Cloudbreak

comment by Anonymous, 2007-12-04 00:48:06

Namotu
You will have access to Wilkes, Swimming pools and Namotu lefts. These can be good. If you want to surf Cloudbreak and Restaurants then book with Tavarua. Its not that hard to get on ... the private people who control their group for each week can easily have a last minute spot that needs filling. I went once with two weeks notice because of someone's broken ankle and it was EPIC! Be flexible with your time and you can score the real deal. If you are going to Namotu then just say "hi" to all the sailboarders for me but .... at least all Namotu's bures have AC .... only the "family bures" at Tavs do.

comment by rob929, 2007-11-18 01:06:40

namotu
im gonna be staying on namotu in february will i be able to surf cloudbreak and restaurants or what

comment by Dr. Hemmington, 2007-06-25 21:49:05

On Cloudbreak....
From reading ALL the postings on Cloudbreak, I can only conclude that the controvery here is that some people do not like the idea of having a surf spot so hard to access publicly. This is a prevalent theme - ocean access - even in surfing's legal realm, where groups like Surfrider Foundation battle incessantly to help surfers gain public access to beaches. It is worth questioning why this same legal access battle does not apply to Tavarua? Perhaps Fiji, being a foreign country with different concepts of ocean rights and seashore ownership, abides by a different set of 'traditional' laws. Yet I was under the understanding that, military bases aside, all ocean waters are international (i.e. - public access) waters to the high tide mark, or in some cases, the low tide mark and seaward. Fiji may be acting cavalier in thinking they are somehow above International Maritime Law, as with the Tavarua Resort, unless they are a military base, which, from reading all these postings, one might believe!