Packages that won't break the bank

We’ve summarised our range of surf trips that won’t break the bank.  If you combine approx. 1 week with a low cost airfare you should be able to get all these trips below for under $2000.  Some trips for well under and some trips might JUST go over.  Check out the range and if a trip appeals to you then contact the friendly sales team at World Surfaris to book your ticket to ride !. 

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Hi All,

We’ve been having some awesome internet troubles lately so it’s good to get back online and be part of the 21st Century again. After  a few days awol it’s time to post a blog… So here goes.

Scardy (Kirra Office/ big wave charger/ nut job/ good guy) rang me up on Tuesday asking for a sick image for a poster they need down in the Gold Coast office. As we had no internet we needed offline stuff to do – long story short the surf travel pics we found (and there hundreds more) were just too good not to share. So we thought we’d post them to you and see what you reckon.  I reckon it’s time for a surf trip.

Enjoy the eye candy

Cheers WS .

PS – Get In Early Sale Ends Dec 16th so if you’re keen to make 2012 you year and get some of your own perfection like the pics – click here and save

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Hi All,

So we finally figured out the internet and have got some awesome pictures of P-Pass for you. Amy is doing a bang up job and as always Pohnpei Surf Club is living up to and exceeding  expectations. Summer is here folks and the North Swells have arrived with the long, balmy days.  Bad news for us back in Aus though onshore North Easters, Stingers, crowds and Kite surfers (not that there’s anything wrong with that).   If you’re on the East Coast you’re probably going stir crazy with the lack of quality swell and the forecast is looking depressing too. Hope the pics help, with more swell on the way for the Caroline Islands you can always book a trip and score. Other wise…. maybe …. kite surfing?

Enjoy WS

From Amy herself

After two weeks of small waves and big fish, the first swell of the season hit Palikir Pass on Saturday the 5^th of November. It was a beauty. Allois and Scardy had both noticed a storm developing over Japan a week earlier and made the call that one of the Worlds most perfect waves was about to show her face. But when we motored out for a look late in the afternoon on the 4^th good waves were hard to imagine – the swell was tiny and mixed up and quite uninviting. After a quick snorkel it was back to Pohnpei Surf Club for Sashimi and another look at the swell charts. However, Allois assured us that we didn’t need to check any sites as he was quite sure it would be on in the morning, so the boats and boards were prepared for an early start.

Motoring down the river from PSC in the misty morning light is an experience in itself. Moments like these are a big part of the lure of surf travel. As travelling surfers, we often find ourselves in some of the most stunningly beautiful locations, admiring scenery that would justify the journey alone. But on this day we had another agenda – barrels! As we reached the pass it was clear that Allois’s swell had arrived – head high sets were breaking every ten minutes or so, though it was suffering from a mild case of morning sickness and wasn’t really barreling. We hit it anyway and soon realized that it was still super fun, in fact all the new arrivals seemed quite happy that they didn’t have to paddle straight out into heaving pits! Though within a few hours, that’s exactly what we had! It was an incredible transformation but there it was, right before us, absolute perfection. The day became an orgy of tube riding. Every wave that broke would barrel. If you made the drop and set your rail, you got barreled. Even when the wind briefly swung light onshore guys were getting eight second shacks.

As we motored back to PSC the sun slipped under the clouds giving us a crazy light show to perfectly end an epic day.

The next few days are a blur of barrels. Everyone surfed themselves to exhaustion spending a ridiculous amount of time in the tube. It was big, it was clean, it was perfect.

See you soon.

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Hi all,

On Friday we posted the warm up to the inaugural Coast Of Origin  Final. The event pitched the best Sunshine Coast surfers against the best Gold Coast surfers and was held this weekend just past (8th and 9th of October). The conditions were small but the event still played host to some great surfing and fierce competition. Congratulations to the Sunshine Coast who took home the crown.

World Surfaris are proud to continue their support as the prime sponsor of the Coast of Origin and very proud to be representing Surfing at this core grass roots level.

Read on for full details from Surfing Queensland.

