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Spot Check – Zambales
Fancy a reef break? Wanna bust an air on fast beach break? Zambales has a bit of everything. In particular Magic left offers a very rippable long left hand point that can get epic on a typhoon swell.
Its close proximity to Manila makes it a popular weekend get-away for city surfers, it’s usually not crowded during the week except for a few friendly locals.
Flat? Hiking, fishing, island hopping and nature tripping are good alternatives, boat trips to close by islands can also be arranged through local surf guides.
Zambales works on a South, North and Typhoon Swell, giving different setups for each swell type.
Breaks:
Magic Left (left point break) for beginner to intermediate surfers.
Mags (beach break) for intermediate to advance.
Liw liwa, San Narciso and River Mouth for beginner to advance.
How to get there:
Drive 3 hours Via SCTEX highway to Subic then to Zambales Province.
Bus 5-6 hours bus ride (Victory Liner)
There are quite a few places to stay in the area. Circle Hostel offers backpacker style accommodation. Punta De Uian near Mags is another option, decent place and good for families. Pit Bowl offers modest accommodation and they have a skate bowl for when the surf goes flat!
So during our production and sampling and DIY’ing we tend to accumulate quite a lot of thing. So not to let them go to waste we’ve opened a etsy.com arm! head over and check it out for some rare and unique bits and pieces 🙂
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We’ll be back in the #808 next month yay! Come down and say hey at the Honolulu Night + Market (@HNLNightMarket) at the Pinch of Salt Warehouse (Auahi Business Center) in Kakaako 683 Auahi St.
Didnt know what to expect, seems like Typhoon Soulik was a bit too far and swell was highly unlikely.
It was a good altogether, lots of familiar faces, good vibes and stoked faces.
But did not expect a huge crowd, i bet most of them pulled the “call-in sick” card.
“Every wave is considered a blessing”
Stoked to see some nice waves come through Zambales.
Liwa surfer DK stoked after a longboard session.
Starting out as an unseasonable low pressure system, we were quite unsure what to expect until typhoon signal 1 (T1) was hoisted, and it was on, we just had to decide where to go! We ended up going over to Pui O after a disappointing half hour at Cheung Sha. The Pui O bay seemed to be crowded with SUP’s and surfers. I had forgotten how popular surfing was becoming in Hong Kong. Lucky it was boardshorts weather at least. Ended up getting some fun rides in the bay and then headed over to the Pui O point to try our luck on the reef!
Not bad for a Surfboard cake! Complete Deelite”s Jacinta Yu shows us how she came up with the whole idea…
Took some frabric for our bag lining and tried to turn it into a pocket suqare, what do you reckon??
are any of these yours?!
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