Longboarding in the sun with dolphins
Two straight days of sunshine in Lima after five straight months of fog.
Two straight days of sunshine in Lima after five straight months of fog.
I was surfing Lobitos, in northern Peru, this past Sunday when Sofia Mulanovich paddled into the line-up. (Photo ASP Cestari © Covered Images.)
This morning, after suffering through two weeks of heavy winds that turned otherwise perfect 9 foot waves into choppy schwag, the air was still, the ocean was perfectly glassy and the 5.5 feet waves were peeling just right. It was bliss.
There are dogs that surf and dogs that like to watch the surf. There are dogs that only bark when their best friends go surfing. There are dogs that swim out to sea, only to turn back when the waves come crashing in.
There was a big turnout last Saturday at a break in Chilca for a bodyboard competition billed as part of one global circuit or another.
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Peru’s coastline, from the border with Chile in the south to the frontier with Ecuador in the north, is sandy desert, dry as a bone. So dry that there’s no running water and most people store water in buckets or drink Inca Kola, the shiny yellow soda, to quench their thirst.
Inka Waves
Norcal. Brazil. Peru. Skateboards. Dogs. Food. Writing. The Kung Fu Monkeys. Capoeira. People Under the Stairs, upstarts and underdogs.
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Mission: possible
Portugal explodes onto the global big wave circuit.
Thirty thousand
Richard James shoots a surf trip of 30,000 kilometres along the west cost of Africa.
All in Hand
When it comes to surfcraft there’s a newcomer making waves
A Few Smooth Lines
Chris Preston interviews Sydney's Matt Chojnacki
The train to Taghazout
Mat Arney attempts to hop aboard the slow train to Morocco, boardbag in tow.
Single Fin Serendipity
The unusual return of Bobby Owens' magic board.
Nature on display
Chris Burkard’s photographs are about the scenery being the star of the show.
Peterson Threebeard
All aboard the good ship Peterson Threebeard
Surfilmfestibal 2011
The surfilmfestibal festival attempts to connect the global surfing community
Walls of Perception
Ben Thouard joins Oxbow in search of adventure and virgin waves.
Upper Water Love
Rui Ribeiro talks with Renaud Cardinal about the past, present and future of UWL.
African Rhythm
Mark Sankey travels to Senegal where the deserts of North Africa meet the jungles of the tropics.