UP AHEAD

From there he moved to the big smoke, to join national travel agency, Thomas Cook. His first experience in dedicated surf tourism came with The Surf Travel Co after spending six years in Sydney, but after his wife Jacquie landed a job with Qantas in Brisbane, the couple moved to the Sunshine Coast and World Surfaris was launched in 1997. Shaun eventually exited the business in 2016, but not after clocking many a nautical mile in the search for perfect waves, and gaining a tonne of insight and experience in the space along the way. After taking a break, Shaun now runs