A new awakening of Skeleton Bay
With a solid Basque contingent present at "the best wave in the world" and competing in the first championship ever held there
Skeleton Bay broke again and was truly epic, just the right size, with some solid sets and, of course, endless tubes.
A strong contingent of Basques, with Adur and Iker Amatriain and Nadia Erostarbe together with a strong group of South Africans have been enjoying themselves.
In the meantime, a tournament was launched, the first in the history of the wave, the Skaleton Bay Shootout, which will award 30.000 Namibian dollars (1700 USD) to the person who surfs the best wave.
Nadia started off very well:
But there were several other good waves, below are some of them:
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