INDONESIA SURF TRIP, no one surfing -
John, i'm starting to doubt you'll get people interested even if YOU paid them to go with you.
Those waves in the video are below average for Indo, add in that you'll be there and going to jail is sounding more appealing.
If nothing else JC has done a good job stirring the pot in an entertaining thread.
Aw not a hypocrite ... who in the past has started multiple threads about his own goings on,trips to cactus , now indo, flora and fauna etc etc but gets offended when someone else does .... "not even a paying subscriber "
Even burls is indignant!
Keep it up!
basesix][quote=john.callahan wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:john.callahan wrote:Supafreak wrote:Can you post the video , I can’t find it .
As a bird observer I go to remote areas of Indo , I’m also a surfer, whilst birding, one of my eyes is always on the coastline, I watch swells and birds . They are both things of beauty. AW
I actually mention in one of the Pacific Indonesia chapters in THE BOOK that the only people that rival surfers in their fanatical commitment are birdwatchers, that they are willing to climb and camp anywhere from misty mountains to soggy swamps to find rare birds and deserve our admiration and respect.
wow!!! finally, something moderately engaging about this book.. a quirk, an anecdote, some sort of personality! BIRDS!! (I spend time in a western surf place where trout fishing and bird watching is about all they have going on, tourism-wise.. )
I assume it is not an exhaustive reference book, as it has come across, with the page counts, word counts, and ummm.... not much else.. so will need some juice, some quirks.. like birds!).. you are NEARLY making conversation, and therefore, NEARLY marketing on a site @calhoun..
well done to you, sir!
Not a reference book at all - nor is it an Atlas of the World's Best Waves, etc.
Quite entertaining, one of the Haiti chapters feature an encounter with an authentic Haitian Zombie, a product of the Voudou belief system, etc
I shall stop that nonsense immediately - members of the Swellnet constituency are getting too excited for the release and may STORM the nearest available bookstore to get their hands on a copy of surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide after 29 September.
We have to consider property damage, etc.
john.callahan wrote:AlfredWallace wrote:john.callahan wrote:Supafreak wrote:You post a video of a so called secret spot for us to guess where it is, I failed geography on that one.
I think the footage is from somewhere east of Waigeo and west of. Vanimo (Papua New Guinea) or on the ‘right arm’ of NE Sulawesi on the Minihasa Peninsula, colour of the water in both locations reminds me of the geology of those areas.Wrong again - not even close.
I guess since the waves suck so bad you wouldn't be interested in knowing where it is -
And yes - we were in Morotai in 2004, we were out surfing when the Rip Curl boat came from around the corner and saw that we were already there, ha ha.
You can see a seleção of that material at this link -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?family=creative&phrase=J...
Like I said, I don't make claims unless I can back it up
When you are ready to sign up for the surfEXPLORE Secret Indonesia project, let me know -you might learn something.
how awesome is this doco of crusty seadog paul johnson in the carribean at a begrudging 80 years of age:
Rather disappointing - not a single person can name the location in the video.
Instead, they have to badmouth the quality of the waves to divert attention from their lack of knowledge.
Not a single person can name the Indian Ocean Indonesia location for Callahan's Secret Indonesia Surf Trip - so they badmouth the cost structure to divert attention from their lack of knowledge.
Not as smart nor as knowledgable as they think they are.
Maybe you should sign up and make your USD $1500 deposit for the project and you could learn something from someone who actually knows what they are talking about - and is NOT just another bulldust distributor, with their vague descriptions of locations and allusions to "knowing things".
^^ he was a good-natured lush, a womaniser, a pot head, a talented boat builder, lived below the poverty line intentionally in the W.Indies, where he was loved by the local villagers. Sailed across the atlantic alone at 16, (crossed it 39 times since!) turned his back on a military career to live how he wanted on a boat with whatever woman he could convince to duck out of life for a few years. Interesting (certainly unique) cat. Lotsa weather stuff, too. Brilliantly filmed and put together.
