Mentawai Islands

Cote’s Cube With Dave Rastovich
Rasta breaks down an epic session in the Mentwais, how to be a wave hog, and dishes on an upcoming voyage down the California coast in a sailing canoe. As well, check the frame grabs from a 10-second barrel that Rasta called one of the best waves of his life.
The 2011 Kandui Chronicles
A daily blog from the Mentawais that follows the Billabong Surf With A Pro trip to Kandui Resort with Shane Dorian, Dave Rastovich and a stoked group of ripping campers. The trip is a wrap, we scored huge. Check all the photos and daily updates here!
Mentawai Tsunami Death Toll Reaches 343
Mentawai Islands, Indonesia – Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 343 Thursday as more corpses were wrapped in body bags or buried by neighbors.
SurfAid Celebrates 10 Years Of Helping In The Mentawais
“The juxtaposition of my extreme pleasure and the obvious suffering of the beautiful children haunted me, and after running that crazy, sweaty, makeshift clinic in the afternoon, I crashed back onto my air-conditioned bunk a perturbed man."
Tour Of Kandui Resort With Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter leads a tour of Kandui Resort in the Mentawais while on duty as camp pro at the recent Billabong Surf With A Pro trip.
Kandui Chronicles: Dispatches From The Mentawais
Final day photos of the Billabong Surf With A Pro Kandui Resort trip and the story of how I ended up naked on a beach with a small man holding a machete...
Landscape Altered: Episode 2
The second installment of Kai Neville's four-part Landscape Altered webisode with Jay Davies, Mitch Coleborn, Josh Kerr, Clay Marzo, and Chippa Wilson punting their way through the Mentawais in a quest for $50,000.
SurfAid Int. Celebrates Ten Years Of Humanitarian Work
Humanitarian organisation SurfAid International is proud to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year after starting with a small malaria program in one village in the Mentawai Islands, off Indonesia’s Sumatran coast, in 2000.
Red Bull Mentawais Super Trip Videos
Five sick clips from the recently-returned Red Bull/TransWorld SURF Super Trip to the Mentawai islands off the coast of Indonesia…featuring Jordy, Mick, Julian, Bourez, Kolohe, Sofia and more Red Bull team radness.
TransWorld SURF/Red Bull Mentawais Super Trip
Packed to the gills with 13 of the world's best surfers, the Indies IV and it's talent laden Red Bull crew just got back from a Mentawai score fest of epic proportions!
Coming Next Issue: The Surf Trip Of The Decade
A Fly In The Champagne: After A Decade Of Bitter Rival Status, Kelly Slater And Andy Irons Come Together And Surf Off Their Differences. Includes special AI & Slater photo gallery...
8 Days 8 Slaves: Eight Years Later
What's the only thing better than a star-studded trip on a luxury boat through the best waves in the Mentawais? Doing it again, eight years later! Here we bring you a redux of one of our first-ever Indo super trips; this time with Taj Burrow, Timmy Curran, Damien Hobgood, Benji Weatherly, and more ripping up Indo. For the top shelf goodies and full story pick up the March 2009 issue of TransWorld SURF.
Go There: Kandui Resort, Indonesia
For every ten-foot, board-snapping Kandui barrel, there’s a mellow spot just around the corner that the Kandui guides will be happy to ferry you over to. It goes beyond the epic surf, though, and no expense has been spared in the development of the resort