domingo, 21 de janeiro de 2018

Octogenário no outside - Waves

 
Arquivo Brian Cole

Kevin Merifield (segundo da dir. para a esq.) foi um dos desbravadores do surfe no Oeste australiano.

Um dos pioneiros de Margaret River e desbravador do Oeste australiano, o lendário Kevin Merifield acaba de completar 80 anos e continua no rip nas exigentes ondas da região.

Nascido em Perth, Merifield descobriu o tesouro de Margaret River entre o fim da década de 1950 e início dos anos 1960. Depois disso, estabeleceu-se na região e virou um dos locais mais respeitados da West Oz.

Para celebrar seu aniversário, ele decidiu não mudar a rotina: pegou seu longboard velho de guerra e partiu para uma sessão em Surfer’s Point, tradicional pico de Margaret.

Quem estava no outside prestou uma reverência silenciosa e, apesar da longa remada, Merifield saiu sorridente da água. “É um pouco assustador”, diz o surfista em relação aos 80 anos recém-completados.



“Mas, pensando bem, é apenas um número. Não me sinto diferente agora do que há 20 anos. Na verdade, não penso muito em idade, eu simplesmente vivo a cada dia”, conclui o legend.

Amigo da família e companheiro de aposentadoria, o ex-Top da elite mundial Taj Burrow disse ao canal de TV ABC que chegar aos 80 anos surfando deveria se o objetivo de todos surfistas.

“Kev é uma lenda e ele está certo: tudo se resume a remar para o outside, se molhar e conversar com os amigos. Surfar é o estilo de vida mais feliz e saudável e, aos 80 anos, ele pode se orgulhar disso”, acrescenta Taj.

Source: Octogenário no outside - Waves
Octogenário no outside - Waves

sábado, 20 de janeiro de 2018

Segunda-feira

 

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Segunda-feira

On Rail: The Train to Taghazoute

Writer and photographer Mat Arney undertakes a surf trip that puts the journey on par with the destination, taking the train to Taghazoute, Morocco, from the UK

On Rail: The Train to Taghazoute


Words by Mat Arney & images by Mat Arney, Mark at Surf Berbere




The only word that I could pick out from the fast slur of heavily Basque-accented Spanish was “NO”. The train manager backed this up with a wag of his finger before pointing at our boardbags lying on the platform. Uh-oh. I guess there had to be a stick in the spokes sooner or later.A few years ago a friend of mine stated that it was worth getting a budget flight from the UK to Morocco just to eat an orange. After that he reckoned you could turn around and go home happy. The problem is that ever since I found out that you could get the train all the way there, the budget flight thing hasn’t really been an option, and that’s ok with me. Surfers are often presumed to be all about “one-ness with nature” but let’s face it, most of us get on a plane to get good waves the first chance we get without much more than a second thought for the environment when our insatiable appetite for surf kicks in.  Here was a chance to put the journey on par with the destination; the how and why over the what for.

I was interested to observe the gradual transition of landscapes, climates, cultures and languages as we headed south, the sort of changes that are either skipped over entirely or immediately apparent when you simply step off a plane at your destination.


So that’s how my friend Kyle and I found ourselves stood on the platform of Irún train station just over the French/Spanish border at 7am on a grey drizzly Monday morning, watching our train pull away without us.We’d set off a few days before when a colleague dropped me at Truro train station after work in his veg oil fuelled truck (we’d then meet up with him and his wife twenty four hours later in Biarritz), in what I thought was a suitably eco-friendly start to the trip. Surely that’s good karma, right?

Kyle had got a train from Wales, and we met at London’s Paddington Station before dragging our boards down the escalators to traverse London on the tube surrounded by Friday night after-work drinkers and sleep on a friend’s couch. At 6.30am the next morning we were on the Eurostar watching the Kent countryside fly past in the low light of dawn. Twenty minutes of blackness followed as we went under the sea before emerging in France, and then onwards to Paris…the change immediately apparent despite the identical countryside, with different church steeples and shuttered windows the give away as we passed little French villages and then pulled through the northern suburbs of Paris into the classic Gothic concourse of the Gare du Nord.


