When I first arrived at Soup Bowl, Barbados, it was love at first sight.

It was the world as I might’ve drawn it in the back of my Maths book in primary school when I was a surf-crazed kid with skinny legs and sun-bleached blond hair. This amazing wave is one of many on this tiny island but it is Soup Bowl that attracts surfers from all over the world. Framing the break are Bathsheba’s colossal Lord of the Rings rock formations, green-topped and mushroom-shaped, more extravagant than anything I ever sketched.

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