“ Like I said, I don't make claims unless I can back it up “ …………..you claimed you know where the waves are of the pictures I posted but haven’t backed that up so I will take your word with a grain of salt . I’m not interested in your mystical waves as after watching that video I wouldn’t bother searching when there’s far better waves to be had . Charging top dollar for B & C grade waves , while staying in basic accommodation with basic indo meals is in my opinion a scam . The photos of the waves I put up have been surfed for over 3 decades and still remain virtually uncrowded , thankfully you haven’t found them . Have you thought about hiring a PR firm ?
You can fly to bali, head up the coast and get uncrowded waves of the same caliber without needing to pay the worlds biggest fuckwit.
basesix wrote:^^ he was a good-natured lush, a womaniser, a pot head, a talented boat builder, lived below the poverty line intentionally in the W.Indies, where he was loved by the local villagers. Sailed across the atlantic alone at 16, (crossed it 39 times since!) turned his back on a military career to live how he wanted on a boat with whatever woman he could convince to duck out of life for a few years. Interesting (certainly unique) cat. Lotsa weather stuff, too. Brilliantly filmed and put together.
Did you watch it base? Sounds captivating. Could be tonight’s entertainment I reckon.
Moonah wrote:Did you watch it base? Sounds captivating. Could be tonight’s entertainment I reckon.
yeh, it's great.. if you feel like slow-paced, quiet, calm, reflective.. I love that kind of thing. My kids affectionately refer to it as my taste in good-boring movies. he's a feeble old feller with a leathery patina that makes iggy pop look like a newborn in the film. He needs the help of the kind people around him, it is kinda just him over a couple of weeks alone on his boat in a village harbour in Carriacou, popping into the shops, fixing his boat, trying to work out what the end of an astonishing life well-lived is about..
"Life is a free one-way ticket. All stops, no returns." paul johnson
Supafreak wrote:“ Like I said, I don't make claims unless I can back it up “ …………..you claimed you know where the waves are of the pictures I posted but haven’t backed that up so I will take your word with a grain of salt . I’m not interested in your mystical waves as after watching that video I wouldn’t bother searching when there’s far better waves to be had . Charging top dollar for B & C grade waves , while staying in basic accommodation with basic indo meals is in my opinion a scam . The photos of the waves I put up have been surfed for over 3 decades and still remain virtually uncrowded , thankfully you haven’t found them . Have you thought about hiring a PR firm ?
…cockhead calhoun:
- “ I can see very well where YOUR secret spots are, having been there before it is rather obvious. “
^ go on then ya fuckn cockhead ;)
… oooops ;);)
- or keep throwing ya stones and talking yaself up whilst providing no evidence that you are ummm “… NOT just another bulldust distributor, with their vague descriptions of locations and allusions to "knowing things".
“ That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
-George Carlin
…take it away dennis calhoun
;);)
?si=PYZR6mTZbPIFprAg basesix wrote:"Life is a free one-way ticket. All stops, no returns." paul johnson
Great line. Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like a good watch.
It sent my mind to Hilltop Hoods. Love the lyrics of this one but especially the moment "Ain't it amazing how courageous human beings are?"
?si=WFqCCxJ4jJFMR2xq Supafreak wrote:Charging top dollar for B & C grade waves
Being generous there SF......
…all inclusive cook your own crabs (& calhoun cooling fans)
;)
& back at camp, around the bonfire, the punters gather to pay tribute to the great calhoun - the mysterious delirious shart spurting self glorified septic tank of ‘published learning’…
…the package also includes (for the mandatory price of US $5000) nightly compulsory honorary campfire lectures by captain calhoun, covering such topics as ‘the promise of zionism - introduction to exploding babies vs crushed under rubble bones’ …..also, the ever popular ‘hand over your money and then only then be ordered around and told what to do by a narcissist cockhead’ …& who could resist the opportunity to participate in the surfexploit flagship adaptation of the bestselling audiobook ‘come on holiday in a remote place and reminisce about the glorious character traits of michael rapaport’.
&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
I focus wrote:Supafreak wrote:Charging top dollar for B & C grade waves
Being generous there SF......
you haven't commented on my guess above, @john.calhoun..