We traversed another city’s underground transport system, entertained by the gypsy folk musicians who hop-on and hop-off the metro trains busking with covert accordions, and waited for our next train. It turned out that the waiter at the Parisian café where we stop for coffee surfed too, and he proudly showed us photos on his phone when he saw our boards; we talked of surf trips and sipped coffee before stuffing baguettes into our pockets (surprised that they fit?) ready for the next leg of our journey. Our boardbags nestled in the train’s overhead luggage racks alongside our fellow passenger’s suitcases and a bemused cat in a travel basket. The rest of France whizzed by under dazzling sunshine, all green fields with occasional colourful blocks of yellow rapeseed and the industrial backs of towns. You never really see the best of a town arriving or passing through by rail do you; just the local graffiti talent and stacks of pallets at the backs of factories and warehouses. But then, I’d say that’s probably the same for the industrial areas around airports too. And they say that first impressions count…

Fields gave way to vineyards, followed by row upon row of plantation pine forest before the rolling hills and mist of the Basque Country. Sunday was passed café hopping the streets of Biarritz before getting gathered up in the fever of the local rugby derby, the small surf blown out by squally winds and continuing on hampered by the Sunday train services of both France and Spain. We met up with my colleague Ben who’d dropped me off the day before at the train station. He and his wife had caught an overnight ferry and driven all day to arrive at the same time as us, offering a nice comparison to the train. I’d really had my hopes set on a “surf for the sake of it” at the midpoint of our journey, but common sense prevailed when I realised that my luggage would gain a few kilos in Atlantic seawater if I pulled my wetsuit on and went for a paddle. The first train in the pre-dawn gloom took us across the border to Spain, and that’s where the proverbial wheels came off the wagon.

The trains in Spain really are a pain.At least, they are if you’re hauling surfboards with you.

We’d checked before travelling that our boardbags were within the baggage allowances and even adjusted our route and itinerary to accommodate, but it turns out that it’s down to the train managers, and they don’t come equipped with tape measures or sympathetic lenience. We were sent back over the border to France to sort out our tickets, where we then got a local metro-rail to San Sebastien to try and find another train to Madrid. Again: “no”. We were already meant to be in the Spanish capital, catching our train to the coast, but instead we were sitting on a park bench in the opposite corner of the country. Finally we talked our way aboard and hopped local trains to Madrid, pulling in at midnight on an ironically spacious train where our surfboards looked lost in the enormous luggage compartment. Having missed all of our subsequent trains we sat up all night in a taxi drivers bar alternating beers with coffee and playing backgammon to pass the second half of the night, before trying our luck when the station opened first thing in the morning.

“No”.

You’re kidding me? Again?

We were bounced between counters until barefaced lying bought us two tickets and then, with my heart drumming like I’d just trodden on the bouncer’s foot, we snuck our boards onto our train and quickly faked sleep. The train pulled away from the station, aimed for the coast. Phew. The final European part of our journey headed south, weaving through the gorges of Andalucia to deposit us at the end of the line in Algeciras, across the bay from the Rock of Gibraltar, and we caught the ferry to Africa.


It was still dark when the muezzin started calling the faithful to prayer from the minaret of the mosque less than twenty meters from our hotel room in Tangiers, right on time to get up and bungy-cord our boards onto the roof of an old Mercedes taxi to take us to the station. We were pleased to see that the train still shares its name with the song that it inspired, The Marrakech Express.

The sun streamed through the sealed windows cooking the inside of the carriage and casting shadows of Arabic script across the tables and seats. The train hit the coast on its way south for a while and I made notes on my map as we passed knee high a-frames brushed by the offshores coming down from the hills. We changed train in Casablanca and that afternoon we rolled into the Red City, me hanging out the door of the last carriage trying to take photos of the engine pulling us along a quarter mile ahead whilst some young Moroccan guys sung for my camera, not realising that it was an old analogue camera and not digital. Six days; eleven trains (three of which were solely underground and one partly under-ocean; four countries and four capital cities; two of us and our two boardbags.

We managed to check the surf for the first time in a week from an internet café in Marrakech, and it wasn’t looking that crash-hot so we ran to the hills and went hiking in the High Atlas Mountains rather than sit it out by the coast. It was a little detour indicative of the whole tint cast upon this trip by the nature of our journey. It had become more than just a surf trip; not another smash and grab, stun’n’run chase for waves but an entirely slower affair where every step mattered. The waves were still the focus but the picture was a bit bigger now.