PS – Big Thanks to our friends at Leaked Media for web casting all the action love from Duranbah

Gold Coast, Queensland, Saturday, 9th October 2011: THE Sunshine Coast has claimed a historic victory over arch rivals the Gold Coast in the inaugural Surfing Queensland Coast-of-Origin Interclub Series presented by World Surfaris.

The seven-event series, which sees surfers of all disciplines, from all over the state not only represent their respective boardriding clubs, but also their region and ultimately their ‘coast,’ – culminating today in a thrilling conclusion with the Sunshine Coast super-team edging out the Gold Coast by only one-point 269 to 268.

0.5m waves at Duranbah Beach (Gold Coast, Qld), tested competitors throughout the day, however, that didn’t dampen the spirits of Queensland’s grass-roots surfing community, as longboarders, shortboarders and SUP surfers of all ages and abilities came together in an amazing interclub competition.

Over 20 Queensland boardriding clubs from Noosa to Coolangatta converged on the Gold Coast, with upwards of 200 competitors taking part in the weekend’s event.

2011 Coast of Origin Results:

Coast of Origin Champions: The Sunshine Coast
Shortboard Club Champions: Snapper Rocks (Gold Coast, Qld)
Shortboard Tag Team Champions: Snapper Rocks (Gold Coast, Qld)
Longboard Club Champions: Burleigh Heads Longboard Club (Gold Coast, Qld)
Longboard Tag Team Champions: North Shore Boardriders (Sunshine Coast, Qld)
SUP Club Champions: Sunshine Coast SUP (Sunshine Coast, Qld)

As part of their sponsorship of the 2011 Coast-of-Origin series, World Surfaris is also offering members of Surfing Queensland affiliated Boardriders Clubs the chance to score Polynesian perfection with a trip for two to Sa’Moana Resort in surf-rich and idyllic Samoa.
Visit www.worldsurfaris.com/coastoforigin for your chance to WIN!

Surfing Queensland’s Coast-of-Origin Interclub Series is proudly supported by World Surfaris, XXXX Summer Bright Larger, Australia’s Surfing Life, Sunshine Coast Surf Magazine, GC Surf Magazine and Surfing Queensland.

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Hi All,

The exciting conclusion is drawing near! World Surfaris proudly announce that the 2011 Surfing Queensland Coast-of-Origin Interclub Series concludes this weekend. With super-teams from the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast going head-to-head for Queensland surfing supremacy in the series’ third and final State Challenge round. Running from October 8-9, the event will showcase the state’s most talented club surfers across shortboard, longboard and stand-up-paddleboard.Over 20 Queensland boardriding clubs from Noosa to Coolangatta will converge on the Gold Coast, with upwards of 200 competitors deciding once and for all, which region has the best surfers – the Sunshine Coast or the Gold Coast?

Surfing Queensland has announced the Wild Card entrants that will be competing in this weekend’s Final.

As Follows;

Gold Coast top surfers

Longboard –

Mark MacNamara- Australian Longboard titles,numerous state titles.

Nev Smith- over 50’s national titles, numerous state titles

SUP

Jenny Ryan finalist in 2011 Australian SUP titles

Shortboard

Amiya Doyle in 2011 Australian ISA team.

Chris “Ibis” Bennetts(North End) QCC competitor, competed in the Quik Pro Trails last year.

Anthony Pol(MNM) Powerhouse standout surfer from the Gold Coast for 10 years

Kyle “ Devex” Robinson- 3 in a row devecio- 3 times Burleigh single-fin champion.Rep Qld numerous times.

Jay Phillips – Ex-WQS surfer and Coolangatta stand out.

Mark “Richo” Richardson – Past Australian Champion, and numerous state titles

Angie Koops – QLD womens Champ 2011- Quik Trails competitor 2012

Will Morrisson – Alley Pro Junior talent

Josh Hyland – Burleigh Grom champ and up and coming junior talent

Wayne”Rabbitt” Bartholemew – 1978 World Champion

Sunshine Coast top surfers

Longboard –

Nic Jones – QLD Junior Champion and Australian runner up 2011

Katherine Hughes – QLD representative at 2011 Australian titles

SUP

Tully St John – Local surfboard shaper and former shortboard professional surfer

Shortboard

Eli Steele – QLD junior team representative and up-and-coming junior talent

Tom Cervi – Pro junior stand-out

Trevor Tripcony – QCC champion 2007, Qld team representative 2011 Open Men shortboard

Chianna Ireland – QLD team representative 2011 Open Women shortboard

Bridget McCulloch –

Sophie Callister – 2^nd place QLD Open Womens Championship 2011, QLD team representative

Hayden Cervi – Grom stand-out and future pro junior talent

Ziggy Alberts – Pro Junior

Reef Heazelwood – Occy Groms Camp standout.

