Hi All, wondering if anyone has any feed back on staying on this island? Looking at taking the family for a week or so next year, not keen on staying on one of the fully controlled resort/ wave islands and though this place looked Ok, appears to have free access to Cokes itself but I may be wrong, any feed back appreciated. Thanks.

If you don't mind hanging with the Israeli's you will be fine.
They will even paddle to the inside to test drive every wave for you as well

Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

So I'm assuming he's mixing work with pleasure
Carry on like that and there'd be more than a few lining up to kill him.

Surfed cokes and absolute magic wave, but didnt stay at the camp.
Couple years ago now but they didnt have exclusive access than????
I have stayed at pasta and at kandooma....pasta is magic and kandooma if its on is a right and better than pasta but half as consistent.
Pasta has exclusive access to pasta point and max 25 surfers with kandooma numbers similar.

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

A different attitude on life, that's for sure. Fortunately it was only the one day that we were at the same place...
Love the Maldives. Warm water surfing, can't beat it.

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

A different attitude on life, that's for sure. Fortunately it was only the one day that we were at the same place...
Love the Maldives. Warm water surfing, can't beat it.

Was he as bad as he sounds? Did he drop in or was it bravado?

The time I was there I surfed a lot of the places to myself.
Stayed at Lohi's when the prices were reasonable and made the most of the twice daily boat trips.
Unfortunately at times you come across nationalities who have a different interpretation of the surfing unspoken rules.
I often wonder how they would behave if they travelled to Hawaii.

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JulianRoss said..

DARTH said..

JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

A different attitude on life, that's for sure. Fortunately it was only the one day that we were at the same place...
Love the Maldives. Warm water surfing, can't beat it.

Was he as bad as he sounds? Did he drop in or was it bravado?

He was a bad as he sounds. Drop in, snake , paddle in front when positioning. A guy who I didn't know, saw what was happening to most of the crew out there decided to return the serve; when the Israeli guy took off on a set wave, he dropped in on a huge mal, went straight and explained to the bloke to expect more of the same if he didn't pul his head in! It was a case of swift justice.

I nearly got T boned driving to the beach this morning
It seems like a regular thing every time I jump in the car
I could be killed
Therefore I'm going to paddle out and snake and drop in on everyone

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JulianRoss said..

DARTH said..

JulianRoss said..

DARTH said..

JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

A different attitude on life, that's for sure. Fortunately it was only the one day that we were at the same place...
Love the Maldives. Warm water surfing, can't beat it.

Was he as bad as he sounds? Did he drop in or was it bravado?

He was a bad as he sounds. Drop in, snake , paddle in front when positioning. A guy who I didn't know, saw what was happening to most of the crew out there decided to return the serve; when the Israeli guy took off on a set wave, he dropped in on a huge mal, went straight and explained to the bloke to expect more of the same if he didn't pul his head in! It was a case of swift justice.

Haha, nice.

Reminds me of my trip to kandooma
fun waves and a good easy going crew until 3 isralies turned up, only one could surf and the other two made dropping in an art form

i gave one of them a gentle push out of the way haha bad mistake, you realize how small the island is after that

Good thing they are banned from Indo

slightly off topic but re Kandooma what size have you guys that have been had it and what time of year?

I was there for 10 days peak time (July) and never saw more than 1 foot...

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Bara said..
slightly off topic but re Kandooma what size have you guys that have been had it and what time of year?

I was there for 10 days peak time (July) and never saw more than 1 foot...

Sorry
I haven't been to Kandooma

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TimKay said..
Good thing they are banned from Indo

Really?

Went in august, surfed it from 2 - 5ft
it gets better the bigger it gets as it hollows out a bit more

i think the isralies aren't allowed to info because of the Muslim / Jew thing but I may be wrong
( it's pretty sad really)

Apparently it's because Indonesia and Israel don't share diplomatic relations
I think they can still get in on another countries passport but not generally
I have no problem with this arrangement

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Apparently it's because Indonesia and Israel don't share diplomatic relations
I think they can still get in on another countries passport but not generally
I have no problem with this arrangement

but maldives is more hardcore muslim than indos....

shame they cant be banned from there too if thats the way they want to carry on.

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Jimmytwotouc said..
Went in august, surfed it from 2 - 5ft
it gets better the bigger it gets as it hollows out a bit more

i think the isralies aren't allowed to info because of the Muslim / Jew thing but I may be wrong
( it's pretty sad really)

5 foot kandooma would have been 12 foot everywhere else. maybe i was just unlucky but the crew that paid for their exclusive surf break were pretty pissed at the time!

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JulianRoss said..

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a fun trip

A different attitude on life, that's for sure. Fortunately it was only the one day that we were at the same place...
Love the Maldives. Warm water surfing, can't beat it.

Was he as bad as he sounds? Did he drop in or was it bravado?

He was a bad as he sounds. Drop in, snake , paddle in front when positioning. A guy who I didn't know, saw what was happening to most of the crew out there decided to return the serve; when the Israeli guy took off on a set wave, he dropped in on a huge mal, went straight and explained to the bloke to expect more of the same if he didn't pul his head in! It was a case of swift justice.

Zilla's are wonderful in comparison to Israelis in the water. As a rash generalisation "oxygen thieves" Have never come across a good one in the water, plenty onshore, top people, but not in the water overseas. Probably frothing for some waves after national service but either way, don't seem to care about any other soul in the water.

Late 90's a good buddy had a run in with some in Sri Lanka. Read two of them the riot act for being pricks in the water. When he went in they were waiting for him on the beach. Unfortunately for them, he just happened to be a life long exponent of Zen Do Kai, unfortunately for him there were quite a number of them staying in the same area and a collective revenge was coordinated a couple of nights later whilst he was asleep with is girlfriend.

He was pretty sore for a few weeks after that, apparently she still suffers nightmares.

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JulianRoss said..
Bumped into a couple of Israeli's at Sultans one year. I politely suggested that as we were all on a holiday, it would be nice of them to respect the drop in and snaking code. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said: when you go back to work, you have to deal with a broken photocopier. When I go back to work there will be people trying to kill me. I will take any wave that I want.......

Sounds like a great off season motivator.

I remember being in Sth America a few years back and there being signs at back packers stating "No Israeli's"
Definitely wouldn't happen in Australia
We are too politically correct for that

Ummm I believe that is rascism you refer too good sirr - not a case of political correctness on Australia's part more like choosing not to be rascist

Its amazing... I really don't consider myself racist but when i look at it and realise that the horror stories ive ever had in the water have predominantly been Zillas and to a lesser extent Israelis, but find people of both nationalities among my circle of close and dear friends and have had pleasant experiences with both nationalities outside of surfing on land.

I'm a surfing racist ! - can we coin a new term perhaps " Suracist" ? I'm a little disappointed with myself. Was....Over it now.

Like it or not when you travel abroad your representing your country.
We only have to look at the affect of the Bali Bogans in Kuta to see what impression Aussies have made overseas.
As far as not liking to surf with a particular nationality. If you get screwed over continuously its human nature not to like them, not racism.

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TimKay said..
Like it or not when you travel abroad your representing your country.
We only have to look at the affect of the Bali Bogans in Kuta to see what impression Aussies have made overseas.
As far as not liking to surf with a particular nationality. If you get screwed over continuously its human nature not to like them, not racism.

My thoughts exactly Tim, Aussies like everyone get tarred with the same brush with Rash generalisations, generally as a result of the poor behaviors, not the positive ones.