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SURFER: How did this trip come about and how long did you stay over there?
Elina: I was planning to go to Morocco, and I didn’t have much of a plan except for surfing, taking pictures, and filming. I knew waves were going to be firing. When I told Simon about my idea, he decided to tag along. Just like that, we ended up going together, and I filmed the entire trip. Initially, we were aiming to stay in Morocco for two weeks, but by the end of it, the forecast showed a good swell coming, so we didn’t have to think twice and decided to stay longer. In the end, we built quite a team, were occupied with discovering unseen places between swells, and spent a month there. 

SURFER: What kind of cameras were you using Elina? And what kind of boards did you bring Simon?
Elina:  I had with me my Sony a6500 for filming, Traveler Handy cam for some B-roll and two analog cameras for taking pictures - Minolta x-700, and Canon Prima super 120.
Simon: I was riding a couple Chilli surfboards, mainly a bladed pretty thin 5’10  shorty and a 6’0 faded on the bigger days.

SURFER:Looks like you scored some proper swell, was it hard to know where to go surf? Did you two just wing it or did you have some local friends help tune you into the right spots?
Most of the days a short drive along the coast made it clear to us where we should paddle out, a couple of our local friends Mohamed and Salah clued us in on when to be in certain places but we also found a couple waves we ended up surfin by just pulling off along the cliff side and looking around the corner. You can imagine the excitement when we stumbled upon one of the waves we surfed almost the whole trip.

SURFER:The coffee truck looked like quite the come up, where can we find Mohammed?
Elina: Mohamed is a legend, he would show up in the middle of nowhere where I would be filming and just hang with me and sometimes he would bring me a snack and a shot of espresso. You can find him at Tamri beach, probably wherever the waves are pumping! 

SURFER:From a cultural perspective, what about Morocco left the biggest impact?
For us the trip felt like a true adventure from start to finish, it was humbling to be welcomed by local people who shared food, tea, and customs. Even with the somewhat overwhelming amount of surf tourism in Morocco many people there maintain their hospitality and acceptance of outsiders who come with respect and wish to tread lightly. We enjoyed some of our favorite meals in some time, a lot of them eaten on the street, and tried our best to go to the most local places we could find to see and appreciate how Moroccans live.