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In Western Australia, wilderness is just past the carpark.

By Jed Smith

Volume 29 Issue 2 (2020)

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On the cover: “Craig Anderson and I were surfing perfect, empty South Coast NSW,” says photographer John Respondek. “I’m normally not cocky, but we checked this shot on playback and I said to him, ‘That’s got to be a cover, right?’” TSJ 29.2 treks through the Western Australian wilderness looking for empty setups, tests twin-fins at an off-grid Mexican beach break, and recounts some of surfing’s most notorious travel disasters. Essayist Ralph Sneeden’s reflections on bi-coastal identity and shaper-artist Trey Edwards home in Daytona Beach hit on cultural points, while Todd Glaser’s underwater photography and John Respondek’s highlights from six weeks in Indonesia provide visual counterbalance.

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