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Land of 1000 Lefts(Comments Off)

March 6, 2010

In case you missed Brendon Bosworth’s article about a 6,800-mile trek from South Africa to Angola  in the February 2010 issue of Surfer, you can get a feel for that epic surf mission from this video, posted on the venerable South African surf magazine ZigZag. Angola – Empty lefts! from Zag Tv on Vimeo. What [...]

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Mauritius

It’s smack in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Grand Baie and Tamarin are two budget places to stay and surf on this otherwise pricey isle. The SW quarter of the island has a number of breaks as the barrier reef is breached by many passes there. Water Temp is 18C. Great spot for a [...]

Up The Skeleton Coast: Surfing in Namibia, Part Three

We took a couple of diversions where we could find them to the beach, looking for a point as good as Cape Cross, but we found nothing but wind-rattled waves. A few places showed potential, but not that day. We did find an old bottle, with “1940″ stamped on the bottom. I thought it would [...]

Up the Skeleton Coast: Surfing in Namibia, Part Two

Back in the car and northward ever onwards, looking for the perfect combination of good waves and no one fishing. It seems weird to be somewhere where there is absolutely no chance of running across crowded surf, but still having to avoid crowds of fishermen instead. A few miles north of where we met the [...]


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