Beach Grit

5 days ago | beachgrit.com | Derek Rielly

"Had to get rushed to the ER and ended up in thehospital for 4 days hooked up to a machine to suck the air out ofmy chest."The former boogieboarder turned hipster-freesurfingnomad god, Dion Agius, a staple in Kai Neville’s films ofthe 2010s if you’ll remember, has written ofhis recent near-death experience from a hospital bed inSwitzerland. Collapsed lung, emergency surgery, four days in hozzy.

5 days ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

Cool business in the desert. It is Coachella week, in Southern California. The time of year when an assortment of celebrities and super musicfans flock to the desert in wide-brimmed hats to celebratethemselves. This is weekend twoand Lady Gaga, Missy Elliott, Three 6 Mafia, The Prodigy, LolaYoung and many more will be performing on multiple stages. As fate would have it, surf legend Bruce Irons will beperforming too and very nearby.

5 days ago | beachgrit.com | Derek Rielly

"Mick Fanning's house balances elegance withexcess, often hinting at the underlying tragedy of unattainabledreams."If you ever lived on the southern end of the Gold Coastbefore the big developers moved in and prices went through the sky,two mill and up for a box at Rainbow Bay, you’d realise theabsurdity of a buyer throwing almost twenty mill at a house acrossthe road from noisy ol’ Coolangatta airport. But here we are, Australia, the lucky country.

6 days ago | beachgrit.com | Chas Smith

"It is exceptionally tone deaf to approve anenormous surf park in Washington City."Trouble is brewing, again between surfers andeveryday folk who like to drink water. But who could forget thelast major conflict betwixt the two when it reared its head ingreater Palm Springs after residents became enraged at a plannedwave tank in the desert town. Coral Mountain was supposed to be anice community with a hotel, wellness spa and million dollar homesall around a Kelly Slater tank.

1 week ago | beachgrit.com | Derek Rielly

Want to own the best wave in Western Australia,maybe lock it up for your own pleasures? If you surf, you know Gnaraloo. If you’re alittle older you’ll remember Jack McCoy’s Billabong Challenges,held there in 95 and 96, the world’s best surfers at one of theworld’s best waves, Kelly Slater, Machado, Sunny, Occ. And, if you grew up in the relatively waveless city of Perth,1100 clicks south, it was the wave you dreamed about as the coldwinds of winter came.