WasSUPS? It's almost Summer....

I'd never really heard too much about the sport of Stand Up Paddle Surfing or S.U.P.S as it's called, makes sense I guess. A buddy of mine, 'Jenkie' called me up one day to ask if I'd like to take some snaps of him and some friends out on a reef close to Sanur as the swell was supposed to be hitting. Never one to shrug the chance to get into the water I responded with a very fast "Hell yeah"! Using a much larger board and a Paddle the rider is able to get faster take off speeds and withe the larger board is able to catch waves much earlier, farther out than conventional surfers. Yep, you guessed it, this pisses off the regular surfers off BIG TIME. It's weird, the surface of our Planet is 75% covered by water and yet so many people get into so many arguments about a wave?? Never understood that.

Anyway, we were slapping down the images at the OKA Point surf break close to the channel entrance of the island of Serangen in Sanur, Bali when we noticed the waves hitting along the region of what we call 'Shipwreck Point'. A sad sight awaits most beach strollers in this region. A nice sandy beach, great fun for the kids, nice water, and a recently wrecked tug boat on the reef, not cool.

Mother nature provides. The waves breaking around the stern of the ship were fun, shoulder to head high sets, all good, hard to swim in and deceptively powerful. I spent a couple of hours getting tossed, bruised and scraped by the elements but in the end 'What doesn't kill you only makes you better'! A great day, and more to come. The season is on the way, the sun is warm and the predicted swells will soon start. Fingers crossed.

This image was taken with a Canon 500D, Canon 60mm f2.8 in a Liquid Eye surf housing.

Cheers all, more Ocean celebrations tomorrow.
Mark
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