Ok braddahs it's rainy and no swell today so the mind is racing. For you geologist folk out there, you're well aware of the continental evolution of the earth's landscape over the years. Just like Lougle Erph helps us postulate new secret spots out there, I challenge you to take the earth's state in a given period and use your imagination in predicting where in the world it was macking with barrells and points and reefs based on the topography of the era. Who knows, cavemen could've been shredding on lightweight stone boards on the most epic of Paleolithic points. A Shaka on the wall of a cave would tell all.
My Answer: The Point area of North West Peru. Either Baterias or Organos. Organos is a right and left reef, huge spitting barrels and Baterias is a Left Hand Monster.... According to my calculations, that would leave nothing but open ocean and that NW tip of Peru just stick out there sucking up prehistoric swell my brothers... Me and Fred Flintstone would be shredding that sh(( all day.
iv been saying for years,west Africa.if ur bored and have time,look at the northwest coast of Africa on google maps,not talking morocco im talking Liberia and south.also the southeast of Africa is wave rich.people see footage of Namibia,the endless barrel,and I have to think,theres got to be plenty of more waves like that in the area.most people wouldn't want to go,including me,with fear of being kidnapped by rebels.the Africans make al queda look like catholic school children. also lots of places in indo besides bali and Sumatra.the best thing about surfing is the endless pursuit of a new spot.theres plenty of epic waves,theyr just in all the wrong places
Yeah, but you have to remember that we are talking pangea here my brother. West Africa is was the old indiana back in the day. It was center continent... Now the north east coast of Africa, in this application would have maybe been rad. It would just be one big ocean, so who knows what side was getting better swell...
I've thought about the surf Pangea would of has at times, but also I bet Mars was cranking back in the day. There's planets out there with probably waves made of liquid silver and ****. It would be pretty awesome. Even imagine swell of the past history like 1000 years ago. I'm going to get a time machine and surf Noah's archs flood swell on a sup.
probably had some huge swells. If there was essentially only one land mass the potential wind fetch would wrap 2/3 around the globe.
Yeah, even the westcoast of the US would have been sucking up swell with 10,000 mile fetches. "GOOD MORNING, THIS IS CAVEMAN-SHREDDER WITH YOUR STONE AGE, DAWN PATROL SURF REPORT FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR THIS DAY OF APRIL 24TH, 1.8 GA. THE NOR-CAL BUOYS ARE READING 76 FEET AT A PERIOD OF 44 SECONDS. BRING YOUR STONE-GUN WITH A GOOD PIN TALE. ALSO THE BOYS WILL BE LASO-TOWING OFF OF MEGALODON FINS AT GHOST-TREE TO ASSIST THEM WITH GETTING INTO THESE 150 FOOT FACES. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND OFFSHORE. A -22 FOOT LOW TIDE WILL BE AT SUNRISE AND THE TIDE WILL MAX OUT AT 19 FEET AROUND MID-AFTERNOON. HAPPY SHREDDING.
Yeah man. And I bet you could have trunked it that day and got barrel in Antarctica. Well, those Dinosaurs had it coming. They were emitting way to much carbon dioxide. They were smoking too many cigarettes, using too much gasoline and not thinking about their future man. No wonder things got to hot for them... I mean, it's not like the earth just does what it wants sometimes, and creates a new atmosphere and like, moves continents around... It was the dinosaurs fault. They ruined it for us...
That little notch created between North America and South America looks insane. Some cover from all that wind.
If I recall correctly, Fred Flinstone surfed the sh!t out of a Brontosaurus tail and launched a huge air at the beginning of every episode. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Confirmed
What a good call Douglas. Fred makes the steep drop and is clearly a back foot surfer. Imagine the turtles they had back in Pangaea. Bigger than a brontosaurus.
There is a place up in the Hobe Sound Nature Refuge that has mounds of Native Americans just west of the dune line just north of Pecks Lake. We used to camp there and surf there but am now too old to deal with the no seeums. Just south of there is a place called Stumps. There are tree stumps in the sand at that spot. Only there. Mangroves are thick on the west side of the dune but beach side it is basic east coast seascape, except for the small stretch of stumps sticking out of the beach. Just off the beach there it breaks really good, like an A frame with lots more power than surrounding spots. The bottom is not sand, and not reeef, but a primordial marl of compressed roots and detritus of a long ago era, when the forest extended way way out beyond the current waterline. It is kinda spongy but solid, kinda slick and flat, but warbly and knotted in texture and form. It focuses the energy of the shorebreak and makes it break like a reef break, but if you hit bottom you get more slimed than cut. My point is, we are surfing on prehistoric breaks that morphed into present breaks, and our present breaks will be totally altered by rising seas. Picture the final scene of Planet of the Apes of the Statue of Liberty sticking out of the sand. So maybe thirty years fromm now or less, the entire planet will have a totally new set of breaks and premiere surf spots, and present day spots will be mooring fields for houseboats.
Yeah, before I moved here, I was researching what a "folly" was, which is a small inlet/rivermouth that is filled with ocean water and goes in and out with the tide. I.E. Burkes Beach.... Anyway, it took me months to actually figure out what one was. I asked on here, no one knew... The #1 definition all over the net for a "Folly" was old buried tree lines along the shore from VERy old mari-time forests from years past... So, at that point, that is what I expected to see on the beach here at "The Folly" was buried tree stumps etc... Anyway, pointless story, but what you described, by certain definitions was another form of a "Folly" which is an all too common term in the SE... It certainly would act as a reef for sure. I would definitely check it out at low tide for safety, but any underwater obstruction is better than nothing...
