Clean Water, Filthy Tubes

Some 10,158 kilometres (6,312 miles) separate Pascuales and Cloudbreak, though from the water they could pass as distant cousins.

Before the CT season, premium bottle brand PARGO flew Al Cleland Jnr and his best friend, Rolando Stanley (aka EDM Girl), to Fiji for a campaign shoot. It was their first visit, and the trip had been booked six weeks in advance (i.e. no strike mission).

As fate would have it, they absolutely brained it. “There were crews flying in from all over to strike it, and we were just there helping out and got lucky, I guess,” reports co-founder Dylan Rowe, who’s pretty handy in the juice himself.

The helping-out part was not insignificant. Alongside the surf mission, PARGO distributed 200 water-filtration systems across three villages, giving 1500 locals much-needed access to clean drinking water.

Good stuff.