Apparently there has been tidal bore river surfing in China a thousand years ago.

Nik Zanella has spent years deciphering ancient Chinese poems and texts to piece together a past-time that thrived in the Far East’s Song Dynasty, from 960 to 1279. Early surfers would ride the country’s Qiantang river as part of a ritual to help appease the God of the Tide (or, the Dragon King) – and for the entertainment of the Emperor.

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414 million pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean

Reef wipeout: surfers fight China-linked mega resort in Fiji

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Hughes/Schweizer 300C South Bay Coastal Flight

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Biarritz Set to Host 2019 ISA World Longboard Championship
from May 26 – June 2.

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Report: Starvation is reason for grey whale deaths in Bay Area

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Sunspel Organic Vintage Stripe T-shirt

Which came first: society or a fear of god?

The first cocktail book by an African American bartender in more than a century

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Research reveals Coca Cola and PepsiCo responsible for 25% of packaging pollution found on UK beaches

The Slippery Slopes of the World Sand Shortage

Surf producer Tony Hilder passed

After music he later got involved with mental mazes, more ominous than the darkest Surf instrumental.

Offset ukuleles

Microplastics are raining down from the sky

A Vigorous Devourer of Greenhouse Gas Is Living Beneath Our Feet

The Last Battle of the Cree Nation

Photographer Dick Hoole recalls a time when Burleigh Heads was surfing’s ‘centre of the universe’

Voice for the Ocean

Scott Walker BBC Documentary 1995

‘Defending our existence’: Colombian tribe stands in way of oil exploration

Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia

Apocaloha! Shirt

Thanks to Daena on Twitter I became aware of the New York Times obituary for late Mike Doyle.

The natural world can help save us from climate catastrophe

How to Experience Tiki Cuture in San Francisco

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

exhibition, May 5, 2019 – October 27, 2019 

Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change

“Isolated” Follows Surfers As They Encounter Untold Human Rights Atrocities In West Papua

Surfers get “Isolated” in West Papua

‘It opened my eyes’: The Indonesian woman fighting for West Papuan independence

The Mysterious Menehune of Hawai’i

Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5tn a year, researchers find

Going Native: 1890

The Chinese were white – until white men called them yellow

‘We cannot swim, we cannot eat’: Solomon Islands struggle with nation’s worst oil spill

We Grew Up in Case Study House #22

Marika Rökk, Finale “Ich warte auf Dich”