Liz Clark

Surfer

When Liz Clark was nine, her family spent seven months sailing down Mexico’s Pacific Coast. After returning to land life in San Diego, she dreamed of one day, seeing the world by sailboat. While earning her BA in environmental studies from UC Santa Barbara, she fell in love with surfing. After college, she turned her surf voyaging dream into reality, sailing south from Southern California in 2005 through Central America and west to the Pacific islands. For more than a decade and over 20,000 nautical miles, she kept her nomadic ocean lifestyle going through writing, blogging, photography, representing conscious brands, and earning recognition as a surf adventurer, environmental activist, and captain. In 2018, she released her memoir, Swell: A Sailing Surfer’s Voyage of Awakening, which has since sold more than 35,000 copies. Liz is currently taking a break from sailing to focus on her environmental activism and animal welfare work from her land base in French Polynesia. She is the director of the non-profit organization, A Ti’a Matairea.