August & September in the Maldives has been Mental!
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Words By Ben Horvath.
All Photos and Video by Andy Potts C/O The Perfect Wave.
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I just spent the first two weeks of September in the Maldives, and everywhere I turned, local surfers and tourists couldn’t help themselves with “you should been here yesterday” taunts.
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You see, I arrived at the beautiful Kandooma Resort just south of the capital Male a few days after the best fortnight of swell in the entire 2017 season.
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Late August in the Maldives, both up in the Male Atolls, the Centrals and even down South, was the best it has been all year. A solid SE swell, combined with favourable light offshore winds, ensuring all the left and right reefs were smooth, clean and cooking with gas every day for two consecutive weeks.
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Vaughan Blakey, SW editor, said: “ I scored the best trip of my life, surfing 6-8ft Jails, Cokes and a secret session not too far from Male.”
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Kandooma was all time according to local guides Liuttey, Unco and co., whilst Brian and Joey James concurred that Cokes and Chickens were as good as they get in late August.
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Whilst I missed the late August goodness, a staple diet of consistent 2-5ft waves that included uncrowded Kandooma and Riptides in the 2-4ft range for a week, followed by a second week on The Perfect Wave Naera, surfing 2-5ft Cokes, Chickens, Jails and Sultans, was more than enough to stoke this ageing old grommet out.
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The Maldives rules. Yeeow!
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