Surf-wise, Morocco’s been done to death. We already knew the waves before we got to them, the result of years of mind surfing big green walls of water embedded in our mind’s eye by magazines and movies, so there’s no need to go into detail. This “surf” article can end when the surfing began, but needless to say we’d earned those first few waves, they washed the travel off nicely and made it all worthwhile.

Editor’s Note:  This is a revised version of a story first published by Drift Surfing in June 2011. 

35mm film, panoramic and x-processed analogue images by Mat Arney.

Final surf image of the author captured by and copyright of Mark at Surf Berbere.


Source: On Rail: The Train to Taghazoute
On Rail: The Train to Taghazoute

sexta-feira, 19 de janeiro de 2018

21 BBQ Only Girls Nicarágua - Novembro 2017

 

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21 BBQ Only Girls Nicarágua - Novembro 2017

THE ULTIMATE NOVELTY WAVE

 

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THE ULTIMATE NOVELTY WAVE

quinta-feira, 18 de janeiro de 2018

Michelangelo Bernardoni - 2017 Sessions

 

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Michelangelo Bernardoni - 2017 Sessions

Você também pode [trailer oficial] - Curta metragem

 

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Você também pode [trailer oficial] - Curta metragem

quarta-feira, 17 de janeiro de 2018

Dear Vinta

 

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Dear Vinta

The Pier, Simone Giannini

 







Un tranquillo sabato pomeriggio al Pontile di Forte dei Marmi, una piccola scaduta e pochi amici con le tavole lunghe con cui condividere le ultime onde. Sabato scorso Simone Giannini se l’è goduta fino all’ultima onda.


Un tranquillo sabato pomeriggio al Pontile di Forte dei Marmi, una piccola scaduta e pochi amici con le tavole lunghe con cui condividere le ultime onde.

Source: The Pier, Simone Giannini
The Pier, Simone Giannini

terça-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2018

My Camera Helped Me Fall In Love With Puerto Rico and the Outer Banks

Being from the North East, I grew up in a fast-paced environment. Moving to North Carolina as a young adult was a welcome change.

It’s the simple life that seems to suit my personality and that’s exactly what you get on the Outer Banks.

Meanwhile, the northwest corner of Puerto Rico has that same country-meets-beach vibe I fell in love with in North Carolina. The waves can be great and spending my summers there educated me on the technical side of my art as a photographer, like editing and computer skills.

I love all aspects of surfing and sharing it through photos. The travel, the search, the weather, the culture, and the lifestyle. I have, slowly, combined my love of surfing with my love for photography. Being a woman who surfs, I’ve found myself focusing my photography on other female surfers lately. But overall, I genuinely love getting in the water and documenting the places I’ve been, the waves I’ve surfed, and the people with whom I’ve shared them along the way.



 

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My Camera Helped Me Fall In Love With Puerto Rico and the Outer Banks

Da garagem ao Castelo - Waves

 


No mês de dezembro, a marca de pranchas Oric inaugurou sua nova fábrica, localizada em um casarão na zona sul de Porto Alegre (RS) e apelidada de Castelo da Oric. Criada pelo empresário Guilherme Paz e pelo shaper Ciro Buarque em 2016, a marca gaúcha rapidamente ganhou mercado e, apesar do pouco tempo na estrada, já estabeleceu-se como uma das empresas do segmento que mais investem no esporte no Brasil.

Além de patrocinar surfistas da velha guarda como Paulo Zulu, atletas da nova geração como Gustavo Borges e Pâmella Mel, de incentivar o esporte na ilha de Fernando de Noronha (PE) e de apoiar eventos como o Black Belt Challenge e o Circuito ASPOA (Associação de Surf de Porto Alegre), a Oric tem planos ambiciosos para esta temporada. E todos passam pelo Castelo, um oásis cercado pela natureza e pelo Rio Guaíba, cartão-postal da capital gaúcha.

Quem comanda o casarão é Guilherme Paz, advogado de formação, mas que decidiu investir no ramo da fabricação de pranchas ao encomendar um longboard para seu filho pequeno. A amizade com o shaper Ciro Buarque e os interesses em comum fizeram nascer a Oric (Ciro ao contrário). De lá para cá, a empresa passou de uma apertada garagem para um enorme casarão, aumentando de 15 para 70 o número de pranchas produzidas por mês. Em 2018, a previsão é ampliar esse número para ao menos 100.

