One thousand dollar reward smokes out location! And it's a…surprise!
The game moves fast in this gorgeous connected world. Within minutes of posting a one-thousand dollar reward for any information that led to the whereabouts of Mick Fanning’s secret wave, an email and a telephone call had sorted out the necessary details.
There were the usual guesses: India, Christmas Island etc.
But as it transpires.
It’s in Africa. (Although a different part of the continent to what I’d supposed.)
And it needs a south swell, a real big south, to break.
Some other notable information. There’s a simple beachfront resort with air-conditi0ned rooms nearby with a tariff to please the budget traveller
English is the official language.
The local people sure do like to party.
The children are lovely and are very good dancers.
The region was featured in an extremely famous surfing movie.
The food ain’t bad. Hell of a lot of fish. No fun for happy vegans.
At night, the equatorial sky is of such a deep blue cosmic presentation one can lose complete orientation.
Celebratory cocktail?
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Kenyaaaaaa
Africa.
Ask yourself:
Are you going there any time soon?
If not, don’t worry about it being crowded.
There’s plenty of other things to worry about.
Worry about Waco getting crowded.
I just saw your eye for the first time – it’s fucking weird.
Jeezus 🙁
Cheers Ridsy
Rip Curl has a habit for this sort of thing going all the way back to destroying that wave in southern Mex.
Has it dawned on anyone that this is complete bullshit written to throw you off of the actual location? These guys would do just about anything to mess with your head so why would this be any different. They were not English speaking in the first video so why would that change?
If English was good enough for Jebus, then it’s good enough for them!
Blahhh…
The moment I see this photo I knew…
An endless and tubular right???
In front at my street, Posto 5 Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Suck this you all!!
Wakanda?
Mick’s wave…..more imperialist bullshit
the only thing that makes me lose orientation is Ketamine… am I getting warm yet?
Ketamine makes the kids dance… at toga parties?
Red hot
Fuck Rip Curl for hyping this.
And fuck St Mick for agreeing to it.
What’s the matter Mick, you haven’t got enough money ?
Still gotta suck the tit ? Pffft
And fuck it, seeing as I’m in the mood – Tyler, you surfed that wave like shit. So fail. Ripper wasted their money on you, honey. You may as well not have been there.
And Derek, this ain’t cool. It’s akin to Peter Mel with his stupid yellow marker during Bells.
Absolute Cuntardery.
Boycott this site immediately and throw your Mick Fanning lounge robe and slipper set in the trash!
Can I keep the life size cardboard cutout?
My personal shrine to Mick has been dutifully dissembled and everything has been burnt. Never again shall I cross that hallowed doorway in Cooly.
(Note of regret: The lounge robe was comfy tho.)
Do you choose the profile thumbnails in a sort of system? When people all have the same one, do they have the same IP address? When you used the rainbow flag was it to identify the homophobic among us?
Everyone who hasn’t chosen a pic gets one I think. The current one is raising my blood pressure by a few points. And last year there was that composite sketch of the sex criminal doing the rounds for about a month. If I was the king of Beach Grit this would be illegal.
Yeah if someone hasn’t picked a avatar they get lumped with the guest one, which I can change…
Loved the rasta bracelets, kind of bummed I had an avatar when those were being dished out. Would gladly retire ‘Jane Reymith’ for a puka shell anklet.
Well done on getting the shadow, btw. Quite entertaining!
If we reply to him our comment shows up under a deleted comment on the main page… So ill flick him the odd up vote to keep things looking authentic.
Why the fuss Ast?
Seriously it’s 2 foot shit semi-closeouts?
Why did Mick travel half way round the world for that? Tyler got better barrels at Byron or straddie or whatever in that clip a while ago.
I’m presuming a trip like that would cost $5k at least from anywhere in the western world, and Imho that’s not good value.
Considering there’s never been footage of Mick at DP or Supers, I’m assuming he’s never been. He’s tripping
US$500 return from London, which is pretty western world’ish.
If I’ll tell my wife its a cheap trip then! Just need $2500 to get to London!
Not cheap from my neck of the woods either, but for an awful lot of the western world it’s easy and not expensive.
“Why did Mick travel half way round the world for that?”
