{"id":46347,"date":"2014-02-21T04:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T04:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theperfectwave.com.au\/blog\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2020-02-13T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T04:52:07","slug":"incredible-surf-in-png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/magazine\/uncrowded\/incredible-surf-in-png\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible surf in PNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our friend and professional surf photographer Joel Coleman of Saltmotion Photography is currently on a trip on board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/surf-trips\/remote-pacific\/papua-new-guinea\/png-explorer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PNG Explorer<\/a> &#8211; surf charter in Papua New Guinea. If you imagine empty Pacific barrels, no crowds, lots of fish caught, and a variety of quality&nbsp; setups and great vibe with fantastic food (think lobsters for dinner), then you are right!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PNG Explorer have only 6 last spots available on 2013\/14 season trips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surfers can spend their whole lives in a search of a wave like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7596 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"Korangai PNG\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/saltmotion_img_8968_2014_02_19.jpg\" alt=\"Korangai PNG\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 690px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 690\/460;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7596 aligncenter\" title=\"Korangai PNG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/saltmotion_img_8968_2014_02_19.jpg\" alt=\"Korangai PNG\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Korangai is truly an incredible setup and a very consistent wave. And it is so mechanical it is ridiculous. Once it gets big it might take anyone a while to master it, but once you learn how to take off quickly and tuck in, you will get barrelled before it spits you out for a short paddle back to catch one after another &#8211; all day long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! Our friend and professional surf photographer Joel Coleman of Saltmotion Photography is currently on a trip on board PNG Explorer &#8211; surf charter in Papua New Guinea. If you imagine empty Pacific barrels, no crowds, lots of fish caught, and a variety of quality&nbsp; setups and great vibe with fantastic food (think lobsters<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/magazine\/uncrowded\/incredible-surf-in-png\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,187],"tags":[451,321,239],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}