Deep West

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When the berg winds blow, the winding dirt tracks and open desert along South Africa’s isolated north-west coast call.

By Sacha Specker

Volume 35 Issue 3 (2026)

35.4
Four Days in Hibernia

A transatlantic gamble in Ireland.

By Grant Ellis
35.4
Acclaim as Consequence

The dreamlike, nature-inspired paintings and…

By Biddle Duke
35.4
Keeper of the Arc

Taylor Knox breaks down his Mount Rushmore of…

By Kyle DeNuccio
35.4
Influences: Pete Cabrinha

What keeps the big-wave pioneer and artist’s…

By Pete Cabrinha

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Volume 35 Issue 3

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On the cover: Eithan Osborne, apex phase, Indonesia. “He had a career session that day,” says photographer Duncan Macfarlane. we view the stills of a revered auteur, report from the Baltic Sea, camp in South Africa, and study the open-ocean exploits and innovations of a Garden Isle surfer/navigator. We also follow the unadulterated tracks of an Australian modern classicist, examine the compulsive need for waves, hook big bass in Middle America with a Hawaiian shredder, and more.

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