Two years ago!
Were you driven just a little mad by Mick Fanning’s sandbottom point reveal? Did you drive all over the internet trying to get a little bite on where it might be?
Is it Mex? Is somewhere around the horn? The Caribbean?
Is it Jordy’s famous right from Mozambique?
Or might it be somewhere deep in the heart of the Maghreb?
In this video made by the Basque surfer Kept Acero two years ago, he travels to The Islamic Republic of Mauritania to hunt a sandbottom right. It’s a place that still enslaves its people (twenty per cent of ’em) and where the rest are earning a buck-and-a-half a day.
Oh it’s a hell of a joint.
Does the wave, here, look familiar?
It’s too small for shredding, yes, but you do see the potential?
Does it make you want to plop out your little breasts and shriek and scream?
Turns out the place was fickle and didn’t get good all that often.
A bit of history:
Mauritania used to be Spanish territory, hence the guys speaking spanish in the video.
Morocco claimed part of it and thanks to USA support got it from Spain which had bigger troubles then;.and then fucked the poor guys over(Mauritania is rich in fish, water and oil..)
Google”Marcha verde” and you´ll learn more.
Its pretty sad actually when we Spaniards go there and the guys show you the old spanish ID and ask what the hell happened ,why did we leave them there without fighting.
Anyway, water there in winter is cold, as in 4/3 cold, and no much warmer in summer either..
But since everybody is saying that´s in Mauritania maybe and wrong..
You’d think you’d still give it a go after travelling for 12hrs!
It’s a red herring!
Is Shane there too?
thought he was the Red Herring