Take a look and have a listen to Will Hayler's (Co-founder of Ticket to Ride) 2 minute update from the current road trip on the TTRide Costa Rica course which has venutured down in to Costa Rica's deep south and landed up at Pavones, home to one of the world's longest and most fun point break waves.

Surfing and photography have always gone closely hand in hand, as a hugely aspirational sport, it is one that transgresses very well into still imagery. With the development of modern camera's and digital photography there are more surf photo's than ever before, and as a result photographers need to push the boundaries even harder to stand above the rest.

These images were sent to us over the weekend, and I was truly blown away by them. They are photo's of the waves themselves, rather than of people surfing them, and can you think of another sport when the playing arena itself creates such a varied and impressive platform for imagery?

These photo's were taken by American photographer Clark Little, and they are truly breathtaking. You can only imagine the positions that he had to get himself into to take the shots, making sure that he was right in the impact zone in order to get the most powerful images, and you can be assured that he would have taken a handful of heavy beatings in order to capture these shots. But when you leave the water with these in your camera, surely it is all worth it!

I have been out in South Africa for 10 days and already British winter is a distant memory.

Before heading over to see trip 2 in Ballito, Lottie and I decided to head down to Jeffreys Bay for a 5 day holiday.

Jeffreys Bay is famous for having one of the world’s best waves, a long right hand point break that races down the line. On top of this, there is the African Perfection Guest house, which has to be one of favourite places to stay when we visit South Africa.

Even though we could have done with a little more swell to really get Jeffreys firing, there was no shortage of sun for lazy days on the beach, watching dolphins cruising up and down the point. The food in South Africa never disappoints (Ostritch Steak being a personal favourite) and the people are always so welcoming. So all in all a perfect wind down, ready for the adventures that lie ahead.

Arriving in Durban, we were straight over to the ABSA Stadium to watch the Natal Sharks take on the Queensland Reds, after a thrilling display of exciting Super 14 Rugby, the Sharks came out on top and came away with an epic win (30-28).

Getting to see Ticket to Ride surf groups at the final stage of the Ticket to Ride South Africa course is always a pleasure, lots of smiling faces, joking and laughing as people recount on where they have been and what they have achieved. A trip to the famous flowrider (standing wave) is always a fun way to round off the 10 week course and everyone took it on with a healthy mix of bravery and style.

The major difference with this Ticket to Ride Course is that only 6 of the group are going home, the other 12 are packing their bags and heading on up the coast with us to Mozambique.

This will be the third time we have ventured up into Mozambique (the second with Riders) and a trip that I have been looking forward to for the best part of 2 years.

We have traded in the Vans for 4x4’s to tackled the sandy roads up in Mozambique, we will be a group of 17 (12 Riders, 2 Trip Leaders and 2 Pro Surfers).

The bags are packed, all the equipment has been checked.

Ticket to Ride Mozambique is ON!

Will