The wave in Lagundri Bay on Nias can get big. Like, really big. Big enough to flip boats. Big enough to get the biggest, scariest, throatiest tube you’ll ever get. Big enough to send a lot of surfers down to the bottom and into the beach, tail tucked tightly between their legs. On August 12-13, Nias was… perfect. Absolutely perfect.
With a solid south swell running, calm winds, and big tide swings, it offered up some of the best barrels found anywhere in the world. Those lucky enough to be there will likely never forget the session, unless they blacked out from sheer excitement.
“Some people said it was the best surf of their life,” said Surf Raw Files on YouTube. “The conditions were really, really perfect. Huge, round, open tunnels with sometimes up to an eight-second barrel time and no wind or calm offshore.”
