Wavelenght - After the Endless Summer II: What happened to the surf spots?

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[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.

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