SOUTH AFRICA 3

After a long 8 hour drive, we all made it up to Ballito to our condo. We met up with Erica Hosseini, another friend we hadn't seen in ages, who has been suffering for a reoccurring knee injury and has made the trip all the way here just to maintain her ranking on the QS. Fun surf the morning of this photo, shot by Sacha Specker.

But as we had been told, the storm of the year was on its way. Somehow we only had a two day holding period for this comp, and we woke Saturday to the swell of the year, looked like huge hawaii on reef beachies that couldn't handle. No one was surfing anywhere! Sunday, they ran a few heats and called the contest off the heat after mine, which I lost by less than a point. I was pretty pissed considering the wind of the century had been blowing in our heat, yet they finished one more heat and called the event off. After all the drama and trying to figure out what they would do, as most of the girls were leaving the next day, they decided to split the points and money and carry on. What a lame contest! Soooooo stoked that I had made this a surf trip, not just for a contest! I wish I could stay longer and carry on up to Mozambique with the Hodge's but it is crazy expensive to chance flights, maybe next year! Aloha!