Africa. My Grandparents grew up in Cape Town, and I have relatives there that I've never met. Today I visited my father, who recently returned from a trip to Ecuador, and the Galapogus Islands. He's a Marine Biology Professor, and went there with some of his students. In the backgound of many of his photographs were beautiful waves, with long, grounded swell lines, and smooth, hollow faces. He said he didn't see any surfers, and access to the islands was restricted because it is a wildlife preserve. I think an ideal destination, as you described, would be a place like that. Somewhere that is virtually untouched, surronded by tame, indiginous wildlife, and located in warm tropical weather. No attitude or commercialism, just beauty and serenity. I'll try to get some of those pictures scanned so I can post them. John. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: ankleslop@aol.com (AnkleSlop) Date: 2 Mar 1998 01:08:45 GMT > >Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? >> > > I'm thinking warm, glassy rights or lefts. Somewhere fiendly and tropical would be the choice of course. Tavarua? Hawaii? Better than average day at the inlet? Man, I don't care as long as I surf. P- ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: mv24fps@aol.com (MV24fps) Date: 2 Mar 1998 02:42:02 GMT >>Neal Miyake wrote in message >>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? For me it has to be J-Bay. At some point I have to get there. Gamivia Duke, Esq. Los Angeles Kelp Patrol ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "John E. Lake" Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:33:39 -0800 MV24fps wrote: > >>Neal Miyake wrote in message > > >>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > > For me it has to be J-Bay. At some point I have to get there. > I'm with you there. My plan is to take my son there for his 16th birthday (of course if I were to win the $8 million lottery this wednesday, I'd go a little earlier than planned). I've actually got 4 places that I've always wanted to surf. Tavarua - this one has been accomplished in grand form (I'm gonna do again within' the next couple of years). Honolua Bay - this is inevitable (my in-laws have a house fairly close.....all I gotta do is buy the plane ticket) - There's actually two seperate conditions that I want to surf here: 1) the typical head and half to double overhead grinding barrels with my trusty 7'3". 2) but then I also want to surf it shoulder to head high on about 10' + noserider. G-Land - The trip is already planned. Jeffrey's Bay - See above of course, it's pretty hard to beat one of your homebreaks on an glassy overhead day. A lefthand cobblestone pointbreak that the rides are soooo long, it takes you 20 to 25 minutes to walk back to where you took off. Halfway through, your legs feel "the burn" so bad that you can't hit the lip anymore, all you do is cruise and enjoy the scenery. Surfing this with only 3 of your friends, you wait for someone else to come down the point so you have somebody to chat with on way back (or you can throw rocks at your other friends as they go screaming by :) ). -- ***to reply, remove the "s" at the beginning of my address*** John H. Lake http://www.accessone.com/~lakes ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio) Date: 3 Mar 1998 13:47:41 GMT In article <34FB8823.9F1AF593@accessone.com>, "John E. Lake" writes: >I've actually got 4 places that I've always wanted to surf. >Tavarua - this >one has been accomplished in grand form (I'm gonna do >again within' the next >couple of years). Snipped the other places that don't compare to: Santa Monica, Ca. My dream. How's that grab you, Utah? Surff ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "John E. Lake" Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:08:01 -0800 SurffOhio wrote: > In article <34FB8823.9F1AF593@accessone.com>, "John E. Lake" > writes: > > >I've actually got 4 places that I've always wanted to surf. > > >Tavarua - this > >one has been accomplished in grand form (I'm gonna do > >again within' the next > >couple of years). > > Snipped the other places that don't compare to: > > Santa Monica, Ca. My dream. > > How's that grab you, Utah? > > Surff you are a sad individual. That's almost as bad as saying your dream is.......San Clemente. -- ***to reply, remove the "s" at the beginning of my address*** John E. Lake http://www.accessone.com/~lakes ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio) Date: 3 Mar 1998 20:27:56 GMT In article <34FC5511.60199E7F@accessone.com>, "John E. Lake" writes: > you are a sad individual. That's almost as bad as saying your >dream >is.......San Clemente. I am not sad. I have been saving money for several years for a week long surf trip to Santa Monica. I have almost gotten the bucks together. You are just jealous. When you are in Tavarua you can think of me, catching sweet stand up barrels in Santa Monica. BTW, does any one know if there is an Econolodge