THE OVERHEAD STANDING WAVE THAT BREAKS, IN THE MIGHTY ZAMBEZI IS NO SECRET. DISCOVERED BY KAYKERS OVER 20 YAERS AGO, MORE THAN A FEW SURFERS HAVE MADE THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE KALAHARI TO EXPLORE ITS QUIRKY WAVES TIMELESS CURVES. BUT NOW THANKS TO A LARGELY ILL-CONSIDERED HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME, AFRICA’S WEIRDEST WAVE MAY SOON BE NO MORE My phone pings near the dregs of my second beer at Dropkick Murphy. New message from my connection Sean Edington, a river guide on the Zambezi. “It’s just started. You coming?” And there was a picture, bad angle, but you could see the lip and the curl of the wave and that was enough. The wave normally only lasts a week.
Time starts now.
Things to organise: budgets, surfers, vehicle, passports, cameras, video,…