beachgrit.com - How a surfer inspired The Endless Sumer
Dicky Metz is the Laguna surfer who inspired the groundbreaking surf movie.
The Endless Summer, the 1966 Bruce Brown masterpiece which captured the very best of the surf travel life. Mike Hynson and Robert August, flying here, motoring there in search of the perfect wave until they stumbled upon it in Cape St. Francis, South Africa.
Iconic.
But did you know that an American man had surfed the break years before Brown and crew’s indelible discovery?