Na entrevista abaixo, concedida pouco depois da inauguração do Castelo, Paz conversou com a reportagem do Waves e falou um pouco sobre a origem da Oric e os planos para esta temporada.

Como surgiu a ideia de investir no mercado de fabricação de pranchas?

Foi em novembro de 2015, quando meu filho pediu para encomendar uma prancha de surfe. Então pedi uma para o Ciro, lembrei que ele estava no Brasil depois de ter passado um longo período na Austrália. Ele trabalhou em algumas fábricas e estava começando sozinho, tinha feito umas quatro pranchas para a “Ciro Buarque Surfboards” nos fundos da casa dele. Quando recebi a prancha, percebi a qualidade e resolvi apostar e empreender. Trabalhava como advogado e sabia que minha família ia ficar contra, mas ele pilhou e seguimos adiante.

Como foi o início?

Precisávamos de alguém para dar visibilidade, aí pensamos no Paulo Zulu. Sempre tive uma imagem do Zulu como surfista, nunca consegui enxergar ele como modelo ou ator. Entrei em contato com a assessora dele, eles foram muito solícitos e dispostos a negociar um preço acessível, talvez porque viram que éramos uma marca que nem existia no papel ainda. Por coincidência, ele estava indo pra Indonésia. Fizemos duas pranchas e o feedback foi de que uma delas foi a prancha da vida dele. Isso nos deu muita motivação para seguir adiante, já que o Zulu tem mais de 40 tipos de prancha no quiver.

E como funciona essa parceria atualmente?

Além de um atleta da Oric, ele é nosso consultor de pranchas e nos ajuda muito. A Pâmella Mel esteve aqui na inauguração e ele ajudou a construir a prancha dela. Vestiu a camisa. Foi graças a ele que também vimos que somos capazes de fabricar pranchas mágicas. Hoje ele faz parte da equipe e confiamos muito nele.



E quais são os outros atletas?

Temos o Gustavo Borges, de 17 anos, que é o nosso atleta de Torres (RS). Além de um grande surfista, ele está muito focado em seus objetivos, que é tornar-se profissional. Também começamos um trabalho agora com a Pâmella, 12 anos, então eles entram como a nova geração. O Zulu, além da grande visibilidade, tem o lifestyle saudável e um estilo polido que contrasta com o surfe moderno do Gustavo. Ainda temos uma ligação forte com Fernando de Noronha, graças ao nosso diretor-executivo Thiago Telles, que nos abriu muitas portas no arquipélago.

Como funciona essa parceria com Fernando de Noronha?

Pensei que não poderíamos ficar só no Rio Grande do Sul, senão morreríamos na praia. Vejo que a galera que fica só por aqui não vai muito longe. Conheci o Thiago em Natal, e ele tinha um sushi lá em Noronha. Na época, queríamos deixar uma prancha decorativa para o restaurante dele e acabamos fazendo uma também para o Caia Souza, presidente da associação local. A partir daí, várias portas foram se abrindo… Realizamos viagens, ações sociais e ajudamos os principais surfistas de lá com uma prancha para cada. O Nego Noronha se apaixonou pela prancha e hoje temos uma parceria bem legal com ele, que veio prestigiar a nossa inauguração.

Quando surgiu a ideia de criar o Castelo da Oric?

As coisas foram dando certo, mas ainda estávamos com uma fábrica ‘”fundo de garagem” e precisávamos terceirizar alguns processos. Também comecei a ver algumas bagunças que impediam o negócio de evoluir. Foi aí que surgiu a oportunidade de vir para essa casa, que pertence a minha família há muitos anos, e eles cederam o espaço. Hoje tenho um contrato e pagamos um aluguel que deixa todo mundo satisfeito. Mas, como é família, isso ajudou muito o processo.

Esse castelo também é um patrimônio histórico de Porto Alegre, é uma casa alemã com mais de 70 anos. Não podemos mexer na fachada, mas reformulamos todo o interior. Hoje existe a fábrica lá embaixo e 100% do processo de fabricação é feito aqui. O Castelo também será uma casa dos atletas, eles podem vir a hora que quiserem.

E será aberto ao público?

