Pepe Castillo Castro was a visionary. He wanted to make money with the surfers. What he didn’t foresee was that the others also liked the idea. And with that the war began
It was the summer of 2006 when the surfers came. They searched the coast of Mexico for waves that no one had ever ridden before. She ended up in Barra de la Cruz in the state of Oaxaca, and paradise opened up before her eyes: a huge, untouched beach with fine sand, and from the distance a mighty wave rolled in, the kind you would call “perfect”. calls. Roy Powers, a professional surfer from Hawaii, later recalled in a video how he first saw the beach. He had ridden hundreds of waves, but this one made him spontaneously laugh: “That damn wave, it was so good. I asked myself: Is it real?”
It was her.
The surfers had been looking for the venue for one of the most famous surfing competitions in the world, the “Rip Curl Search”. They had found him.
And the fate of the village was forever shaped.