in Santa Monica? Surff ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: Tauras Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:11:17 -0800 SurffOhio wrote: > > In article <34FC5511.60199E7F@accessone.com>, "John E. Lake" > writes: > > > you are a sad individual. That's almost as bad as saying your > >dream > >is.......San Clemente. > > I am not sad. I have been saving money for several years for a week long surf > trip to Santa Monica. I have almost gotten the bucks together. > > You are just jealous. When you are in Tavarua you can think of me, catching > sweet stand up barrels in Santa Monica. > > BTW, does any one know if there is an Econolodge in Santa Monica? Yeah they are called culverts ;) I hear Bay street rocks... about once a year beware the brown water! -- ~~~~Tauras Sulaitis~~~~ <<>> http://www.slonet.org/~tsulaiti/ ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: yarningdale@hotmail.com Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 02:44:56 -0600 John E. Lake wrote... > MV24fps wrote: > > >>Neal Miyake wrote... > > >>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > > > > For me it has to be J-Bay. At some point I have to get there. > > I'm with you there. My plan is to take my son there for his 16th > birthday (of course if I were to win the $8 million lottery this > wednesday, I'd go a little earlier than planned). > > I've actually got 4 places that I've always wanted to surf. > > Tavarua - this one has been accomplished in grand form (I'm gonna do > again within' the next couple of years). > > Honolua Bay - this is inevitable (my in-laws have a house fairly > close.....all I gotta do is buy the plane ticket) - There's actually > two seperate conditions that I want to surf here: > 1) the typical head and half to double overhead grinding barrels with > my trusty 7'3". > 2) but then I also want to surf it shoulder to head high on about 10' > + noserider. > > G-Land - The trip is already planned. > > Jeffrey's Bay - See above I've only surfed two of the four places you've mentioned, Jeffreys Bay being one of them. It's a one day trip for me, but I haven't visited there in over three years. I'd rather surf the beachbreaks in my hometown than head back to J-Bay (ever). There's a lot of good waves there, especially out at Supertubes, but crowds are a huge hassle. Minimum 70 guys in the water on a good Saturday morning. Localism in the line-up has been taken to the extreme that you'll find at Tamarin Bay in Mauritius, or the West Side of Oahu. There are idiots out there just amping to go a few rounds with a foreigner. Xenophobia to the extreme. J-Bay has got plenty of waves, and a set at Supertubes is as good as you'll get anywhere in the world. However to spend a few thousand dollars getting yourself over to South Africa to surf J-Bay isn't (IMHO) worth it. South Africa is a great surfing destination, but J-Bay is the dog's balls. Try East London, the West Coast (north of Cape Town) or the Transkei coastline for an epic holiday you'll never forget. The local surfers in all those places are always cool - and you'll find the quality of waves just as good, but with 1/10th the crowd factor. Hope the advice is worth something. - Napalm -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: kahunagod@aol.com (KahunaGOD) Date: 5 Mar 1998 04:23:21 GMT I'd settle for Big-Rock(South Windansea, LaJolla CA) all to myself. Happened to me and my buddy once. Super-bowl Sunday, 1979. Low-tide, sucking out, 6-8 feet, snake tubes (you couldn't see the end). What a day. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: gar@lisi.com (Garrett Lisi) Date: 2 Mar 1998 06:55:24 GMT > >>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? Honolua Bay with konas blowing offshore, a solid 12' swell, and a mellow crowd. Impossible you say? I got it a month ago for my thirtieth birthday. Blew my mind. I can die a happy man now. -G .-===_ A.Garrett Lisi ^+^ gar@lisi.com .' / \ ^+^ http://heaviside.ucsd.edu/ .' |\o \ Physics Department and -' | h\ Institute for Nonlinear Science ___/(_ \^ University of California, San Diego ='____.\ `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'~~~~\{~ ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: " NapalmŪ" Date: 2 Mar 1998 20:47:33 GMT Bonzer, Garret and a whole lot of others wrote ... > AnkleSlop wrote... > >>Neal Miyake wrote... > >>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? There's a peninsula I've been studying on the world wave model http://www.fnoc.navy.mil/wam/gifs/wam_wvht_000_glbl.gif since late 1996. I log on every second or third day, and save the swell image to a folder for the day I decide to go there. I'd rather not say which country it's in, but I was watching this programme of TV about two years back (I don't even remember what the programme was about) when in the background - behind the idiot presenter who wouldn't get out the way - was the most insane bay. Lefts and rights coming in on each side, blue