The Sands of Walvis

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How a fickle sandbar on the Skeleton Coast became the most captivating wave you’ll never surf.

By Will Bendix

Volume 29 Issue 5 (2020)

35.4
Four Days in Hibernia

A transatlantic gamble in Ireland.

By Grant Ellis
35.4
The Time We Carry

Meditating on a fickle Pacific Northwest beach…

By Michael Kew
35.3
The Navigator

Interisland and panoceanic explorations with Nick…

By Chris Cook
35.3
Welcome to Hel

Chasing grinding Baltic cylinders in Poland.

By Jason Lock

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Volume 29 Issue 5

In this issue

On the cover: We’ve explored the tube from every conceivable POV, including the surfer’s. Recent developments in “spherical capture” are rubbing up against virtual reality, as displayed by Jordy Maree in South Africa. Photo by Ian Thurtell. In TSJ 29.5, we pay close inspection to waypoints as far as Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to take stock of that sand-dredging bender, and as wide as the snowsurf movement deep in the mountains of Japan’s Hokkaido Island. Profiles of Waikiki style staple Arthur “Toots” Anchinges and Australian surfer-rocker-taxidermist Jaleesa Vincent provide contemporary written portraiture, while a look at the premillennial photography of charmer Rennie Ellis and a 10-spread roundup of the latest work from the world’s best surf shooters offers page-stopping visual stimuli. All that, and more, between the flaps.

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