Leg 2 - South West France

After enjoying a taste of real France up in the rural north, we drove down the coast to the main attraction for surfers, Hossegor, on the south west coast where the worlds best beach breaks are found. Water was warmer down here and the days hot, it still chilled off at night, especially when camping and doing dawnies in wet wetties each morning! 1. Bourdaines, Hossegor. Had just come in from surfing this break, was pretty big and pretty epic. This was day 4 of the Quicksilver Pro. 2& 3 . St Jean. Checked out some reefs in an area called St Jean du Luz which is 30 minutes south of Hossegor. Found this uncrowded bay with awesome lefts and rights breaking over reef, great surf. 5 & 6. Tom Curren! On the huge day, we went searching and checked Lafatenia again as its sheltered from the swell a little. 4 times world champ and legend of surfing Tom Curren pulled up in the car park next to us and paddled out.

7 & 8. La Piste, Capbreton. Capbreton is a little town next to Hossegor and has some awesome beach breaks. This break is called La Piste and has old bunkers from the WW2 in the shore break.