I'm up in Chiang Mai visiting family. I'm thinking about heading down to Phuket next week for a couple of days of fun in the warm water before I head home to the wetsuit. How are the waves lately? Can anyone point me to links for any local surf reports? I don't want to make the trip if all there is is knee high surf.

Also I am looking for a good place for board rental, and advice as to what region to stay in to optimize break potential. Should I stay in Phuket Town, rent a vehicle and drive to wherever it looks good for the day, or is there a place where I can stay and walk to a couple of different breaks.

Any advice is welcome, breaks, hotels, board shops, etc. To give a bit of context, I'm a mid level surfer, extremely comfortable in the water, etc. Double overhead in front of a jagged reef would not be my thing, but just about anything else would make my trip a happy one.

Peace,

Peter

I'm up in Chiang Mai visiting family. I'm thinking about heading down to Phuket next week for a couple of days of fun in the warm water before I head home to the wetsuit. How are the waves lately? Can anyone point me to links for any local surf reports? I don't want to make the trip if all there is is knee high surf.

Also I am looking for a good place for board rental, and advice as to what region to stay in to optimize break potential. Should I stay in Phuket Town, rent a vehicle and drive to wherever it looks good for the day, or is there a place where I can stay and walk to a couple of different breaks.

Any advice is welcome, breaks, hotels, board shops, etc. To give a bit of context, I'm a mid level surfer, extremely comfortable in the water, etc. Double overhead in front of a jagged reef would not be my thing, but just about anything else would make my trip a happy one.

Peace,

Peter

Seems a swell just hit today, set waves almost double overhead, but likely to fall in the next few days.

I'm not a surfer (can barely swim ) but found this link recently on Jamies weather blog (great blog). It's a live weather report from Nai Yang beach - gives the wind, gusts, cloudbase, humidity, all sorts of stuff and automatically updates itself every few minutes.

http://www.kitesurfthailand.com/wind/

I'm not a surfer (can barely swim ) but found this link recently on Jamies weather blog (great blog). It's a live weather report from Nai Yang beach - gives the wind, gusts, cloudbase, humidity, all sorts of stuff and automatically updates itself every few minutes.

http://www.kitesurfthailand.com/wind/

Stay in Kata. There are a bunch of board rentals there.

It's been a consistent 2-4 but I did not see the surf yesterday. Kata Noi, also a good break.

I'm up in Chiang Mai visiting family. I'm thinking about heading down to Phuket next week for a couple of days of fun in the warm water before I head home to the wetsuit. How are the waves lately? Can anyone point me to links for any local surf reports? I don't want to make the trip if all there is is knee high surf.

Also I am looking for a good place for board rental, and advice as to what region to stay in to optimize break potential. Should I stay in Phuket Town, rent a vehicle and drive to wherever it looks good for the day, or is there a place where I can stay and walk to a couple of different breaks.

Any advice is welcome, breaks, hotels, board shops, etc. To give a bit of context, I'm a mid level surfer, extremely comfortable in the water, etc. Double overhead in front of a jagged reef would not be my thing, but just about anything else would make my trip a happy one.

Peace,

Peter

Yesterday was bigger, 4-6 but the winds and the storms have made it quite messy.

I considered jumping in, but worry about water quality (sewage, construction chemical runoff etc.)

after rains, maybe some paranoia from my days in California......

Magicseaweed.com is exactly for this.. Phuket is covered..

WindGuru.com is also worth bookmarking..

Check this out:

The Windguru, Puket

Check this out:

The Windguru, Puket

http://www.saltwater-dreaming.com

try this one as well.

Kata is an easy one; not a bad break and has all the boards availble for hire; actually had a good session for the first time in 10 years last year there.

Looks like they haven't updated the forecast for a while; has a list of surfshops thuogh.

Search google,phuket boardriders,

i got back from phuket 16th/7 after 2 weeks in that time had 5 surfs 4 at kata noi, one at kalim which is reef,3 to 5ft.missed the good surf that they had for the surf comp 19/20th at kalim,if there is any surf it well be at kata noi.

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