It’s been a while since my last blog but I’ve been to a few places lately that don’t have or have very slow internet access and it was good to just leave the World Wide Web behind and enjoy myself without having to worry about e-mail, swell forecasts and facebook.

Facebook, wow.... what would we do without it hey? How quickly something can just manifest itself in your life and suddenly take up as much time as surfing or watching TV.

Is it a bad thing? I don’t believe so, for me the freer and more liberal information is the better and in the words of the great Jello Biafra “I won’t defend or rock the boat, just take some drugs and rock and roll”. Which I think quite literally means to bury you head in the sand and hope the world as you know it doesn’t end. Facebook helps people share knowledge and I think that is good in every way.

So where was I? Well my last blog I was sitting comfortably at home after a long stint away and happy to just hang out while surfing and kiteboarding around my home town but as fate would have it a swell popped up for J-bay. So Kate and I flew down for a fun two days with my family and friends down there.

J-bay is crowded as hell these days, by people like me who fly and drive in from as far as Cape Town and Durban or as close as Seal Point or PE to catch the best swells of the year and I just don’t know how the locals put up with it? But if I have any advice, stay down the end section, don’t paddle up the point and be happy to get one or two good waves in a day. If you live by the rules and know what you are doing out there you can still have a great time, if not, don’t even bother going as it will most defiantly end badly.

So from one extreme to another we where then off to Mozambique with our friends from J-bay, Asho and Elka for two weeks to catch some of the cyclone swell that has been pouring into the North East of South Africa the past few months. Now Mozambique is the complete opposite to J-bay with more empty points and barrels then you can believe possible and it’s one of my favourite places in the world to go hang out and surf. From Ponta D’Oro in the south to Imhambane in the North it’s just littered with lonely Kirra - esque barrels, great seafood and warm accommodating people.

So if you like to surf by yourself, enjoy right hand sand bottom points and African sun go see Mitch and Angie at Dolphin Encounters and have a blast, but look out for the sharks!!

Now my ticket to the USA and the XXL Awards is booked and ready but there are a few South swells for Tahiti showing on the maps and I’ve never surfed Chopes before so this might just be the opportunity I was looking for to cut my teeth in some mad left barrels.

What do you think, should I bring the my ticket and just go for it...Fuck it, let’s go!!

See ya
Twig

Grant "Twiggy" Baker is a former Mavericks Surf Contest champion and special contributor to TheExtremeScene.com.