One Palm Point Surf Guide

One Palm Point Surf Guide

There was a time in the late '90s and early '00s when feral surfers who'd formerly staked out positions at places like G-land, began to slip away to a rumored left-hand point somewhere off in Western Java. The way the stories went, this wave was much heavier, shallower and more treacherous than G-Land. At a time when Teahupo'o was surfed by a relative few, this discovery was pretty astonishing. Video footage that returned from those early exploits revealed surfers wearing fullsuits in the tropics simply to protect themselves from the razor-sharp coral heads and vicious dry spots and the inevitable close-out section. The video also revealed a wave that most civilian surfers wouldn't want anything to do with.

Because of other discoveries, and the fact that One Palm Point exists in a National Park, the wave went under exposed in the surf media during the early part of the century. Debates over planned surf camps or other developments then put the wave into Internet chat rooms. Today though, the best option to surf this wave remains the boat charter. Excursions here are often planned around full moons.