Featuring a state of the art kitesurfing school in collaboration with legendary surfer Robbie Naish, Caravan Dakhla marks the second of four Habitas properties set to open in Morocco.
The Original Windsurfer kit was developed in the late 1960s. But who won the first world title? The debate sparked a controversy that has run for 50 years.
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[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.]
How an era-straddling celebration of cross-over boardsport culture – and a Daily Telegraph kiss n’ tell of it – marked the beginning of the end surfing’s vaunted age of debauchery.
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
Hunter S knew it’s easier to mark the demise of some eras than others. In this case, the hippies of San Fran. Defining the end of an era, perhaps with a lyrical flourish and degree of abstract symbolism is usually easier, and always more satisfying than the beginning.