World Surfaris proudly announce live coverage of the event with help form our friends at Leaked Media.  All the action starts 8am (Queensland time) Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of October to view it LIVE from Duranbah (D-bah)- Click here

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Hi All,

So reports are still coming in from the Indian Ocean and it looks good – Damn Good! The whole 2011 season has been a corker as far as consistency and size has been concerned.  2012 is looking like another La-Nina year  (at least that’s what the Weather Bureau is saying). A lot of people have chalked up the surf and consistency throughout both Pacific and Indian Ocean to this atmospheric phenomenon so by all accounts its looking like 2012 is going to be another cracker.

But lets just get one thing down and clear! It’s the Indian Ocean, there is going to be surf no matter what, that massive wet gap between Australia and Africa tends produce swell regardless even on its worst day its still better than a good day at the local (definitely our local ).

So what now? Well its time to Get In Early of course.  World Surfaris have proudly launched their Get In Early Deals for 2012. Operator shave jumped onboard and now is the time to book Early and save on your next Surf Adventure.

To see all the deals – Click Here

PS- We’ve also created a really fun Facebook page full of Surf Stoke from the people that ‘Got In Early’ last year – Click Here (its fun)  Make sure you Get In Early this year sale ends Dec16th – If you need the inspiration check out the below from our participating operators.

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Hi all,

October is almost upon us. 4 more days and the Summer season kicks off there’s some small activity in the northern pacific already as if its waiting and getting ready to send the first small ripples down south to the north facing breaks of Carolines, PNG, Samoa and Tonga.  Summer spots are still pretty open if anyone is keen to escape their locals dismal offerings. If not hopefully these pics will put in good stead and see you through until the next swell arrives.

Enjoy WS:)

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Hi all,

So it’s almost the weekend! The minutes are ticking by at an achingly slow snail pace. It’s about this time that we secretly start checking swell reports and laying the foundations of our perfect weekend and yep! Wouldn’t you know it skunked again….. So when Scardy sent an email through with pics of one of our recent clients shredding the waves in the Maldives (Hudhuranfushi guests Steve and Dane Leslie) a small part of me wanted to cry.

Wherever you are this weekend I hope there is swell with off shore winds, perfect shorey’s and point breaks, left’s and right’s in abundance graciously keeping the crowd spread out and at minimum’s and if not well… these pics may just may just upset you too.

So good luck and have a great weekend…

PS- Happy Fathers Day, for Sunday, to all the dad’s out there.

That means you too dad

Cheers

WS

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Hi All,

Gav Clark our Ocean Dancer surf guide and super medic is on site at Teahupoo for the Billabong Tahiti Pro. Yesterday’s lay day due to the massive swell drew the tow boys out for some of the most death defying surfing ever witnessed. Gav was able to sit in the channel and watch it from the relative ‘safety’ of deeper water. His report as follows with the pics is pretty amazing.

We hope enjoy WS

Hi All

Well the last 2 days have been the most unbelievable days of surfing I have ever seen and I hope you all have been able to witness it on the net.

It started yesterday as finally the predicted swell started to arrive with 8ft plus waves hitting the reef. Due to the wind from the last few days it was far from perfect Chopes but still had some awesome barrels and the level of surfing was awesome.

To day was a whole new kettle of fish as we woke this morning to find a further huge swell had arrived. A lay day was called due to the size and just as well we had evacuated all of our equipment from our medical hut the night before because as the tide came in waves were coming under the judging tower and then surging up over the point and through our hut. Throughout the morning the swell built as had been predicted, the only people who could handle these conditions would be Tow Surfers.

