It's the photo overflow from last week's Maldives Swell Report! We couldn't squeeze all the images into the original gallery so have created Part 2.
There’s really not much that I can say about September that I didn’t say in August - it was a very good month. The first week set the pace. It started with the Maldivian staple: 2-4ft of clean S/SE swell and light off-shores that enabled us to surf all the waves in the area.
Competition began straight off the bat at the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal - first day of the waiting period and they're into Round 1. The World Title may be decided here at Portugal so there's a delicious backstory running through the heats: Mick or Kelly, who'll be the champ?
Over the green hills, through the magical valley, then descend into the luscious grove - don't touch the colourful mushrooms!
Jesse Little leads a group of merry pranksters into fun waves at an enchanted beach.
The sequel to last weeks photos from a wild beachbreak somewhere in Indonesia. This time, however, it's Gold Coast photographer Grant Davis behind the lens as the sets strafe the shallow sandbank around him. Included in the shots are Dave Seymour, Khairil Satusuku, Nic Baxter and Tim Bradford.
Atrocious, just atrocious. That'd be the best way to describe the surf for the finals of the Quik Pro France. A freshening northerly seabreeze whipped up the small beachbreaks putting paid to barrels and opening up the air game. Fitting then, that Gabriel Medina made it to the finals - his best result of the year - by going left and punting into the wind.
"The direction the wave comes in just won't allow them to peak up anywhere," said Kelly Slater of the closeout conditions on Day 4 of the Quik Pro France. "It's just a flip of a coin and hoping that something happens out there for you."
After a four day interlude filled with pastries, wine and not much surfing, the Quik Pro France kicked back into gear. The surf at La Graviere was a clean and punchy 4-6 foot with barrels a'plenty. Surprisingly, all the locals and the near-enough-to-locals were ousted. Jez Flores, Aritz Aranburu and Ramzi Boukhiam all came undone in Round 3.
