kelly slater

It became, as it should, a gluttonous barrel-fest. Slater caught seven Backdoor chambers, one a ten-pointer, and two Pipe caverns.

Fiji is home to the most jovial folk on the planet, and some of it's most perfect waves, yet it is a volatile little country. In the last twenty years the island nation has undergone four seperate coups (that's one every five years for those that don't have a calculator handy).

The fella who headed the last coup - Commodore Frank Bainimarama – said it was the 'coup to end all coups'. A warning, no doubt, to his enemies who were couping up for the next coup.

The Quiksilver Pro completed the remaining eight heats of round three yesterday in three-to-four foot waves at Snapper Rocks.