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Into The Danger Zone

Relates to Surf and Travel

Ha! I find it amusing that our spring excursion to surf the Mearim Pororoca south of the Amazon basin has found its way into the latest issue of Carve surfing magazine in the cover article - Into The Danger Zone. It sits hemmed between Puerto Escondido and Teahoopu, two of the meatiest and certainly gnarliest waves on the planet. I suppose despite the polarity of wave size and power, the location is worthy of its place. The dangers do not come from the wave energy, the reef or the hold down, but instead from the wide array of predators that haunt the waters, and of course that nasty little critter - the candiru.

For me the Pororoca adventure is now a distant memory. I have been very much back at home in recent months what with the 50 year celebrations of Churchill's first Severn bore surf held in September and an excellent, and very quiet, set of tides last week on which I clocked a 6km bore surf in the dark for the second time. Of course anticipation is also rife for the forthcoming release of Longwave before Christmas, and beyond that some excellent looking prospects for next spring with the largest tides since 1998 forecast. Also have some plans in the pipeline to make Alaska the fourth tidal bore location we have visited next year…

Posted on Sunday, Oct 23, 2005 at 18:33:57.