10 places to surf before you fly
From Barry and the ‘one two Roose crew’, to Swansea and the outstanding natural beauty of the Gower, South Wales has a diverse array of waves, people and places. The waves range from rippable beachies, to long point breaks and a few heavy reefs. The people are generally friendly and range from civil young scholars to deranged cider drinking roid heads.
To surf here you need to be primed and ready for a spot to turn on. In the summer we have painfully long flat spells and in the winter when the surf is pumping due to the shallow, easily cooled Bristol channel the water is freezing. Combine this with huge 12 meter tides which can warp and reduce a 6ft swell to a foot, take off zones that continually move and soul destroying rips, it’s a rough ride. We do get the odd classic day in the summer but generally October through to March is when the dedicated are rewarded with crisp clear mornings and milky glass surf.
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