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    ONE NIGHT IN SUVA

    Mar 30, 2020 5 minutes
    By Movan De Wall

    I think many surf stories start with a girl or end with a girl. And so it was that I left Durban’s Louis Botha Airport in 1998 for Los Angeles, desperately needing a change of scenery after my girlfriend changed her’s.

    California is such a good place to mend a 22-year-old broken heart. All the surf mags in the world cannot describe the surf opportunities on its coast, the Saffa accent is a chick magnet and Mexican beer just makes sense. Good medicine all around – overdoses of it, in fact.

    I was lucky enough to be able to help out at Laguna Surf & Sport, which is situated on the Pacific Coast Highway just one street east from the sea shore,

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