"Okay, hi I'm Grant Twiggy Baker and this is Spot Check for Skeleton Bay in Namibia. This first photo pretty much sums up what Skeleton Bay is like. It looks like the end section of the wave..." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

Cheyne Cottrell. "Fantastic water shot by Alan Van Gysen or AVG. Probably one of our best photographers to ever come out of South Africa. Skeleton Bay is a really difficult place to get water shots because the wave is so long." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"Typically this is the shot that you see when you're standing on the beach or walking back after a wave. Just one after the next of these perfect, four-foot drainers running down the point." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"Namibia is a very hostile environment. It's basically just a desert country and when you're moving around, basically you're just using these types of roads and seeing this type of scenery for the entire time." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"Simon Fish is one of the top young shapers in the country -- in South Africa -- and he makes all my boards. And it's good to see him out of the shaping bay and in the barrel." Photo: Greg Ewing

"Namibia is one of the most diverse and naturally beautiful countries that I've ever been to. Even though it's a desert country there's so much to see and so many amazing...spectacular wildlife." MORE IN AUDIO. Photos: Alan Van Gysen, Greg Ewing

"You start off running and then mid-day you're kind of jogging and by the end of the day you're dragging your weary body to the top of the point. But it's impossible to stop doing it when the waves are good." Photo: Greg Ewing

"This is an amazing shot. I think the photographers all try to get this image of two and hopefully three guys in the barrel. And you can really see the intensity of the wave here." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

"The backwash is ever-present throughout the day on every swell and it's just another kind of freaky phenomenon of this wave. And it can just sneak up on you and buck you off on any wave." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

Adin Jones. "This is a cool shot because it kind of shows how much work it is to get in and get out of the barrel here. The wave looks so perfect on video and in photographs, but in fact it's almost an impossible tube to ride." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"Look, Namibia is probably one of the most hostile environments on earth. I think Bear Grylls did a mission out here and just got totally, you know, annihilated. It's windy, it's cold, it's sharky." MORE IN AUDIO. Photos: Alan Van Gysen, Greg Ewing

"This is another great water shot from Alan Van Gysen. This time shooting a regular-footer from Cape Town, Dave Richards. There's a bit of argument about which style is better suited to riding the barrel at Skeleton Bay." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

Dan Redman. "Look, it's also the kind of wave that you never want to stall on. I think he made a little error there by throwing in a stall. You just want to keep going and keep going and keep going. A lot of the footage you see from it, you think the guy is ahead of the barrel most of the way, but when you're in the pocket it feels like you're so deep because it's so round and the wall is so far ahead of you..." MORE IN AUDIO. Sequence: Greg Ewing

"There's the sand dunes. I don't think that's near to the wave, but obviously Alan knows a good photo opportunity when he sees one. One area of Namibia has sand dunes that go directly into the sea and I believe that's the only place in the world that has that." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"Another beautiful shot just showing how perfect the wave can be and how hollow and round it is. And it's such a difficult wave to get to. It's a 36-hour drive up from Cape Town." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

Donovan Zoetmulder. "The drop is all-important at this wave. We've had some of the top surfers from South Africa go there and not make a takeoff for two days. And this can happen." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

"That looks like one of the local guide's cars. I'm not sure who that is. It could be Torsten. Torsten is pretty much the local guy that surfs best out there." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan Van Gysen

Twiggy. "Greg and I were two of the first guys to start surfing this wave and for the first five waves we pretty much surfed it alone as one or two of the local guys. I was very fortunate to meet a local guy in a bar in South Africa who told me about this mythical wave..." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Anthony Fox

"Bring a lot of boards. I've never seen a wave that breaks more boards than Skeleton Bay. You can see those boards are stickered up, looks like a bunch of pro boards there. If you're gonna bring a lightweight 6'0" or 5'10" normal shortboard, you're gonna break it first wave and all the rest of yours every next wave." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

"Amazing photographs here just showing the hostile environment of Namibia. There's a dead seal on the beach every fifty meters, some of them with huge shark bites out of them. Truly disconcerting..." MORE IN AUDIO. Photos: Greg Ewing, Alan Van Gysen

"Another beautiful water shot from AVG. Kinda showing how far ahead that barrel is breaking from where you'd be sitting in the barrel -- but, you're not actually in the barrel there. If someone was looking from the beach, half your body and the nose of your board would be out of the barrel." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan van Gysen

"It is so shallow right there where the lip's landing. You cannot imagine. It's anything from ankle- to knee-deep where the lip actually lands. Every time you wipe out, you get torpedoed down the line with the foamball." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

"There we go: the seal colony. That seal colony is probably 50,000-strong and it's two kilometers from the wave. So let's think how many sharks are feeding off that bunch of...that smorgasbord right there." Photo: Alan van Gysen

"I was there when Dane [Staples] was there and he actually rode this wave really well. And that's just some beautiful positioning. I mean, you can see how tight and small the barrel is in there. When he took off on that wave it would've looked six feet." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing

"Showing you what Namibia is all about. That's how the people live. You can see the points in the background. Trust me when I say Skeleton Bay is not the only point there. It would be great to see guys actually go out and discover what else is out there." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan van Gysen

"This way you can really see how the lines stack up as they come into the bay. It almost looks like this is a shorter-period swell, but unfortunately, short period swells do not get into this wave -- or don't get into Namibia at all. You're looking for massive, long-period groundswells coming out of the Roaring Forties." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan van Gysen

"Finally a turn. Cheyne [Cottrell], he's a really good surfer, so he's doing a turn, but it looks like it's on the closeout section of the wave. You're not going to do a turn at Skeleton Bay and make the wave." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Alan van Gysen

"Yeah, here's Simon Fish again. He looks like he's exhausted. It's backlighting so that looks like a bit of afternoon stuff. Probably late in the afternoon as the sun is starting to go down. And he's just exhausted, but you can almost see the smile on his face." MORE IN AUDIO. Photo: Greg Ewing