Scoring waves to yourself is hard enough in this day and age. Let alone scoring tubes in Indo on your own. However, Byron’s Taj Richmond set out to prove us otherwise in his latest edit in collaboration with Afends.
“Griggs and I had been sussing out a few zones for a surf trip away from home. Nothing had really lined up. A few swells looked promising, then fizzled into nothing. Or we’d hear, ‘you just missed it.’ It was becoming the norm. I wasn’t too worried as we have had some nice beachies lighting up around home. I couldn’t complain,” Taj said.
Eventually the pair decided to book a flight to Indo and check out an island that Taj had never visited before.
“Everything was pretty smooth sailing except for the 2:30 am, 6.5 hour car ride from the airport, which was skits. And we got informed that my boards hadn’t made the flight. Brutal,” he said. “The Next morning was cooking and I had one of Pig’s flextails to put to the test. I probably scored my best wave of the trip that morning.”
Eventually Taj’s McTavish quiver showed up and his stylish surfing on the alternative craft is evident throughout the edit.
“Surfing with no one out, almost every time, was unreal – so different from other Indo trips I’ve had. We could sit on a bank right out the front of our place and it’d just be us, no one in sight.
“There’s not too much more to it. A blur of good food, laughs, and experimenting with all sorts of boards in dreamy lineups. Massive thanks to all the friendly faces we met along the way, and for all the high fives.”
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