Tag Archive for ‘India’
Surfing in India, Part 2: Kerala
Day 9 The sleeper train to Madurai was interesting. You get a berth consisting of a lightly padded bunk, and that’s it. Three huge fans mounted on the ceiling are the air conditioning, and the windows are just cutouts in the steel of the carriage skin, with bars to prevent you falling out. We were [...]
Surfing in India, Part 1: Tamil Nadu
Day 1 Got into Madras, or Chennai as it’s called now, at about 5.30am. We had a slight hitch getting through immigration, as they insisted on knowing where we were going to stay. We had no idea where we going to stay, so we’d left that part on the form they gave us blank. The [...]
CitySurfer's Journal: 2000
January 2000 Happy New year, Thanks for the note. I’m still in Morocco surfing. Will stay here another two weeks then get out of the country, sell the van and fly to india. Trouble is, it would be easy to stay here all winter. New Years in Maroc was cool — just a few dozen [...]
India and Sri Lanka
The east coast of India is pretty poor for surf. I checked beaches at Gopalpur and Mamallapuram without seeing much potential. I spoke to an Aussie in M-puram who said he’d seen it break once in six months. Monsoons do push swell up into the Bay of Bengal, but there doesn’t seem to be any [...]
India Notes, Part 1
Silva rerum is a Latin term R. Kapuscinski liked to use. It means “the forest of things.” India is a vast forest of things, and people. Timeline: 2000 BC – Indus Valley Civ 1500 BC – Vedic/Aryan civ, beginning of castes 400 BC – Alexander the Great invades Himchal Pradesh 500 AD – Pallavas rise [...]
India Surf Beta
Any waves in Andaman sea? How about Gulf of Thailand? Just look at the map. It’s obviously hit by a lot of swell. Check out Surfer magazine’s recent article on the Andaman Islands. That will give you some basic idea of how rich the area is in wave potential. I’ve also heard that on the [...]