'If you can't rock and roll, don't f#cken forecast the weather.'

Before packing for Nazare.

It's an issue with echoes of the recent Fight for the Bight: a foreign company extracting domestic resources and upsetting locals in the process.

An excerpt from Jack McCoy and Mike Ritter's upcoming book.

A bluebird day at Sunset, enjoyable mid-range waves, and a drone doing its best to transport me there.