Surfer's Path

June/July 2001

Features:

• Seven Days a Week Sailing into the Caribbean islands after an Atlantic crossing,there’s more to make you smile than just the toilet paper salesman.Islands,waves,good people and waves. STORY BY TOR JOHNSON
• Virgin Delights One of the Caribbean’s best kept secrets,exposed.Times have changed since surf mag editors showed shots of the Garden with no name.But Tortola’s still sweet. STORIES BY DREW KAMPION AND ALEX DICK-READ
• Elemental Wilderness Where did you spend the best years of your life? In caravan on the Pacific Northwest,wondering whether a surf is worth a shark attack? Mike Kew did. STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE KEW
• Zen Lines – The Enlightened Path of Albe Falzon An interview with one of surfing’s most creative film-makers,who changed our view of the surf world in numerous,various ways.Morning of the Earth plus... INTERVIEW BY ALEX LEONARD
• J-Bay Underground Watch out for the buffalo,it can be Africa’s most dangerous animal.It is also the symbol of the local line-up enforcers at Afric’s most popular wave. STORY BY CRAIG JARVIS PHOTOS BY PAUL KENNEDY
• Roots Manoeuvers and False Bay Hope Township surfing hasn’t been seen alot over the years,but the guys from Cape Town’s less affluent corners don’t care.They’ve got waves,and a rich life ahead. STORY BY ANDY DAVIS
• Where the Desert Meets the Sea Lone wandering on the edge of the desert means a few things - solo sessions; seals and sharks;wild dogs and hyenas;diamonds and too many empty waves. STORY BY CHUCK GRAHAM
• The Edge of The World You’ve never seen this monster before.That’s because,apart from one guy who’s been going there for a while,no one’s really surfed it.Far out,in many ways. STORY BY KIERON PERROW PHOTOS BY SEAN DAVEY