From Algeria to Haiti: “World’s Sexiest Surf Photographer” Shares Secret Surf Spots in New Guidebook

Never get lost hunting perfect waves ever again!

(Editor’s note:  The Californian John Callahan has long been regarded as the “world’s sexiest surf photographer” with many describing his look as Jesus-like. Callahan made his name in the nineties while working for Surfer magazine, peaking in 1992 with first publishable photos of a long-held secret in the Philippines, the wave he named Cloud 9 after a local choco bar. Between 2000 and 2016, according to Warshaw’s Encyclopedia of Surfing, “Callahan visited just over 60 countries, including Laos, Burma, Angola, Algeria, China, Gabon, Haiti, India, South Korea, Mauritania, Madagascar, Oman, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.” The book he writes about in the third person below – post-modernist as well! –  is a collection from these travels.)

Coming your way this October from Schiffer Publications is surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide, a new 304-page book documenting the epic adventure quest of The surfEXPLORE Group across 28 chapters of international surfing adventure in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

From Algeria to Haiti to Western Sahara, John Seaton Callahan and the surfEXPLORE Group have ventured far off the beaten track for decades; finding, surfing, and documenting new and seldom-surfed waves. Through their own research, they’ve scored waves more often than not, proving their ability to do research, study locations and learn conditions to be in the right place at the right time in diverse locations from the distant Islands of Pacific Indonesia, the desert waves in Mauritania, typhoon swells in South Korea and The Philippines to autumn Mistral swell events in the Mediterranean, The surfEXPLORE Group knows where to be, and when to be there.

There’s never been a surfing-themed adventure travel book quite like surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide.

Without having read a single one of the 56 982 words in this book and based solely on your own assumptions, prejudices and random hearsay, what’s your take on The surfEXPLORE Group?

Brave explorers of exceptional intelligence and integrity, bringing the benefits of surf travel to impoverished and neglected communities worldwide that happen to have good surf in their backyard and making a better world for all surfers or mere shallow opportunists, exploiting and taking advantage of locals for their own personal gratification and enrichment by publicising the good surf in remote areas of the world?

For the best comment in the ruthless bearpit known as the BeachGrit comments section, quite often a turgid cesspool of vitriol, character assassination and clever insults, we are giving away a FREE signed copy of surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide.

So focus your efforts and give it your best shot to win a copy of surfEXPLORE: Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide signed by the author, John Seaton Callahan.

Chapter preview video – Algeria, Angola, China PRC Hainan and Comoros