“For the better part of my teenage years I drooled at photos of this wave. I still do today” —Nate Lawrence

Editor’s Note: Nate Lawrence was there to document this wave when it was new. Timmy Tuner and Brett Schwartz and Travis Potter would venture to the jungles of Indo, get dropped off and wait for waves like this to come alive. [See Second Thoughts below] It was during a time when Indo was still being discovered, and they did it the old fashioned way. And I think this wave became the discovery that ignited the Indo fever we all have now. As surfers, stumbling upon this will change your life, as it did Nate and a lot of us. And it’s why we spend so much time there.—Travis 

Watch the film “Second Thoughts” below if you’ve never seen it. It’s real and it’s real good. You’ll see the wave in the photo. Also, remember this is pre-GoPro: