Surfing Sigatoka

The dawn patrol in search of some excellent waves at Sigatoka sand dunes. Scored some really fun waves over the four days that I was there. I went with the other Aussie Tim on a little break in search of surf and we got blessed with beautiful weather and waves. Surf more in the four days than the whole time in Fiji up until this point. The sand dunes were one of the most surreal places that I have been to. It is the only beach break in Fiji. However it is also one of the most shark infested waters in Fiji. The surf is at the river mouth and the water is really murky so much so that you can’t see your board when sitting on it in the water. During three separate surfs we saw a Shark. On one occasion during the surf what we think was about a two-meter shark jumped straight up out of the water only meters from me. That ended the surf for the day; pretty scary. Tim saw one swimming in the wave and yes we are one hundred percent sure that they were sharks. After talking with the locals they told us about a local surfer only a couple of months ago getting his arm torn apart by a shark and they have had many boards with shark bites. We were told that they are bull sharks or tiger sharks; freaky. Still the surf was excellent and will most likely continue to surf; I mean they have always been there just now I really know since I’ve seen them nice and close. However the trip was a lot of fun though I need to take warm clothes for the nighttime. We slept in a tent and I thought that just shorts, a t-shirt and jumper would be fine how wrong was I; I think it was the worst few nights’ sleep I have or lack of sleep that I have had. It got so cold at night. The surf and sand boarding more that adequately made up for the lack of sleep which it an awesome trip.