Kiteventure

 Rather be doing sport than watching it.  16 - 18 knots so took the nugget out at Hampton.  I'm definitely improving my gybing game.

 yep, in close

 Max and Noy came down to bring us lunch and film us so mostly showing off.  Tried to head out later to the surf and everyone was already coming in.

In close

 rinse and repeat, some early action in close then out to ufos again.  Wind is ridiculously good.

  A bit of early showing off for our visitors (Max, Noy, Swiss lady and Perth guy) followed by super fun surfing session at ufos - again !

 If it worked on day 3, why change ?  Follow up the surfing session with a jumps session.

 Straight out to ufos for more surfing.

 Following on from the surf session, once the tide got a bit lower we hit up a jumping session close to the kite beach.  Yay !

 We took the scooters down to the beach -game changer.  Really fun trip down through farmers fields, and the autonomy to come and go as we please.  Headed straight out to the surf and had a fun session at bagus before going and checking out the longer reef right in front of the kiting beach.  We termed it "ufos" because of the ufo shaped island in front of it.  Turns out this is a super long break and fantastic fun.  Spent most of the session just going up and down ufos and having a ball.

 Wind picked up enough to do fun stuff so just went back and forth in the flat water for a while, with a quick trip out to check out the surf.  Water was a bit shallow and reefy out there so came back quickly.

 We took the car to the beach again - and thought we would only need small kites.  Mistake.  The wind wasn't that strong on the beach.  A quick first session where I was working the kite a lot.

 After flying to Denpasar, we grabbed a quick meal for $3.50 (wow) and spent the night in Bali.  The domestic transfer was chaotic of course, but we eventually landed in Lombok and were greeted at the airport by Max.  He had bought a fisherman to help us strap boards onto the roof - which looked very dubious at first - but worked a treat.  After about 1.5 hours we arrived at Panorama Ekkas - a fantastic setup right on the beach.  Max was friendly and amazing, he'd organised a ride for us really quickly to the kiting beach so our dream of going kiting on the first day could become a reality. The ride to the kiting beach was interesting - heaps of potholes, very slow going in the car.  Just over an hour to get there - but we were greeted by an incredible beach, fantastic wind and smiles all round.  It was about 27 knots - heaving - so we went small kites.  We - Stu Styles, Pete, Ant and I - mucked around in the beautiful shallow flat water for a whi...