• you are on top of the world with the ocean at your feet
  • the lacklustre reports and general vagueness are false - the surf is mind-blowing, powerful and setups are seemingly everywhere
  • Anne mixing her breakfast out of scraps lying around (papaya, oats, nuts, honey, peanut butter) with single-minded focus
  • hitching a speedboat ride from honkys to sultans but finding M at the end before me because he caught an outside set! true, unadulterated, functional surfing
  • mind-blowing biodiversity
  • eagle rays travelling below me in a fever made me feel like i was floating in a dream
  • cafe oevaru is a second home
  • creamy seafood pasta with sambal at cafe oevaru
  • never ending paddle back at honkys
  • seeing urchin spikes sticking out of my heel for the first time, i have become a pincushion
  • the souk-like vitality of male alleys at night
  • seeing shore breaks in the dark from the airport and getting worried because there was way more swell than i thought there would be
  • the seedy hotel 6-in-1
  • bewildering where-do-they-lead lefts of honkys
  • perfectly curling rights of sultans
  • relentless, peeling jails
  • deceptively mellow ninjas
aug 20 2019 ∞
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