Located literally in the center of the Equator at a Latitude 0 0’ 0” lies the small Latin American Nation of Ecuador, arguably one of the best tropical summer surf destinations on the planet. Ecuador is a true surfer’s paradise and you are about to find out why.
Read MoreGalápagos Exploration, A New Wave Discovery in the Galápagos.
The Galápagos Islands situated well off the coast of mainland Ecuador would have to be among one of the most undiscovered surfing regions on the planet. While visiting the island of Santa Cruz I was fortunate enough to be invited on a boat trip with a dozen of Ecuador's best surfers to document a wave that had only just been discovered. This is what went down.
Read MoreSurvival of the Fittest, All You Ever Wanted to Know About Surfing in the Galápagos
Located over 900 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador lies the ruggedly beautiful desolate islands of the Galápagos. While this region is most famed for raw beauty, vast abundance of unique wildlife and the key inspiration for the development Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution; the survival of the fittest but what many do not realise is that these world renown islands are in fact home to some of the best and heaviest waves in Ecuador. Some have gone as far as to informally label the Galápagos as the Hawaii of South America and not without due reason as one only needs to take a quick glance at the position of the Galápagos islands on the world map to deduce that the island are in prime location to receive the large north and south swell lines that frequent the region.
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