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June 16th, 2010
The season is going well, in fact as of now we're fully booked until October 9th, 2010. We're looking forward to all the return and new guests arriving on the island. The swell has been good this season so far, with a lot of 200 - 210 swells coming in. We've had some great days, big and perfect.
Also, we're stoked to announce that we've released our dates and rates for 2011. We're stepping up our services again in 2011, utilizing the services of the Mentawai Charter Boat. We're expecting to get our guests across the channel in 4 hours or less, in air conditioned comfort. This is a huge step for us, as since 1998 we've had challenges galore trying to figure out the best way to get our guests from Padang - Mentawai return. With this new service, we know we're onto the best option in the Mentawais for getting guests from A - B.
April 7th, 2010
This morning at 5:15am local time, a 7.7 earthquake was experienced. We DID NOT feel anything at WavePark, and only knew something had happened by the television that the crew watches during the morning. Thank you for all the concerned emails from friends and family.
From USGS:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010utc5.php#summary
The Banyak Islands, Sumatra earthquake of April 6, 2010 occurred as a result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction interface plate boundary between the Australia-India and Sunda plates. At the location of this earthquake, the Australia and India Plates move north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at a velocity of approximately 60-65 mm/yr. On the basis of the currently available fault mechanism information and earthquake depth, it is likely that this earthquake occurred along the plate interface.
The subduction zone surrounding the immediate region of this event last slipped during the Mw 8.6 earthquake of March 2005, and today's event appears to have occurred within the rupture zone of that earthquake. Today's earthquake is the latest in a sequence of large ruptures along the Sunda megathrust, including two M 7.4 earthquakes beneath Simeulue 125 km to the north in 2002 and 2008; a M 9.1 earthquake that ruptured to within 125 km north of this earthquake in 2004; a M 8.5 375 km to the south in 2007; and a M 7.5 260 km to the south near Padang in 2009.
March 24th, 2010
The season started smoothly yesterday with the 6 guests trying out our new speedboat transport. 3.5 hours across the channel, and although the weather was kinda iffy, they got through in the end.
Just like to say thank to all the people who helped us with our new house/office in the off-season; demolition, construction, painting, making furniture, supplies, etc. Alice, Dave and Doreen, Thea, Ucok, Henny, Edi and Rita, Mon, Mas, Luke and Kristin, our parents, and anybody else I've forgotten.
Now we've got a comfortable place to call our own for the next 2 years, as well as a new WavePark office to base our Padang operations out of.
January 10th, 2010
Happy New Year! I've decided on my top 21 photographs from 2009, and posted them on Hot Off the Press . We've got more to come including the best wipeouts of 2009, and the photographer's picks, so stay tuned.
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