Uruguay Hip Shaking Sessions

Uruguay...

We have spent the last week or so in a little slice of Uruguayan perfection.

We have been staying in Punta Del Diablo, which is rather pleasant during the winter, no crowds and off shores every day with perfect shoulder hight peelers rolling into the bay.

The only boards available where some sexy foam funboards in fluro colors. The best and shortest (8ft) of the 3 was dubbed hip shaker(orange), and the others were 10ft tanks.

We had so many epic sessions on the beasts, that sam decided to get a job in town, and the drop in tranny carressed the Hip shaker through some nice waves, i was hip shaking on whatever was available, dubbed the hip shaker because of the trade mark pumping action produced when trying to work the orange beast down the line.

Heres some shots of the epic sessions, shot by petra braving the howling offshores.





Punta Del Diablo point.

Drama, about to attempt the impossible duck dive..





The Albino Rhino -

Party Wave.



Tranny Tague on the ¨hip shaker¨ -





Hip Shaker -




Hip shaking ninja.


Heres another day when the sun was shining.

The Legend of chico

We spent an eerie couple of days in the tiny ghost town/surf spot of Porto fino. The only permanent inhabitant being the loco chico christian, who after a few beers made us lunch and fed us beers from 9:30 in the morning. He was a great host, if not a little wild, along with his troop of 5 dogs, i spent 3 days with waves all to myself.. and a few for chico.


Porto fino is a classic right hander, that can have rides of 500m or more, this is really similar to mangamanu style wave back in NZ.. scored this place at 3-6ft over a couple of days, and ther is tonnes, of other epic spots minutes from here..

enjoying the peaks all to myself


whos hiding inside there?

chico dropped in for a few of the bigger ones

this spot was insane, 8ft at least..

a left just round the corner

Logriding in chile..

We have been travelling around the north of argentina, bolivia and peru, so it was a welcome sight when we hit chile to see and smell the ocean.

Not so many shots of arica, but scored Iquique at a good solid 4ft with perfect barreling peaks 100m from where we are staying.

Iquique is like wave paradise, ther is about 10km of reef coastline with perfect breaks and sunny days CONSISTANTLY all year. Our hostal didnt even have a roof, thats how frequently it rains.

These are a few shots from what has become known as "toms reef". ´Nick named after one of the californians i have been surfing with who took his first nasty reef beating. Props to the veggie sam for surfing this place on a fun board with only one fin left... It was a ganrly right over shallow rock bottom..







The next few days we surfed the actual surfers spot, toms reef, is pretty much a body board wave.. This other one, is pretty famous in front of the Vertical surf shop and competition tower ,a punchy left that has spitting barrels that swallowed me occaisionally.

It doesnt look it but the set waves were easily stand up overhead classic blue barrels..

Arica

Home of the famous chillean pipeline "El Gringo" and big wave spot "El buey".

We manage to find the beautiful town of Arica, at a time when thankfully the swell was only a measly 6ft or somthing? This spot usually holds up to 20 ft, so i dont think i would be tackling that. The place we were staying at was as epic as the waves, and funny enough the guy who ran it was a big wave charger. His smallest board was a 6´6" gun. Actually he didnt own any other boards than guns.

heres a shot of el gringo doing its thing, there wasnt a wave that came through that didnt have a frothing spitting barrel. It was soo intense, and i read after that, its dangerous to surf it when its too small as this is a board breaking shallow beast.

Taking it to extremes, 100 on the other side of the tiny island that this wave breaks on, the swell pilters out and wraps around to La Isla with long perfect lefts peeling off into the bay.

Shakas

The super talented Ryan Tatar has a great blog i cant help but check out daily, Shakas and Single Fins.


I was feeling a bit uninspired, so i thought i would make him a few doodles for his header, there have been a few great blog headers floating around and a couple of my favourites are:

Adrian Knott, shakas and single fins:



and Jeff Canham for the swallow tail society:

Mid week Magnet

East coast was flat again, so we hit magnet for what was predicted to be only a foot or so of swell, what a surprise it was to be greeted with a solid 3-4ft and ruffled offshores!!

Mental session, resulting in a happy wave buzz and a foot that looks like it has been in a blender :(





We turned up and had the place to ourselves, until a school bus of grommets turned up, resulting in chaos in the line-up. I think i came in at this point.




b-rad stayed for a couple..

West Coast Mission

Raced over to the West Coast of NZ in search of some swell, and a half marathon (which greg ran in 1:33) and scored the dying 3-5ft swells at T-bay.




B-rad giving it a working over.





Rhymes with the T-bay shuffle.





Great peaks for fly aways.

Flat Spell

Its been flat on the east coast for ages now, but we discovered a secret break up the coast that was serving up some pretty heavy consistant cover-ups. B-rad couldnt help but get amoungst.

Night Surf

Had a fun dusk/night session at a random location up the coast.. Possibly not the best spot to be trying to scramble up a 40ft cliff, in the darkness..

Summer sessions

Time for a long awaited update, spent the new year period up at the bay, 7 days of non stop sun and 1-3ft waves goin offshore most evenings!! Epic.