Craig Jarvis’ surfing travels have taken him to many great surf destinations, and a great many beds (the hospital kind – don’t get excited). He caught malaria whilst surfing off the jungles of Java, and his catalogue of mishaps include three tropical diseases unidentified by the Tropical Disease Centre in London, a broken arm, a broken elbow, four bouts of life-threatening dysentery, a torn groin whilst surfing in Ireland, a wasting disease contracted in Chile and a serious case of boils that attached themselves to him somewhere in Indonesia.

Among his journalistic endeavours, he has been Field Editor of The Surfer’s Path, UK, and editor of Zigzag, South Africa. His favourite story as a freelance contributor was the one published in the Australian surf magazine Tracks that was devoted to an oversexed male dolphin and his confused interaction with surfers.

He currently lives in a house with a sea view over a nice wave near Cape Town. Mostly his days consist of walking his three surf hounds on the beach, reading, writing, going surfing, and in the evenings sitting watching surfers after pouring himself a stiff Scotch. It’s a tough life, but someone has to live it.