Favorite surf break /
Cañon, San Cristobal, Galapagos
Board /
Rusty ‘what’ 5’10
Sponsors /
Patagonia, Db Journey, GoPro
Biggest Achievement /
Top 30 on WQS 2018, World Surfing Reserve from Snapper Rocks to Burleigh
Hobbies /
Environmental Activism, Producing, Writing, Acting, social media.
Pacha Lina Luque Light is an Ecuadorian born, Australian-raised surfer and activist. Surfing began in the wild breaks of Iluka in northern NSW at 10 years old after raising money to buy her first board which was gifted but Laura Enever.
Choosing purpose before profit and cooperation before competition, at the age of 19, she took a leap of faith from the path of sponsored competitive surfing to prioritise caring for Mother ocean. Her story-telling projects include; 'Women of the Sea', an exploration of matriarchal ocean-based lifestyle hoping to provide insight and inspiration to the radical shift we need to heal the earth and our connection to it. Her involvement in environmental advocacy began from her birth (in an ecology centre in the Ecuadorean Andes) and advocates for Australian and global organisations from protecting World Surfing Reserves to the Surfrider Foundation and to the Sloth Club in Japan. Now she’s exploring her connection to her birth country of Ecuador and finding ways to share the joys of surfing with the next generation of women in Ecuador.