Chapter: 7
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster
- Surf and Destroy
- Terror from Below
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
- An Explosion of Talent
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
- I Predict Waves in Your Future
- Cult of the Surf Photographer
- Video Killed the Surf Movie
- Waves for Sale
- Surf Boom Redux
- Terminally Hip
- Super-Sizing the World Tour
- Somebody Should Do Something
- Surfers vs Apartheid
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado!
- The Last Big Wave
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace
- A Beloved Rival
Waves for Sale
Kevin Naughton, Cloudbreak, 1984. Photo: Craig Fineman
Isla Natividad. Photo: Larry Moore
Fijian surfer, Cloudbreak. Photo: Bill Alexander
Tavarua Resort. Photo: Scott Winer
Tavarua lifted pay-to-play surf travel out of the dirt. The resort was comfortable and clean, with a growing list of list of amenities, and the food was excellent. Not only was the island mosquito-free, but heart-shaped, and Tavarua cleverly marketed itself as a place were a hardcore surfer could in good conscience bring a nonsurfing mate.
In the late 1970s, a surf spot on Java named Grajagan, on the island of Java, became home to the first pay-to-play surf camp. Over the next decade, prepackaged surf travel caught on in a big way. By 1988, Sydney’s Surf Travel Company—the original surfing-only travel agency—listed nine destinations in its brochure, from Indonesia to Baja to the Philippines. The camps themselves were owned by Americ...
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