Hainan Surf Blog

Chinese tourists are so funny, especially those that have obviously little experience with such modern technologies such as airplanes. By loading passengers onto the plane from both the front and rear of the plane, the airline managed to create confusion both on the ground as passengers tried to figure out which side of the plane they were supposed to get on, and again in the aisles as passengers inevitably had to cross each other, with baggage, to get to their seats. A particular group of tourists wearing matching red t-shirts and hats, and seemingly made up of housewives and their children, continued to delay the onflight takeoff procedures while taking pictures and moving from seat to seat to pose with their friends. The stewardesses were running after kids like it was a pre-school or something, and after they finally got everyone seated, they realized they had left someone off the plane. We waited 15 minutes while they searched the airport for some guy who said he got lost in the airport.

Anyway, we've arrived in Sanya, finally. Just luggage and our dog, Gouro, who was a bit rattled by the trip through the belly of an airplane and eventually spinning around on the luggage claim conveyors while hundreds of Chinese tourists gawked and pointed at him.

With any luck we'll get our furniture on the 16th as promised, and will work on the internet and phone lines this week.

Otherwise a nice swell in the water and looking forward to some good surf over the next few days.