SPACE OASIS

                                                                                                                                            photo Pero
     gATO GOES: LEAVING BIARRITZ TO FAR OUT SURFAR LOCATIONs!
  

FRANCE NOV. 16


Driving all night Volkswagen
packed tight 7 test foils, 6 cameras and 3 hepcat hit the road south through centre espana. Madrid midi, cadiz and the straights by midnight. Early morning 6am aboard a ferry boat headed for the African continent. Quite a long senic venture.
RGK blazing the once gyped  drawn trail insearch of foreign finds. Pero prepared to catch inspiring sight with his camera day or night. Bradford with guitar providing handmade sound and "along for the trip" catching pictures of his own. Spain's vast Geology looks like landscape painting flying past at 100Km. The color changes with the temputure as we reach Europe's gateway to Northern Africa. Surfar prototypes still stuck at customs, gato had to go, meeting up with chiz, Toshi from seakong and Nakamura Jr.& Sr. already at Surfar basecamp on the otherside of the straight.. The original registration was jammed behing the dashboard and African custom officals are quick to take a car. "Driving can be more like surfing for me than surfing". When the road is open and interesting terrain is never ending.  Thats the freedom that Surfar hopes to represent. A sort of enigma, its not really about just surfing. its about living with surf. Thats why Surfar is so unique. Most surf travel stories in todays world are so progressive. World class surfers surfing freakwaves. like super heroes and fantasy lands. towing into monsters, or living boats locked outside of remote islands to catch to perfect boardshort selling photo. Surfar is quite surreal in the fact that we represent single fin evolution on a low non commercial frequency. The performance level is not completely out of the average surfers ability. Simple esthetics , trim speed + direction change avec casual style in even critical situations. We are a breed longboarder. Whether some admit it or not. Sure, we all want to be good surfers.  Single fin surfing doesnt have the ability to keep up with the surf industries Bullet train of progressive athleticism and monthly line sheets with updated pipeline and tahiti movies of heroes drilling super holes for every drop. thats some futuristic shit man. Gato heroi therefore has nothing to prove. Its more of a feeling a mood. a wavelenght. A genre, a trip, we are on it. here it is SURFAR! Cats, dogs, boys and girls all aboard the Marrakesh express. hope all is  well in California and all the bars, glad to be far far away. Staying far out, not to return until 2012 if it last that long. keep hosing down the edison plant, keep it cool at sano and trestles. Get ready SURFAR OZ is coming to bring aquatic creature like foils and planes down under! SURREAL SURF is next in line, with  far out places 2012!

SPAIN'S ROMANCE LIES MOST ON THE OPEN ROAD        photo Pero    
Lanscape scenery reminding a van of surf-gremlin theres more out there than just the surf beach

                               
        Sleeping on a boat after driving 18 hours at 100 km maxed out volkswagen, maxed out driver rests for the trip ahead. . .photo pero
        SURFAR! PRPOTOTYPES missing?
Guilham waits in Biarritz for the rest of the test foils to arrive from customs. Once recieved he hits the road south to the surfar basecamp location. thank you guilham! Good conditions predicted for the next couple of days. see the trip here!