Surfing Life

Cyclonic Dichotomy

“I think this is the biggest natural disaster Mozambique has ever faced. Everything is destroyed. Our priority now is to save human lives.”
Celso Correia, Mozambique’s Minister of Land and Environment.

It’s an uncomfortable truth and one many of us struggle with; while temperate weather is what other people may live for, cyclones (any storm) produce the very thing we as surfers live for — waves.

We are probably the only people on earth who welcome one of our planet’s greatest forces — albeit just for the after effect. We are

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