As you might imagine, all that time aboard Quest 1 isn’t all roses – to put it in Dean’s words. Yeah, it’s easy to go on the defense when you hear these guys grumbling from time to time. They’re in paradise, right? Surfing perfect waves.  Getting barrels on a daily basis that most of us will only dream about. But remember all the downtime in-between? And the fact that everyday life is confined to 50 feet of boat? Surely, you can excuse a few flare-ups.

For Dillon, Dean and Bruno, this is the last chapter. They’ve discovered so many new waves (that will be revealed to you in the coming weeks on Tip 2 Tip) and covered so many kilometers that all the different trips have blurred together.

Good thing the final week of their trip gave them plenty of time to reflect.

Unseasonably bad weather. Unseasonably flat ocean. Texas hold ‘em lost its excitement. The beer wasn’t working anymore. Pirate parties had been done. This became the trip of books and journals. But perhaps it was a perfect ending. A time to reflect on the trials and glory of an epic boat trip along a winding archipelago that, believe it or not, still holds as many secrets as she’s let slip away.