Africa.
Africa is often described
as if it were a single country, rather than a conitinent full of different
cultures and secrets. The birthplace of the human race, Africa is vast,
complicated, sweeping and full of waves and contradictions - tropical
deserts with icy seas, vast mineral wealth and desperate poverty, and
incredible waves forever secret in the darkest corners of the dark continent.
SANTOSHA
"It’s more than just an island. It is many islands, and it
is this island Earth on which we live. It is a state of mind, a state of being
and a land of forgotten dreams. An island bound by the spirit of the sea and
living within the spirit of man".Click HERE to read
on.
CAMEROON
"Here we were in a jungle where we thought surfers would fear to tread and someone
else had just taken over our peak. Gabriel, who seemed even more surprised
to see us than we were to see him, turned out to be a confident and proficient
surfer, but more than that, Gabriel might well be the worlds luckiest surfer
as well as the most unusual".Click
HERE to read on.
EGYPT
"It is the hunting grounds of a demon, whom, so it is said, brings
to the earth the curses of draught, famine and, ultimately,
death. At its
centre it’s so arid that most bacteria cannot survive, but yet,
inside its belly, if you look very carefully, you will find a single,
solitary figure locked in chains, busily breaking rocks under the
hot
sun of the desert of deserts". Click
HERE to read on.
BENIN
"The African skies might be thick with sorcery but you certainly
won’t find magicians pulling rabbits out of hats on every street
corner. It’s something you have to look for..."Click
here to read on:
WEST AFRICA
"Originally my people came from the south, I have always lived
here though" I glanced around, at the land this man now called
home, it was a desperately poor place, the desert was encroaching, killing
off any future the town may have had...Click
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SAHARA
"They’d trusted me and now here we were in the middle of the
Sahara desert, stuck in no-mans land without our passports, surrounded
by landmines and with nothing but a packet of biscuits and a litre of
water to keep us going, oh and I was buried up to my neck in sand whilst
wearing two wetsuits...."
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THE SKELETON COAST:NAMIBIA
It’s a land of massive horizons where mirages dance in the distance
only to be replaced moments later by heavy fogs bringing darkness at
midday. It’s a land where‘dead’ plants live for two thousand
years and where scientists put the unexplainable down to fairies. It’s
a land where penguins and ducks feed in the desert and lions stalk seals
on the beach. It is the ‘Coast of Hell'...Click
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MOZAMBIQUE
"....I've always been attracted to decaying towns like this, but
rarely have I found much in the way of surf near them, Inhambane though,
was different..."..Click here to read on
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