I’d never been on a surf trip before, yet here I was at the airport about to travel to Morocco with three women I’d never met before.

We met on the Surf Senioritas Facebook Group, planned our getaway online and before we knew it were setting off for the African coast.

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I was incredibly apprehensive about spending a week with people I didn’t know. But it was thanks to our mutual love of surfing that we met, became friends and had a truly awesome adventure.

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