June Heats 12: The Peak

Well, let me begin with Mandiri. I was at Mandiri at 9:30. The surf was working as usual, it was big enough, but it wasn’t perfect. Nobody was in the water. Some surfers came by to check the swells but nobody went into the water. Meanwhile, there were a lot of local travelers at the beach. They came by bus from other town hundred of km away. Judging from the buses, they must have come from a neighboring province, north of Krui.

Turning to The Peak, at about 10 o’clock, I saw five people in the water. They were all on body board. Nobody was using a surf board. The Peak was big enough and consistent. They enjoyed the surf until they got enough and came out of the water at 11:00. And right after the surf was emptied, there came four surfers (four surfers!) to replace. I don’t know if this four surfers had been waiting by the beach for some time, or they just had arrived right at the moment the body boarders came out of the water because I didn’t see them coming, I was taking pictures at a different place. But it’s funny if you know that surfers don’t want to mix with body boarders, or if the body boarders and the surfers must have their own session.

And when I finished taking pictures at about 11:30, I saw many people watching at the entrance way. They were surfers who had been knocking around the surf spots and found no surf was OK. They all came by cars. They didn’t seem to have surfed yet. I asked a man whether they had been to other spot before they came to The Peak. “Yes, we have been to Krui Left,” he said. “It was smaller than this here. And there were about fifteen surfers in the water, about fifteen minutes ago.” And when I checked Krui Left at about 11:40, it was smaller, and I saw seven people in the water.