Surfing in Pohnpei, Micronesia {Gadling}

Sep 26th 2008 7:57PM Unreal, is all I have to say. I actually lived on Pohnpei for a year and surfed several times a month. We probably surfed Palikir pass 30 times that year and I never saw it like this. The waves did get that big but never that clean. A typical day there was more like 3-5 ft. Though, if you were good you could be barrelled like those guys on a regular basis. I am sad that the island is getting so popular for surfing now. I was there in 2002. Before Surfing magazine turned it into a hot spot. And that dumb surf camp at Misko Beach. I know that they were fighting it hard to keep them from starting that camp when I was there. I can only count one time the whole year where there was more than just me and my friends surfing at Palikir. I hear that when the surf is going now that it is just packed. Way to go to the idiots that decided it would be a good time to share the South Pacific's best kept secret with the surfing world. The only good thing I guess is that it is wicked expensive to get there so the only people you will see out there are pros and mega rich people. Oh well, Palikir was nice while it lasted all of those years.