The fishing village of Mundaka, very well known as one of the best surf spots in Europe,
faces a terrible fate with the disapearance of its famous wave and the cancellation of
the Billabong World Tour competition in Mundaka in 2005 -
The Sunday Herald on line reports this in August 7 2005:
The loss of Europe’s leading surf wave in Mundaka, a tiny Basque village of fewer
than 2000 inhabitants, and the subsequent cancellation of a World Championship Tour(WCT)
event has prompted anger from locals and surfers who remain perplexed about how a shipyard’s
massive sand dredging works have affected the Urdaibai reserve.
Until now Mundaka, northeast of Bilbao, was one of the world’s 10 best surf spots, famous
for the powerful and up to 200 feet long tunnel wave which broke at the mouth of the
Guernica Estuary, the gateway to the Unesco-declared Urdaibai biosphere reserve......