Africa is NOW on the Bucket List!

It looks like it has a lot of slope to it, and isn't too steep at take off. So your point about foam is probably correct. If you don't have Slater level paddling capabilities, I imagine you could still make up for that with the right bottom shape and some extra volume.

 

27 second barrel in real time. I doubt you find ANY wave offering that length of ride in the tube anywhere in the world. Surfline has the Koa Smith interview, and his scream was calling off a shoulder-hopper from ruining what he said was without a doubt the single best wave of his life.

 

after watching this the other day, and hearing "wish you were here" on the way to my spot yesterday I've been on pink floyd kick. I just listened to the whole dark side of the moon album and now I'm on the wall. def helping me get through the work day and the stoke alive haha

 

Africa has all kinds of wonders...like this one-----> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TPwRh8uexo blows my mind how this now extinct wave jacks up..enjoy

 

I can think of a few... Desert Point, Barra, various other right points around Salina Cruz, Superbank (ok, not really a wave anymore), Red Bluff, Nokandui's, Rifles, and probably dozens of other places in the world that are under the radar (for example, one of the longest waves in the world is in Malaysia?!).

Also, places like this wave (2:15) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIE01HgqiJ4... No idea where this is, but it looks to be one of the best waves in the world.

P.S. Namibia probably has a couple other skeleton bays hiding somewhere, and there is probably incredible undiscovered waves in Western Sahara.

 

Think at around the 2:00 minute mark is called 'super-suck' or something like that in Indo...

 

hey broski,it is where the wave is I know that for a fact,but really who cares,most of us cant make it there.u know how I know this,because that little patch of sand that looks like a sandbar,has been disappearing for the last 30 years and they been saying that the wave is going to disappear soon,itll just be the ocean.

and its extremely hard to surf because the wave breaks so fast,and the current is like Puerto Escondido x ocean beach x a million.imagine a wave that long,all the water rushing up the beach has to go back out and creates like football field(in width) sized rips.thats why people drive back up the point because the wave is so long and paddling back to the takeoff zone is nearly impossible and extremely dangerous(sharks).I had a good youtube vid on Namibia documentary from regular surfers that explained pretty much what I said,cant find it tho.

 

http://www.swellnet.com/news/surfpolitik/2012/09/28/skeleton-bay-death-wave-foretold

here is the link I used to find that sat map on google maps.any basic indication of a spot and I will find it through satellite.check it out broski,still the wrong spot right?

 

dude sandspit has seen its good days too, just to add another.

 

Upon further investigation, you are correct Cepriano... I was convinced it was a few km south, looks like there is another mental point down there as well.

 

i know theres got to be hundreds more waves like that in w Africa,not just Namibia.problem is its mostly war torn 3rd world countries and unless u want to hike into the jungles and find perfect empty surf,nobodys going to discover it.I did a lot of research on the spot over the years.thats why I save the sat image so if one day im lucky enough to get there then I know exactly where to go.but if u look at it on the google satellite theres like no towns or anything for hundreds of miles.im looking at the sat now,theres a place called sandwhich bay south of skeleton that looks exactly the same,probly the spot u were thinking of,i bet the waves there are just as good

 

The town of Walvis Bay is super close. Just looked it up, and there are tons of nice hotels and vacation rentals there. Seems like a trip to skeleton bay wouldn't be as "rugged" as the surf industry would like us to think.