Skeleton Bay Is Disappearing | Get your 20-sec barrels right now!

 

Imagine having a 24-hour trip from hell getting to Namibia to fulfill all your Skeleton Bay 20-second barrel dreams only to find that the wave is gone! The horror.

Unfortunately it may be a reality in a decade or two. The same winds that helped create the perfect wave in the 70’s are also going to be the death of it eventually. That’s the gift and the curse of surf spots. They are always changing. Being created (Like Lagundri Bay, Nias after an earthquake) and being killed off due to man-made and natural causes. Like life itself.

So if you’re a screw foot and like getting really long, punishing barrels better book that ticket asap.

 

Sample:

“While it’s widely believed to be one of the best waves in the world now, it didn’t even exist until the late ’70s, when Namibia’s predominant southerly winds fluctuated by 20 degrees, altering nearshore currents and sand flow, which created a kink in the coastline for sand to collect, forming the freight-train left. Unfortunately, the same winds that created the bank in the first place are also slowly killing it, as the collecting sand is likely to eventually fill the inside of the point completely, straightening out the coastline and ruining the break. Some estimate that the wave as we know it today will disappear in the next decade.”

 

Click to SURFER MAG for the ‘Sea Change’ article on Skeleton Bay in Namibia

 

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