The Rip Curl team live the life, consistently on the hunt for unchartered territories and waves, well beyond just the usual surf trip up the coast with friends, they venture far and wide to find the gold and in their latest episode of The Search – Pale Aliens (Part 2), they find just that.
‘After finding a virgin left wedge on their first foray amid the “Turquoise Islands”, Dillon Perillo, Luke Hynd and Pat Curren re-grouped and headed to another island they knew absolutely nothing about. The vacuum of doubt was filled with promise by the two local guides Kishore and Ram, local entrepreneurs with an eye for the exotic and guru like knowledge of what it took to weave the maze of local beaurocrats just to visit.’
Their search led them to an untouched wedge that broke off the side of an old shipwreck – very similar to the Mauritania addition of Weird Waves Of The World in West Africa.
‘It almost felt like we were protected, and perhaps we had been the beneficiaries of Ram and Kishore’s good karma. Our guides were legends and made things happen for us. Everything that could have gone wrong on a far out trip like this, hadn’t. No one got hurt, no one got sick, no one even got hassled; maybe fortune really does favour the bold. We found untouched waves, lineups that have always been empty and will almost certainly resume their emptiness for years to come. Good one Teddy Grambeau – nice roll of the dice…’
Full feature by Dave Sparkes. Photography by Dave Sparkes and Ted Gram beau. Video by Scott McClimont and Tom Jennings. See more of The Rip Curl Search here
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