3hr flight from JKTA to BUW on Lion or Batik, 5 or 6 hrs all up,
depending which stopover) super air jet CGK, don't know that one..
dunno what the messing about in boats was about,
didn't ferry? or just a 3 hour drive north on Jelan Anoa..
do yourself a favour if you go, pull off at nambo,
and get a feed at the little warung.
(give me $1500, and I'll give you the emails of the chaps
who got a specific area blocked on google maps and earth)
“ Like I said, I don't make claims unless I can back it up “ …………..you claimed you know where the waves are of the pictures I posted but haven’t backed that up so I will take your word with a grain of salt.
john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island , here’s a hint , you’re on the wrong island chain for starters. AW knows where it is , guess he knows more than you give him credit for .
- participation trophy engraving …calhoun you fraudulent goon
(not even close haha)
;)
?si=QJTMImp8gXog6mXj basesix wrote:you haven't commented on my guess above, @john.calhoun..
3hr flight from JKTA to BUW on Lion or Batik, 5 or 6 hrs all up,
depending which stopover) super air jet CGK, don't know that one..
dunno what the messing about in boats was about,
didn't ferry? or just a 3 hour drive north on Jelan Anoa..
do yourself a favour if you go, pull off at nambo,
and get a feed at the little warung.
(give me $1500, and I'll give you the emails of the chaps
who got a specific area blocked on google maps and earth)
Ummmm, no -
Betoambari Airport (Indonesian: Bandara Betoambari) (IATA: BUW, ICAO: WAWB) is a public airport near Baubau, a city in the province of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Not even close.
huh, no rainbolt award for me..
hang on... no way you'd tell us if we knew.
This isn't a fun game.
how you going with @Supa's quiz?
Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island .
john.callahan wrote:Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island .
You can deny the obvious if you want, but it is very clear - the trees are the same.
No they’re not
Just similar
john.callahan wrote:john.callahan wrote:Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island .
You can deny the obvious if you want, but it is very clear - the trees are the same.
Yeah they’re the only coconut trees in indo , FMD you complete moron , you’re on the wrong island chain . As I thought , you’re just a legend in your own lunchbox .
…denying the obvious
;)
?si=bToZq6HR8ZEzJdlO & introducing the latest spot for pioneering snake oil ‘entrepreneurs’ ;)
…it is very clear
- bwahahaha
john.callahan wrote:
Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.…………..Take a closer look, is that another island in the background of your photo ? Seems to have disappeared in mine. 
Can't compare the trees very well but those 2 backside turns are equally strange
Same place, small , medium & large. 
Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:john.callahan wrote:Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island .
You can deny the obvious if you want, but it is very clear - the trees are the same.
Yeah they’re the only coconut trees in indo , FMD you complete moron , you’re on the wrong island chain . As I thought , you’re just a legend in your own lunchbox .
Reckon supas wave is south of the other pics posted??
Keep it coming gentlemen.....
Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:Like I said, this kind of exercise is rather routine for someone of my knowledge and experience - look at the trees.
Years have passed but the coconut palms are still the same - the seafloor rose some 2 meters after the March 2005 earthquake in this area, but the trees are the same.
More here -
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phraseprocessing=default...
Hahahaha nice try but no cigar , at least take a wild guess and name the island , here’s a hint , you’re on the wrong island chain for starters. AW knows where it is , guess he knows more than you give him credit for .
Oh, John this is a great game , haven’t you worked it out yet.
We know nothing about any of your secret spots, we just bait you over and over, your rage builds to a crescendo, your ego comes boiling to the surface, you stutter, stammer and then spill your egotistical guts all over yourself , what a mess, you simply cannot conclude that others might know a bit about ‘your secret spots’, because you are the only one who is meant to know anything about them, because when you first appeared on our great Swellnet, you told us.
‘I am John Seaton Callahan UCLA graduate etc.etc. World renowned surfEXPLORER,author , surf travel guide, keeper of all the worlds secret surf spots’
Your rebuttals are comical and come at speed because nobody is meant to know more about the caper than you. How dare us.
