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Good-Epic, Kandui, July 25, From Above Warning: goofyfoots may lose their collective minds on this one Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Vid: Manu Miguelez The Indian Ocean has been very alive over the past few weeks. Especially in Indonesia. And this trend shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon stay tuned, as we’ll be bringing realtime coverage from surfing’s favorite island chain as the swell(s) hit. Yeah, plural. Kevin Wallis breaks it down: “Similar to the storm that set up the Good to Epic waves at Lance’s Right in late May, the storm that set up this swell wasn’t especially big or strong,” Wallis explains. “But it did take a favorable track and carried respectable seas to within 1800 miles of the Mentawais, which allowed for a medium-size SSW swell to develop. As the swell arrived it was groomed by light wind into perfect conditions at Kandui.” ....
Good-Epic: Bali, July 31st More solid Indian Ocean swell pulsed into the Island of the Gods and then things got serious Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Photo: Hamish Humphries It’s embarrassing, frankly. The Indonesian archipelago has been so good for so long that anyone who’s lucky enough to have been there over these past few weeks is almost suffering from some weird surf version of survivor’s guilt. The islands have seen three+ back-to-back-to-back swells just in the past week which culminated in the biggest of the season so far, which hit August 1st. (We’re currently going through the mountain of material stay tuned for a full wrap on that.) As the swell was rising the day before its Sunday peak, long-period groundswell sets like the one above would peel down the entire length of the Bukit Peninsula, sending surfers into tube overload. ....