Sim, claro. Essa casa é muito conhecida na zona sul. Tem gente que sonha em entrar aqui, tem história. Então é um ponto de encontro para celebrar esse lifestyle do surfe. Fica em frente ao Rio Guaíba, de cara para um pôr do sol maravilhoso e com um monte de verde em volta. Queremos transformar esse espaço em um ponto de encontro. Tem a fábrica no andar de baixo, o showroom – que ainda não esta 100% pronto – e pretendemos em breve ter um café, um estúdio de tatuagem e uma barbearia aqui dentro.



Como foi a inauguração?

Essa inauguração foi para dar o “start” de que realmente começamos. Já estamos produzindo a todo vapor desde pranchinhas, até longboards, passando pelos SUPs e pranchas de kite também. Estamos com uma parceria bem interessante com o Sava Clube, que fica em frente ao Castelo, na beira do Guaíba. Vamos ter aulas de SUP ali com exclusividade de pranchas da Oric.

Quais são os próximos passos?

Temos alguns projetos em mente para 2018. Vamos fazer um catálogo de pranchas, que ainda não temos, para organizar algumas coisas, e também já planejamos duas viagens. Uma delas é para Cuba, onde vamos incentivar o surfe local. Já estivemos por lá, e é um país com enorme tradição no esporte, mas que ainda não valoriza o surfe como deveria. Temos um atleta lá dentro, o Gaston Pomares, que além do surfe também pratica o kite. Ele tem o projeto de uma escolinha e vamos levar material de shape e pranchas para apoiá-lo.

Gaston é local de Jaimanitas e tem uma história bem interessante. Quando chegamos a Cuba, queríamos ir para essa praia e não conseguimos, porque o único acesso é pelo clube do governo. Foi bem complicado, mas conseguimos entrar. Além disso, temos um funcionário cubano aqui na fábrica e que não vê a família há mais de dez anos. Ele nos abriu algumas portas por lá e irá junto nesta viagem. Pretendemos contar essa história também.

Já no segundo semestre, vamos levar o Zulu e mais três surfistas locais de Fernando de Noronha para a Indonésia. Fora o Zulu, ninguém conhece a Indo, então vai ser uma viagem bem especial para o Caia Souza, Nego Noronha e um surfista da nova geração local de apenas 19 anos.



Qual é o conceito da Oric e por que a marca vem crescendo tão rápido?

Queremos que uma marca brasileira seja respeitada como uma marca do exterior. Temos mão de obra muito boa aqui, então o que faltava? Organização, falta de comprometimento, falta de qualidade nos materiais, humildade e responsabilidade. Vi que isso tinha que mudar. Fomos nos adaptando e hoje estamos aqui, crescendo.

O surfe é um esporte difícil, eu mesmo estou voltando a surfar só agora. Mas estou aqui na Oric para mostrar às pessoas que é possível recomeçar com mais de 30 anos, ter filho e esposa e continuar surfando. Temos um slogan que é “O surfe é para todos”, e é isso que a gente preza. O cara mais velho pode surfar e um exemplo disso é o Paulo Zulu, que tem 54 anos e surfa como um menino. Então isso é um lance muito importante para a Oric.



Source: Da garagem ao Castelo - Waves
Da garagem ao Castelo - Waves

segunda-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2018

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Shaka from Kamchatka – Russia

 


A few years back, a boat trip to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska had impressed me; it offered a genuine opportunity to find new waves, amongst landscape that I didn’t know existed. To explore these parts further, it seemed logical (and exciting) to aim for the Kamachtka Peninsula in Russia next, located in the Far East, in line with the Aleutians in the Bering sea (just 2000 kilometres away). The dream was to winter surf with a backdrop of snowy volcanoes, and hopefully, to understand why some people choose to live in such regions where the cold (and the bears!) might make life difficult. It was a bit of a gamble to go in the middle of winter as snow storms can make everything a bit difficult (and did!).

Kamchatka is the size of Sweden, but often unknown to the rest of Russia, since it is a 9-hour flight from Moscow. During the Cold War, and until 1992 the region was a military zone and closed to foreigners and most Russians. In the last couple of years, keen skiers and snowboarders have started flying there to enjoy the backcountry runs that 300 volcanoes (many of them still active) offer and a small group of locals started surfing.