Just listen to yourself, appears as though you’ve been travelling on the ‘ship of fools’ all your life. What do you actually do when things go wrong ?
Oh the ‘horror’ (M.Brando)
If we keep working you over in this manner, inadvertently you will release many of the names and or videos of your secret waves, its how it goes, its about proving to us you do know a bit about the caper, you can’t reinvent human nature.
If you’re up for a geology lesson for the whole region we are all having a ball at discussing, give me a tingle, it might help you locate Supafreaks mystery spots.
You may be surprised to know what many of the islands in Wallacea and Barusa actually do and how they connect or don’t connect to land masses in a submarine way.
Always good to talk , John.
And yes, a year ago I was the first to ascertain where Supas wave was, it took a minute, it’s not always about the wave, coconut palms and island vegetation . A little hint pal, ocean currents drive the planet in all its contexts, plant and animal evolution and distribution, meteorological conditions both upper and lower parts of the atmosphere, but geology tells us about something of the past as well as the present, you obviously don’t know much about that field.
All the best John, carry on with your comedy.
It’s highly entertaining.
You’ve got homework I see, painstakingly trying to work out where Supas wave is, must be eating you up inside.
How’s the uptake of paying customers going, just asking for a friend ? AW
"C - grade" waves, huh?
I am beginning to think you don't know anything about surfing or international surfing locations at all.
Keep in mind NO ONE had ever surfed here before - I did not "hear about it" from anyone, going here was the result of original research.
Plug the name into Instagram and there are less than 100 hashtag postings, all family and friends type images from locals, noting about surfing at all.
Yes, that looks like a "C- grade" lineup
Maybe you need to sign up for the Indian Ocean surfEXPLORE Project, and learn something about waves and locations in Indonesia.
Just saying
They are 100% C grade waves. Any chance you did acid in the 90s JC? Something is seriously fried upstairs
Are you saying NO ONE has surfed where you are going on this trip you are proposing JC?
john.callahan wrote:"C - grade" waves, huh?
I am beginning to think you don't know anything about surfing or international surfing locations at all.
Keep in mind NO ONE had ever surfed here before - I did not "hear about it" from anyone, going here was the result of original research.
Plug the name into Instagram and there are less than 100 hashtag postings, all family and friends type images from locals, noting about surfing at all.
JC the video you posted in my opinion is B grade at best with some C grade waves also . We are talking about Indonesia so A grade is somewhere like Macaroni’s , Greenbush , Lances right . When I did a bit of a blog on my second time to the left that you can’t identify, I rated it as B grade with A grade days when conditions all perfectly lined up . Keep dancing to the beat of your own drum, when does your expedition kick off ? Times a ticking.
Supafreak wrote:john.callahan wrote:"C - grade" waves, huh?
I am beginning to think you don't know anything about surfing or international surfing locations at all.
Keep in mind NO ONE had ever surfed here before - I did not "hear about it" from anyone, going here was the result of original research.
Plug the name into Instagram and there are less than 100 hashtag postings, all family and friends type images from locals, noting about surfing at all.
JC the video you posted in my opinion is B grade at best with some C grade waves also . We are talking about Indonesia so A grade is somewhere like Macaroni’s , Greenbush , Lances right . When I did a bit of a blog on my second time to the left that you can’t identify, I rated it as B grade with A grade days when conditions all perfectly lined up . Keep dancing to the beat of your own drum, when does your expedition kick off ? Times a ticking.
10-12ft fast peeling Lefts that go on until ya grannies undies drop to the floor and breaks for hundreds of metres doesn’t rate as B or C grade in my books,
What would I/we know.
We are dealing with a single guy sociopath, who is so desperate to fill his trips, must have debts I reckon, I’m just saying. AW
We are looking for three (3) surfers to make a surf trip to Indian Ocean Indonesia in August - new location, not likely to be anyone surfing, prime season with steady SE monsoon dry season wind and consistent SW swell.
I have added this surfEXPLORE project to my listings on the Waverii platform, access via the link for details - thanks!
https://waverii.com/listing/indonesia-surf-trip/