Over the last few days the top tow surfers had been arriving from all over the world in anticipation of this swell and they were not to be disappointed. What we witnessed today was the most unbelievable day of surfing I have ever seen. Due to it being called a lay day and due to French law we are unable to treat people in a official manner, not that did not end up doing that anyway, so seeing that we had the day off Shorty and I decided midmorning to go out and watch the tow surfing. We had been watching it earlier from our house and it looked big but due to the distance was hard to see just how big it was. We scored a lift out from one of the Water Patrol guys and what we saw was mind blowing as we found our selves out amongst the biggest waves I have ever seen.

We spent the best part of 3 hours sitting on our boards watching guys tow into waves ranging from 15 to 25ft plus monster tubes. The scene was unbelievable as the lineup was crowded with jet ski’s, guys on boards and heaps of boats all watching the show of a life time. You just can not describe the feeling of sitting there no more than 10 mtrs away looking into these monster tubes and watching guys get the barrels of their lives and in some cases the hidings  of their lives. This was life and death stuff as we are talking about a 25ft waves breaking in 6ft of water over a razor sharp reef. Almost every person that got nailed, hit the reef and took skin off. The worst of the day was when one of the girls who towed into a smaller wave, flicked off only to be confronted by a huge set behind and it and then two following it which then flogged her to the point of almost drowning. Her only saving grace was that Poto (The best Water Patrolman in Tahiti) was out there and he raced in on his jet ski and grabbed her out of the impact zone. Shorty and I checked her out and found her bleeding from the ear and had swallowed some water so she was jet ski’d back to land and sent to hospital. She joined Dean Morrison there who had a suspected broken ankle and a Brazilian surfer with a serious knee injury from earlier encounters with the reef.

On a lighter note and just to describe the power of these waves, Bruce Irons who just happened to get two of the biggest barrels today, one which we reckon some where between 25 to 30ft got nailed while coming out of his second one and had his boardshorts torn right off and was then was picked up by the jet ski and driven right through the middle of the crowd in the lineup with only his Buoyancy Jacket on much to the delight of the cheering crowd.

As we were about to paddle in, George the guy who takes us out surfing in his boat asked us to jump onboard. He a bunch of Aussie photographers on board so for the rest of the afternoon Shorty and I had the best seat in the house as we were in the number one spot and over the next 3 hours we witnessed the biggest waves and the best barrel riding to be seen. George, the Photographers and even the Water Patrol guys said this was equal or if not bigger and the best waves than anything they had ever seen before.

Shorty and I finally got back to shore as the sun set, cracked a cold beer or 3 and talked about the most amazing day of surfing we had witnessed and as for my Bucket List, I have now crossed off seeing Chopes in all her glory.

The swell is supposed to drop tomorrow so the comp should be back on again and while it will be probably be in awesome waves I sure it will just be just that bit insignificant after todays events.

Shorty has just arrived with a fresh cold beer so time to catch you later.

Cheers for now.

Gav

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Hi all,

Summer is creeping up, slowly but surely the sun is rising that little bit earlier. Soon we’ll be shedding wet-suits, flicking the tiny beads of sweat from our brows and frustratingly kicking the sheets off at night as we listen to rhythmic tappings of ceiling fans, the incessant noise both comforting and frustrating – Personally I can’t wait. This Winter has seemed a little overbearing plus its hard to get up in the cold and the dark to catch the AM surf and the sun sets before you can get the afternoon one in. Don’t get me wrong, this Winter has been kind to Australia.  Swell has come in and smothered our coastlines like an welcome hug from a fat, over zealous aunt. But I’m over sniffles, cold feet and wrestling in and out of the rubber suit I want board shorts, bikinis and the greasy coconut smell of  wax melting in the  sunshine. Summer won’t be the Coca Cola advert I’m imaging, I always feel cheated by this but its not the first time we’ve been lied to by a corporate beverage company and it won’t be the last. However peering out from the end of this Winter over the dizzying heights of a Summer filled with potential and promise I can’t help but to feel optimistic. So here’s to a Summer riddled with Surf, Sunshine, scantly clad beach bodies and gloriously long days followed by warm nights and if not….. well there’s always a Summer Surf Escape. Here’s some pics of previous Summer’s from the Carolines, Tonga, Samoa and PNG.

Just to set the mood……

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