Fresh off the coat tails from a previous Lombok trip, a swinging SouthWest swell convinced us to venture a little further away from home…To the island of Sumatra. Since we were heading quite a distance from Bali’s shores, it was the perfect opportunity to d...
Leia maisLiving surf legend Bob McTavish has been hanging around the Deus Temple in Canggu Bali getting his hands dirty. We originally thought ourselves bloody lucky just to entice him to Bali for a spot of early morning surfing and afternoon shaping then got, what ...
Leia maisA road trip can be a mini extension of matedom. It’s own little eco system if you will. When you get a group of like-minded guys they can ingrate themselves with each other so much that even after a few short days, move with a single purpose. Same direction...
Leia maisIndonesians are, on the whole, an incredibly accommodating and accepting race of peoples. It took us only hours, far less than days, before we felt at home. We had our shack, our base of operations and we’d sit around out the front as life paraded by, delvi...
Leia maisWe may not all be here to make history but we can live our lives so that we create our own. Adventure is the key. Alone or with likeminded. We’ve, as a rag tag group of vagabonds, come to realise the ease in which trips away make us feel that history is in ...
Leia maisEverybody has their favorite period in time. A bunch of quiff wearing diner lovers have converted a Newcastle warehouse the size of two hangers into one of the most well themed museums around. Their decade of choice was the 50s and there is no chance of fo...
Leia maisWe are more than a bit spoilt at the Deus Temple in Canggu for a whole heap of reasons. One though is really near and dear. We have been extremely fortunate to have some great shapers pass through the carved teak java doors that lead to that inner sanctum, ...
Leia maisMany different styles of art forms fall upon the grounds of “The Temple”. Random shapers drop in and shuffle about the bay doing the dusty cross-step that they do oh so well. Musicians flock to the backyard stage like zombies looking for fresh flesh on a mo...
Leia maisDeus Temple Sunday sessions are always fun. Made much more so, when combined with a Deus Gallery opening. Last Sunday was such a double barreled billing. Not Applicable or N/A, for it’s written in the short form, was Natham & Ariele’s opening night. A ...
Leia maisDeus Temple Sunday sessions are always fun. Made much more so, when combined with a Deus Gallery opening. Last Sunday was such a double barreled billing. Not Applicable or N/A, for it’s written in the short form, was Natham & Ariele’s opening night. A ...
Leia maisThere’s this kid fooling around in the shaping bay madly mowing foam. Peeking in it’s clear that he’s shaping a board, though it’s not like anything we’ve seen before, And take it from us, we’ve seen some interesting craft pass through these doors. At first...
Leia maisNo swell… so what better time to take a couple of the bikes out for a ride. Our destination? Bali’s north coast, which was all we needed to know before beginning an epic journey from the bottom to top, and back again, through the island of a thousand temple...
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