Surfing Is Supposed To Be Para

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nothing is more rewarding than the search and discovery of perfect uncrowded waves. This notion of the search for uncrowded surf was brought to the attention of the general public with the 1963 release of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer. The film documented two surfers traveling around the world to exotic locales previously left unexplored by the surfers of Western civilization. The images that Brown brought back to mainstream movie screens forever changed the lives of surfers. This film changed how surfers viewed the world. No longer were surfers confined to their local coastlines, they were inoculated with desire to seek out their own paradise.
Over the years many surfers have found their little piece of paradise and never left. Instead these surfers have opted to spend the rest of their lives surfing the waves they initially had intended to just visit and experience. They never left these beaches because the waves were uncrowded and the beaches were breathtakingly ...

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five years has received a rash of media exposure which has abruptly rendered the islands as the latest “must-surf” zone for the international surf junky. This area has been tremendously exploited by the surf companies as well. Quicksilver, the number one surfwear company, has centered their entire advertising campaign around images extracted from local Mentawaian surf spots.
The waves these island bear are still perfect yet, they are rapidly becoming more and more crowded, but they still are a lot less crowded than other places. To surfers living in highly populated and industrial countries the Mentawais still offer the chance to experience how it “used to be”. ...

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