Tom Anderson (2)

Anderson hooks up with a old school friend in America and they combine a road trip with surfing all the way up the eastern seaboard of America.

They deliberately time their trip for September, just in the main hurricane season, and start obsessively following the weather reports to see if there are any big hurricanes building. They visit New Orleans and see the devastation that Katrina left and meet with the people who are rebuilding the city and their lives.

There are a couple of non starters in the way of hurricanes, and then, Dean, the big one starts. It builds to a category 5, and the intensity of the storm sends the swell all the way up through Florida to Cape Cod. They start to get some really big day of surfing in.

It does take a while to get to the surfing, but this is a book as much about travel, as it is about surfing. Really enjoyed this, will look out his others.… (meer)

Anderson is a enthusiastic amateur surfer who in this book is discovering and re-discovering the best spots to surf in the UK, and Ireland. He journey for surfing nirvana takes him from the Outer Hebrides, Cornwall, his home patch of Porthcawl, a remote north Wales spot and on the far west coast of Ireland.

It is much a journey of discovery for him to see what the UK has to offer surfers who have been spoilt by overseas waves, as well as a record of memorable surfing days. He writes with eloquence and clarity, and makes the subject accessible and fascinating for non surfers.… (meer)