water, and not a soul in the line-up. The guy babbled on just long enough for two or three waves to follow, confirming that the first set was no fluke. This place gets plenty of swell, as much I'd say as Indo or the some of the better South Pacific destinations. I've gone out and purchased a few 1:300K nautical charts from the area, and there are endless headlands, bays and reefs open to exploration. The area I'm talking about is about 100km of coastline (60 miles?) Never mind "before I die", before the turn of the century I want to get over there. And hey, if the place sucks, I'll gladly tell you all where it is. If it doesn't, sorry boys! Maybe that's selfish, but be honest, do you share your secret spots with the whole of alt.surfing? NapalmŪ Registration, it's a good thing -- # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Spam guard - remove spaces to mail # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Bonzer" Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:14:04 -0800 NapalmŪ < NapalmŪ > wrote in message <01bd461c$30a091e0$37621fc4@computer>... >about) when in the background - behind the idiot presenter who wouldn't get >out the way - was the most insane bay. Lefts and rights coming in on each > Speaking of unintended shots. Someone told me that in the flick Titanic, one of the night deck scenes showed some classic waves peeling off in the distance. Must have been Popotla if true. I missed it though, anybody else see this? Bonzer ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Bonzer" Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:01:32 -0800 AnkleSlop wrote in message <19980302010801.UAA23279@ladder03.news.aol.com>... >> >>Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? >>> anywhere ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: nos@nexus.cprinc.com (Nosurfatu) Date: 3 Mar 98 21:30:25 GMT In article <6des4n$sd8$1@hops.adnc.com>, Bonzer wrote: >AnkleSlop wrote in message ><19980302010801.UAA23279@ladder03.news.aol.com>... >>> >>>Neal Miyake wrote in message <6d6sr1$ofu@enews2.newsguy.com>... >>>>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? > >>>> > >anywhere > > agreed. That is, anywhere thats in the water. ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: RaF Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 04:58:09 GMT On Tue, 03 Mar 1998 19:00:25 -0800, Daniel wrote: >I wanna shoot the Pearly Gates. > >Then spend eternity making longboards* with the carpenter's Son. > > > > *All longboarders go to Heaven. Huh? ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: dagum@sgi.delete.com (Leo Dagum) Date: 4 Mar 1998 17:54:41 GMT In article <34FCC3C9.74BF@pacbell.net>, Daniel writes: |> I wanna shoot the Pearly Gates. |> |> Then spend eternity making longboards* with the carpenter's Son. |> |> |> |> *All longboarders go to Heaven. It's precisely that kind of attitude that gives longboarders such a bad name around here. They surf like they're heaven bound regardless of who they snake, hassle or drop in on. Absolutely no regard for other surfers (long or shortboard). - leo -- Leo Dagum Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA 94043 (650-933-2179) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "Neal Miyake" Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:48:40 -1000 John Ferguson wrote: >Neal Miyake wrote: >>Q: Where do you want to surf before you die? >Neal, you surf in places I dream about almost every day. Sometimes dreams don't live up to expectations. (But occasionally they do.) >Today I visited my father, who recently returned from a trip to Ecuador, and >the Galapogus Islands. He's a Marine Biology Professor, and went there with >some of his students. In the backgound of many of his photographs were >beautiful waves, with long, grounded swell lines, and smooth, hollow faces. >He said he didn't see any surfers, and access to the islands was restricted >because it is a wildlife preserve. Did you see the Surfer mag article written by Dan Duane on the Galapogas (sp)? They found a *huge* wave that drilled everyone. >I think an ideal destination, as you described, would be a place like that. >Somewhere that is virtually untouched, surronded by tame, indiginous >wildlife, and located in warm tropical weather. No attitude or >commercialism, just beauty and serenity. There are still places like that. Just gotta dig deeper. >I'll try to get some of those pictures scanned so I can post them. We all look forward to seeing them. OBTW, was that really you with the six bettys in the pic in alt.surfing.longboard? How much did you have to pay them to pose with you? (nah!) Aloha, sponge HI Surf Advisory (http://www.iav.com/~sponge/) ======== Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard,alt.surfing.longboard Subject: Re: Where do you want to surf before you die? From: "baker" Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:34:02 -0000 a near empty lineup at Hanalei Point (this is a wish list, right?)