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Alex Gray got DM’d the perfect right

Insta-Barrels… sounds lovely, don’t it? It’s reminiscent of one of those magic growing creatures that start off small until you add water and watch them bloom into something more, except this time it’s a perfect right hand tunnel and water’s already included. Alex got a DM from a kind man offering him room and board next time the waves picked up, Mr Gray took him up on it and was not disappointed. It’s a funny world we live in, I assume Instagram models DM’s are filled with phone numbers and the occasional male appendage. And professional barrel hunters like Alex, get invited to surf perfect waves with nobody out… not to say that social media is King but it sure is something.

cinema // Mar 8, 2016
Words by stab
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Insta-Barrels… sounds lovely, don’t it? It’s reminiscent of one of those magic growing creatures that start off small until you add water and watch them bloom into something more, except this time it’s a perfect right hand tunnel and water’s already included. Alex got a DM from a kind man offering him room and board next time the waves picked up, Mr Gray took him up on it and was not disappointed. It’s a funny world we live in, I assume Instagram models DM’s are filled with phone numbers and the occasional male appendage. And professional barrel hunters like Alex, get invited to surf perfect waves with nobody out… not to say that social media is King but it sure is something.

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