In this rapidly shrinking world, it’s reassuring to know that there are still wild places and wilder waves that have gone unnoticed by the droves of traveling surfers. Granted, the reasons for anonymity in such places is becoming increasingly severe.
It was a mere couple years ago that a Google Earth challenge issued to the public by Surfing Magazine uncovered what is now considered among the best waves on the planet–a mind-bendingly long left-handed sandbank dubbed “Skeleton Bay” in remote Namibia.
Just today, a new video was released from Namibia’s Northern neighbor–Angola–and the new wave that has been discovered there seems every bit as good as the last unearthed West African treasure. Up until 2002, Angola was in the grips of a bloody civil war, and the effects are still apparent today, as the country still has among the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates on the planet. Not a leisurely surf trip by any means, but as you’re about to see, sometimes fortune favors the bold. In this case, the bold being filmmaker Dan Mace along with South African surfers Davey and Benji Brand.