To use his ability and likeness to sell Rip Curl shit? It wasn’t a self-funded passion project.
Yes agreed for the Search. But let’s not be fooled that Mick found anything worthwhile. Nacho on the other hand…
Not sure I ever claimed anything about it being something worthwhile. Merely answered your question.
Touche
It’s all love here
Well I’m actually grateful they’re encouraging kooks to nick off to Africa in search of 2 foot waves with their Tomo boards.
Might clear the lineup at some actual world class waves!
Cuntardery?!
Another one to add to my Aussie Bogan Thesarus!
Ahem, kiwi actually.
But feel free to use it often and vehemently.
You’ll grow to love it.
I love it already!
Use the noun “cuntard” (credit to Twillsy) often as well.
Mix and match with a gerund such as “fucking” and you have mastered antipodean English.
You are now fully empowered. Enjoy !
Why on earth would would you encourage the exposure and location of a spot that many have obviously kept secret?
What do you gain from this?.
This is wrong on so many levels, it’s bad enough people giving away locations in comment sections, but a business running a comp to expose the place and then exposing it to the masses.
I hope karma catches up with you guys…total scum.
I hope this Karma business doesn’t have a ripple down effect onto Rip Curls poor employees in North Korea. That would be a tragedy indeed.
No prob Negs.
Plenty of cheap labour elsewhere.
Marketing might have to adjust their budget briefly while the change over takes effect.
Seventh Wave 🤙
you didnt know these guys are complete dicks, bitter at the surfing world?
Je Suis Complete Dick
(holds fist in air)
Isn’t the selling out of the place the mass market videos released with much fanfare and hype? Are we then all supposed to sit quietly like good little consumers and buy the wetsuit but not dare to speculate on where this wave might be? Leave it to the industry insiders and glittering surf gods to throw a leg over, while we silently and gratefully rub one out in a dark corner? Fuck that, The People are not Mick’s cucks. Surfing is our too.
If this place was supposed to remain secret, then Mick Fanning should have surfed the place and then shut the fuck up and not participated with his sponsor’s desire to blow it up for a nickel. Fanning is solely responsible for uncorking the new spot genie, which he full well knows never has and never will go back in the bottle. Personally, I won’t even reveal if there ARE secrets around my parts. If there were, I’d as soon cut off my own balls as broadcast surf porn of them to a million drooling perverts. Derek and Chas, I think, are at least not industry hypocrites, not expecting the Everyman surfer to live by a moral code they themselves won’t abide.
Great points… all of the rest of you all should be pissed at Rip Curl for outing the place, not others, BG included, for trying to find out where it is. Rip Curl’s singular goal in showing these videos is to sell more wetsuits… PERIOD.
Also, not sure it will end well in the long run, but other than the clues on here, I don’t think Derek plans to share the exact location with any of us…. that bastard 🙂
I will stalk Chas in the lineup at D Street once his shoulder is in full form and see what I can overhear. Although he says he does not like to talk to anyone in the lineup.
if it’s any consolation, the reveal is underwhelming, to say the least. Now, Naxto’s wave, should we offer reward for that grinder?
How many punters can even surf that Naxto thing without getting smashed? The surfers I know who surf waves like that, enough to manage at that spot, wont be pulling the trigger on getting there on a rare swell because they have their local wired and get all the set waves anyway. Also, how many of those people, who do travel, who rather go there than the ments?
After all that malarkey, few?
^This exactly.
Nachos wave is a Thumper, there’s one 6ft+ wave on that clip that looks good, but they chop it short (they chop everything) so obviously he didn’t get anywhere. But that wave might be worth a ticket. Might.
Let’s not all lose our heads by forgetting Mick’s wave is 2ft and he squeezes into maybe a 4 second head dip.
I’m embarrassed for Tyler in this clip.
If this is the best that wave has been in the 2 years Mick and Rip Curl have had to mastermind this, then Keep Searching fellas.
I have little interest in this generally, as in the scheme of things whether a wave goes ridden or unridden is an insignificant item in this frail world, but I have a question for you Derek. If this was a wave in Australia, with respectful, respected, protective locals many degrees of separation closer to you, would you have played it the same? With repercussions and reprimand closer to you and your peers?
