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On a surprisingly chilly Monday, Black Star surfers Charles and Nick along with a handful of others sampled the liquid gold of Black Mamba point. Surf was slightly overhead in the morning and had increased a few more feet for the evening session. Nick danced around on the beach, his face contorted into a impish grin, and ranted for hours about never leaving Busua, all symptoms of a pitiful condition commonly referred to as Stoke. Doctors speculate that he will recover after a good night’s sleep … unless of course it is still firing in the morning.

Images courtesy Mona Niemeyer

They were six guys that day in April out there in the waves, surfing Balck Mamba Surf Spot. It was exciting because the waves were getting higher and higher and some of them surfed this spot for the first time ever.

While taking the first wave Frankie couldn’t stop jubilating.

We were sitting on the rocks of Black Mamba and could hear him cheering

Also Charles surfed at Black Mamba the first time and handled the situation very well, this time not standing on his head

Hans from Germany had great fun in the waves too.

He could surf for hours, even when lunch was getting cold

Everybody had so much fun and it went on the rest of the day.

In the evening we had great dinner in the Okorye Tree Restaurant. Busua Beach is just an amazing place to be, even when you are not surfing…

Hello everyone!

We haven’t gotten too many shots of Black Mamba, but here is one of me on a mid-June day 2009, just before I moved back to the states (there’s more on Black Star’s Facebook page and I think they will also be on the Black Star web page soon too!)

Here is an old e-mail I just dug up that I wrote to a friend last August, not long after I moved to Busua, about the surf scene in front of the shop:

The island tames the incomming surf, and the sandy-bottom beach is ideal
for smaller waves. Actually, the waves remind me very much of
San Diego beaches. Around the corner to the west, outside of the
little bay, is a wave called Black Mamba. It does not have the buffer
of the island, and it breaks on rocky bottom instead of sand.
It’s a point break that breaks from the west to the east and has a
greater distance that you can cover on the wave. Anyways, my point is
that there is a handfull of people that have ever surfed this wave,
and I surfed it for the first time yesterday, and again this morning.
The wave is phenominal. But it is wearing. The adrenaline rush has
pretty much exhausted me after just a few waves. I’ll spare you the
details of genuine fear.

A bit dramatic? Perhaps. But as July & August are here, and the swells in Ghana are pumping, I am sure that there is some Ghana newbie that is feeling that same way all alone on the coast of Western Ghana. Surfing in Ghana is a rush!

matt