Review: The Best Travel Backpacks for Women

As surfer girls with an adventurous spirit, we often find ourselves travelling further afield in the search of the perfect wave. With surfboard in tow, packing light is often essential to keep down costs. But when it comes to travel bags, it’s often a bit of a minefield. Our guest writer and Editor, Molly Blair, has you covered. She’s been reviewing some of the best, female specific, travel backpacks…

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Daughters of the Sea
The Blue Earth Summit 2023: A Recap

Here’s a roundup of all the talks and workshops that inspired us from the Blue Earth Summit 2023. Our Editor and Guest Writer, Molly, attended the summit and brings you - the subscribers and readers of DOTS - the key takeaways. As surfers and ocean lovers, she explains why you should give a damn…

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Meet Surf Photographer Bella Rose Bunce

Bella is someone we’ve followed for some time now. You might’ve clocked her surfing in the pages of Issue #001 or seen her incredible image on the first page of Issue #002 (below). Her water photography captures some of the best surfers in the South West and beyond. We’ve invited her to feature as a guest blogger, to show us behind the scenes of a cold water shoot in December…

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Laura Truelove
Say Hello to the Lady Logger…

On South Wales’ Gower Peninsula you’ll find Josh Hocking, Founder of Shocking Surfboards, who crafts some of the best longboards in the UK. One of his recent models - the Lady Logger - has caught our eye.

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Review: Ryde Change Robe

Getting out of the water after a mid-winter session is possibly the hardest thing about surfing or swimming in a cold climate. And, if where you surf is anywhere like where we are in Wales, you’ll no doubt be changing in a car park or lay-by, in the wind and rain.

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Laura Truelove
The Ocean Photographers of Wales

As Wales enters a national “firebreak” lockdown - this time just for two weeks - we are once again being asked to stay home. Many of us sea lovers from all around the country will be landlocked and missing being in and around the water. We hope this feature with some of our favourite ocean photographers provides you with a bit of a fix until we can be reunited with the ocean!

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The Ocean Poets

This #LockdownSeries feature requires no introduction - just a disclaimer: What you’re about to read will make you miss the water. And so, without any explanation or faff, we present to you: The Ocean Poets…

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The Shift: A First Wave

Second up in our #LockdownSeries is a sneak peek into Leah Michael’s diary during the summer she spent in a Portuguese surf camp learning how to surf. She shares the struggles of catching her first wave - a feeling we know too well - and the internal doubts that come along with it…

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