Wavelenght - After the Endless Summer II: What happened to the surf spots?
[We’re excited to be showing The Endless Summer II at the Wavelength drive-in cinema, overlooking Watergate Bay, this Saturday (the 22nd of August.) Get your tickets here.]
In late 1992, Pat O’Connell, Robert ‘Wingnut’ Weaver and Bruce Brown set off around the world for the long-awaited sequel to the 60s smash The Endless Summer.
The plan was to serve up an updated but equally joyous version of the Sport of Kings; featuring different locations, different styles of surfing and the icons of the day.
Before the journey kicked off in earnest, the film pays a visit to a few surfing oddities, including a flow-rider in Texas (still home to arguably the best non-ocean wave on earth) which you’ll be glad to know is still going strong and a chop-battered island in Alaska, which thanks to wetsuit-tech now boasts a thriving surf community.