Kamchatka has one key city of 200,000 people; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, located close to the Pacific Ocean, and surrounded by volcanoes as high as 3,400 metres. I was based there.. what a base!  It certainly has a strong soviet look to it, but this is what makes it unique; colourful and somewhat weathered apartment buildings (built low due to the frequency of earthquakes) spread along a large bay, populated by tough and adventurous Russians. At least the ones I met were, who all made me feel incredibly welcomed; inviting me into their homes (and beach huts!) and letting me tag along on a variety of missions. These were mainly surf and sometimes snowboard trips… and riding a snowmobile to reach a spot to hike up and snowboard down in minus 25 proved to be quite a challenge. Somehow surfing felt warmer – go figure!?

Given the limitations of my basic Frenglish, I struggle to capture in words how these amazing people made me feel; I loved them. We loved each other. They inspired me. Imagine a Russian giving you a hug after a cold surf, telling you that they will miss you when you go; it seems surreal but this is what happened every day, with so many of them. Here are three descriptions that hopefully give you an insight into the Kamchatka people:

Anton: you would never guess he used to be a lawyer! Heavily involved in the Russian snowboard community through national competition in his youth, judging at Sochi Olympics and running a snowboard coaching business, he became obsessed with surfing 10 years ago. You could say he is the true Russian surf
pioneer, certainly the guru for the Kamchatka surf “scene”. He started a surf school a few years back and his ambition is to develop a culture for his “surf family”. He is obsessed with progression; progression of his own impressive surfing skills on all kind of boards (including finless), or with starting a winter surf competition that attracted 10 surfers this year, or in “guiding” pro surfers that venture to this part; helping them set sail for surfing some bear-infested coastline. He and local surf photographer, Anya, even started their own surf clothing brand which has the authentic feel that I guess Quiksilver or Billabong once had. Anton treated me like a celebrity; he wouldn’t even let his friends sit in the front seat when driving to the surf…it had to be me! If only I had the surf skills to match the celebrity status!

Lyda: the only local girl who surfs in winter; keeping in mind that surfing here in winter means outside temperature of minus 10 to minus 20 degrees celsius (then you add the windchill!) and a water temperature rarely above 1 degree celcius. Getting changed outside makes you feel almost nauseous when dealing with a frozen jaw, fingers and toes and the not so soft offshore wind blowing straight from Siberia or somewhere that way! Most breaks are beach breaks too, guaranteeing the mother if all ice cream headaches on every duck dive. And the Northshore-style shore break was enough to fill your wetsuit with water within the first seconds of your session. Lyda makes time for surfing (several times a week) when not teaching climbing or salsa dancing! She once picked me up at 9 in the evening, dressed in her Spanish dress and heels after a salsa show, to go for a night surf… just picture it! Four wheel driving though snow for 45 minutes, to get to the beach, and surf in 0 degree water and -15 outside temperature! During the summer months, Lyda lives in a tent on the beach to teach kids how to surf and surf as much as possible. Lyda and Anton took turns every day to take me surfing, and we always did find surf…sometime small, sometime too big, but always offshore and often with sea lions!

The Kamchatka Freeride Community: a bunch of ski guides who decided to create multi-day tours for visitors, either heli-boarding or utilising their recently acquired sailing boat to find waves along the way, or even kayaking along the Peninsula. One year ago they finished building their own guest house with a restaurant, allowing their guests to simply live the whole adventure with their guides. Perched on a hillside in town, overlooking the harbour with the mountains on the horizon, it was an easy spot to be locked inside for 4 days when the snowstorm hit at Christmas time. I lived with them for 3 weeks and not once was a Vodka drunk (… this is almost not a lie – there was NYE to celebrate!)  It was all about skiing (surfing for me), working on the house (the guys are currently building a sauna) and shoveling mountains of snow!

All of these Kamchatka legends showed such drive to live the dream and to share it. They all travel where visas are not impossible to obtain for Russians, but always come back with the same conclusion… here is the best.

 

Super special thanks to:

Anton, Lyda, Katarina, Misha (amazing footage), Anna Gavrilova (amazing photography), the many Anya’s, the many Sasha’s, Kirill, Lera, Ulyana, Andrey, Igor, Ed, Pasha, Helena, Yury, Kisya…all the Bratishkas and Sistrishkas.…

 

Source: Shaka from Kamchatka – Russia
Shaka from Kamchatka – Russia