The point is Mick and Rip Curl blew this 2ft wave out.
They cut down the forest, of course others will follow and set up camp in the clearing they made.
My buddy used my intel to score the prize – I know both locations – Please donate to this cause & unlock the new NeverNeverLand!
Just 5000 people donate there morning StarBucks or Vegan Smoothie and we can buy this lady a humble home!
5000 X $5 = $25000.00 = R380,000.00 South African Rand
See link below,Thank you, Cheers
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To any surfer out there here’s some extra encouragement to donate, if the fundraiser is successful the exact location of the Mr Fannings and Mr Gonzalez Waves will be revealed to the World. Don’t ask me how I know, I just do. No it’s not Mauritania!
The funds will be used to purchase a social development housing project 2 bedroom unit for R380K or $25000.00 + –
Walmer Link House Port Elizabeth South Africa
100% most of that’s true..Mick and Rip curl are also in the wrong.
But that still doesn’t justify, naming or giving huge clues to the waves location, especially seeing it seems to have survived discovery by the masses so far after previous videos.
Hopefully if they are smart they are just red hearings anyway.
No one wants to surf in Port Angeles though
And what did you gain from it? If you can’t copy/paste direct coordinates you’ve merely left with scant more details than you came with.
I read your comments on SwellNet pretty often. Surprised you didn’t drop any names or talk absolute stories once in this one mate! Carry on though it’s good stuff.
Yeah, you can see that wave in the “Lion King”. I wouldn’t have classified this movie as a surfing one, though.
A country with plenty of animals and people being prone to surliness, that’s the one.
And there is a river nearby, with dangerous hippos! Not kidding!
If you think that wave is good you should see the one in Snow White.
Not to mention the Little Mermaid
I’m french, but not that stupid. Neither Snow White nor the Little Mermaid are surf movies, but you could have mentioned Finding Nemo. I just checked wikipedia, the action in Finding Nemo takes place in Sidney. But this wave is in Africa, right?
The one in Fantasia is pretty awesome, but the spot has since been blown up to make a marina for wealthy super-yachts.
Derek, you are a bloody tease. Of the 11 African countries, they speak, English, four have surf, three were featured in Endless Summer.
I know it’s not South Africa, because of the Equatorial night sky clue. So that leaves two countries, Ghana and Nigeria. Both have lots of warm water. rights. I am guessing it’s Shipwreck off the Snake Island.
“Then things got CRAZY! First, the water is very, very, strong , extremely intoxicating and UNSAFE. As we walked along the shore line I thought I would let my feet get wet. I made the mistake of looking at the water. Before I knew it I was in a trace like state and I could not move. There was a big wave coming straight for me and I can’t SWIM! But I was so intoxicated my the water I could not move or speak.
I remember thinking if I don’t move I am going to drown and I don’t want to die in Nigeria! Somehow, I was able to pull myself out of the trace and run back from the wave right be for in hit the beach. My husband had no idea that I had almost lost my life. Until he saw the fear on my face!
As if that was not enough, leaving we were accosted by two guys who demanded N10,000 from us. My husband who is a Nigerian laughed and refused. They treated to vandalize our car and block us from leaving! They then called for reinforcements. My husband paid the RANSOM we were then allowed to leave.
Would I recommend this beach NO!!! It is not SAFE! I learned later that people drown at this beach weekly. In addition, the beach establishments are run by criminals who regular extort money from people who visit the beach. No wounder there is a SPIRIT that lives in the WATER and it’s MEAN!”
TripAdvisor review quote: Elegushi Beach (which is unlikely to be the magic wave)
Intoxicating water, intoxicating masculinity necessary to negotiate a safe exit… THE PATRIARCHY IS RUNNING RAMPANT.
Would have said Mozambique before reading the English speaking part.
Mozambique sand bottom rights are vastly better, I’m told.
no. Mozambique has terible waves and the water is filled with Bull sharks. dont go there
“Prone to Surliness” sounds like Chas trying to surf.
so it’s in land locked Uganda…
Lake Victoria. You need a fair bit of swell.
Is this like a pyramid scheme? If so I want in on the second floor. 2k.
range strumblings