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Imagine someone coming into your room in the middle of the night, sneaking up nice and close to you with a giant gong and smacking it as hard as they can every 5 - 10 sec. Now allow your room to rotate and twist. Suddenly you have rolled to one side of your bed, and then the other, and then back again, all the while the gong keeps going. It is hot and you are sweating profusely despite having thrown your only sheet to the other side of the bed.
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Frequent blog followers will be privy to our search for a mystical barrelling right hand point break on St Helena Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. When we arrived after 12 days at sea, we almost fell over ourselves getting off the boat, into a rental car, Sitka boards on the roof, Globe sandals on, Livity hats on and driving to the beach.
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The popularity of surfing and surfers has been in flux since the first wave riders experienced the thrill of rushing towards shore, powered by the liquid crashing force of waves. The ancient Polynesians and Hawaiians are heralded as the forefathers of our sport. Early European explorers and discoverers were astonished to see "savage" natives riding broken waves in their canoes or on rough hewn log planks, for no other purpose than recreation. Unfortunately, many of these early explorers were also vehement Christians spreading their versions of the word of God.
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The Ocean Gybe gang spent a little time giving surf lessons to street children and cleaning up the beach at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town. The "Let’s Go Surfing" project is a drop in centre on Saturdays and Sundays for kids to go to the beach, get a free surfing lesson, grab some food to eat, do a beach clean-up and learn about the ocean.
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The OceanGybe will be touring BC school's soon to inform students of their adventures and findings. Their presentations are informative, entertaining and sure to motivate students to get out and see the world while doing what they can to preserve our oceans. See what the OceanGybe have to say about their tour below:
The OceanGybe Youth Awareness Campaign aka School Tour
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The OceanGybe crew is in the Vancouver Sun today! The article talks about the 'Gybe's mission to travel around the world in a sailboat collecting information about beach and water pollution to bring these issues to the forefront of the public eye, all while surfing some of the world's best breaks.
Grab a paper while they're still available!
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OceanGybe has just released their 9th webisode. Click on the second thumbnail here to watch it. Take a minute and learn something!
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On Monday, February 7 the Ocean Gybe crew will be at the Bob Wright Centre For Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UVic to present their research on the pollution in the world's oceans and beaches.
Head to room A104 before 5:30 to get a seat, see you there!
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OceanGybe is having a party! Check out the info on the Facebook event page.
60,000+ km's around the world, plastic awareness and ocean conservation, living a year without plastics and Surfrider keeping our beaches clean...
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