BOUJY TIME
Boujmaa Guilloul – Tahiti has always been my hottest trip, I wish I could make it a ritual. I have been going there since my friend Baptiste Gossein moved to Tahiti from Maui and I can say it was love at first sight; from the first time I visited, I fell in love with the place. It is magic, it has everything that makes it very unique, there is no one place I have visited that could be like Tahiti; the people, the waves, the landscape, everything is so beautiful.
I have always loved the pictures that have been shot there, like the first one I saw of Baptiste when he went there with Levi for the first time, I guess it was in 2005 or even earlier, a nice jump with a beautiful Jurassic park kinda looking background. The colours were unbelievable and I just wished I was there.
After a few years I managed to accumulate enough frequent flyer miles to get my first airline ticket to Tahiti and my heart was conquered by the magical power of that place, I couldn’t resist it anymore and I felt like I had to go every year.
I had been 3 times already before I convinced Mystic to have the photo shoot there as I had a contact through Baptiste at Air Tahiti Nui that helped us out with tickets. They are the best airline for gear to travel to Tahiti, they go from Paris through LAX and they usually have better prices than the rest of the airlines. Long story short, the conditions were amazing, actually a little too hard core for any level as the waves usually are not very forgiving and the reef very sharp, like very very sharp and if you get cut there, it takes forever to heal, and you need to kill the bacteria on your wounds with the lemon juice squeezed on your cuts straight out of the water and on the boat. The earlier the better, or for sure you will get bad infections. I personally missed sick windsurfing sessions and surfing sessions because I was hurt and lost a piece of my heel one time which took more than a month to heal. This time I cut my foot on the reef and my back, which was very painful and became infected, keeping me away from an insane session where I was sitting on the boat watching Robby getting the waves of his life.
