Skateboarding
The legend is real – the Blu Enigma in photos!
Look what Hallford, McClain, Walsh, Simões and Haslam discovered on the tiny Greek island of Andros!
When you approach it from the water, the island of Andros in the Greek Cyclades is quite an unassuming sight. Peaceful, and kind of timeless.
But hidden back there somewhere, so we were told, was a hotel with a bowl built into the hillside called the Blu Enigma.
Our merry band of skate adventurers from England, Ireland, Portugal, Canada and the USA were finally bearing down on what at times had seemed like a chimera, which we would never actually grace with urethane.
When we finally pulled the vans into the compound, a kind of madness swept over us. We were here. The bowl was both better looking and way gnarlier than we had imagined, and there was an extra revelation.
Higher up the mountain, overlooking the bay was a hand-made concrete skatepark built by Nikos and his crew from the forms of their old BMX trails.
Just as the Blu Enigma bowl proved unique, so too were the Gratitude Trails; with this squad and a 'when are we all going to be here again?' attitude prevailing, you can believe the sessions were sparked and ran on late into the night, every night.
Brad McClain, Keith Walsh, Alex Hallford, Chris Haslam and Red Bull Skate Arcade 2015 winner Jorge Simões came to bear witness and put some first licks down on all that Nikos has built in hope of bringing some radness to his island.
But you can see all of that action on Monday right here, and follow the search and destroy mission to get this far by hitting the link below; for now, however, here are some of Sam McGuire's sublime stills from this undiscovered European skate Eden.
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Brad McClain - Nosegrind
© Sam McGuire
Hello, sailor!
© Sam McGuire
Alex Hallford - Sweeper
© Sam McGuire
Chris Haslam in the freshwater mountain pool
© Sam McGuire