SURF ATLAS/ EUROPE
El Quemao
🇪🇸 Lanzarote, Spain
'The Canarian Pipeline' — a powerful, hollow left barrel over volcanic reef in the harbour town of La Santa, Lanzarote. Heavy, shallow and localised, El Quemao unloads thick Atlantic tubes onto black lava rock. Not for the faint-hearted.
REGION
Europe
BREAK
Reef Break
LEVEL
Advanced
SEASON
Oct–Mar
BEST SWELL
NW groundswell
BEST WIND
E–SE offshore
WATCH FOR
Shallow lava reef, localism
LIVE REPORT
reading the buoys…
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