Month: July 2026

Jul 08
Don’t Splash, Don’t Run, Don’t Look Delicious

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. Watching a pelican or an osprey dive and harvest a fish is one of surfing’s most interesting sights. The fish don’t see it that way. They never see it coming… Surfers have a whole catalog of animal-attack […]

Jul 04
Swell of the Amazons

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. Rios was, according the the publisher, the only writer who claimed to know the location of the Amazonian island. No one dared dispute him, likely because if it were true, he’d have much tougher friends than they […]

Jul 01
Lineup Dispatches from the Storm Queen’s Reef

Reprinted with permission of LeCarta.com, a map and surf story project developed by Surf Science Institute of Earth. No one hops the globe in search of adventure like this evolutionary heroine… The first thing Lara said, sitting on her board while gray chop slapped at our rails, was: “This place doesn’t like visitors. It tolerates […]