The Desert Hilton | Billabong Adventure Division

“It’s like nowhere else I’ve ever been in my life. When you wake up in the morning all you can think about about surfing, and nature, and trying not to kick your toes on rocks.” - Laura Enever
The mythos of heading into the Australian desert to find waves has been burned into the collective consciousness of surfers for generations. Images of Occy threading crystal pits in Green Iguana, or sharks cruising by Shane Dorian surfing a bombie during the Billabong Challenge are two images that spring to mind.
During a recent Adventure Division trip, Occy and Shane took a new generation of crew back to the Desert Hilton, hunting swells and experience beyond the everyday grind. The faces might have changed but the results are timeless - miles of driving rewarded with heaving barrels over urchin-infested reef.
Join Occy, Shane Dorian, Jack Robinson, Laura Enever, Shaun Manners, & Kai Hing as they head North by Northwest for one iconic trip. This is, Desert Hilton.
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[@NicholasColasanto-id2jp]

One of the best surf vids I have ever seen. The vibe man...

[@daanmulder9994]

You should check the video of Mason Ho and Mick Fanning going to some cold place

[@NicholasColasanto-id2jp]

@@daanmulder9994 yeah I love that one too and the Burger in Paradise stuff!

[@boobtubereborn]

@Archie Warneford yeh Gabby can't barrelled at all!

[@paulhetherington3854]

And only, AUS, are allowed out there? You seem, and not, understand?

[@iyurtygaming8588]

Occy never worked an 8 hr day before...what a legend

[@KristoferCarrison]

Occy stubbing his toe was gold

[@fboness368]

Occy is still one of the best personalities in surfing!

[@laniakea777]

Camping and Surfing is Sublime. Waking up to epic waves and later campfire chilling. No better way to go Surfing for me.

[@weareShop]

What a legend! What a cast! Love it.

[@surf-pixels]

So sick! Bring back the Billabong challenge! With the OG cast!

[@watergraffiti]

just watched this again, man such a good capture of the north west, beautiful.

[@tom7865]

Radical, all-star cast too! Occy check your maths hahha

[@niggananny]

Occy shredding like a grom wc . All these surfers made an epic montage. Great production team !! My fav surf film in ages!!

[@rickyguevarra381]

Best barrel riding I’ve seen. Didn’t think he’d come out thought he’d wiped out already lol. Jack killed that wave 👏👏🌊👏

[@keithcurtain6632]

100% enjoyed this. Jack Robbo 9hrs straight... 🙌

[@seagrey75]

Watching from London.... It's like watching a dream...

[@yh-yd8ku]

Occy you are my forever hero

[@belletollz]

Those waves were insane, the first one jack was on was like a freight train. Great to see occy doing his power moves too, and that classic smile while paddling by.

[@thecitizenjoan]

This was so beautiful. Shaun Manners charges so hard but is one the most genuine humble people you’ll ever meet. One of my favorite surfers for sure. Everyone in this really, Kai, Jack, Occy all of them charge so hard. 😍

[@roscoedolittle5975]

Very well put together. I can feel the stoak!!

[@danhxxx7559]

That was epic, more like this please ! Occy and Shane still ripping so hard after all these years, great to see.

[@billabong]

🙌

[@finsout]

Cant wait to see the next chapter!

[@deldridg]

Awesome - would've liked to have seen more of Laura's work. Ours is a bloody excellent continent. Thanks for the vid, great vibe, footage, editing etc. - makes me want to head for the surf. Cheers from Sydney - Dave

[@watergraffiti]

Well done billabong and Occy, you did i real good job on this one with the camera angles and the vibe and music, really understood the place. Thanks!

[@justinin6165]

Insanely beautiful

[@whitecloud3356]

Absolutely 💯 percent ✨️ love this video complete deja vu ❤ respect 🙏

[@TheNAObey]

SO SICK!

[@frankling9840]

Props to the chick for paddling out, they were heaving monsters made easy by world class rippers.

[@xavierlazari1539]

absolute killing it

[@raddeal1]

Reminds me of a 90s classic

[@rodrigodelallata7140]

awesome video. surfs up

[@L.iamCarroll]

Did Shaun Manners manage to steal the Gnarloo thunder from Occ, Shaneoh and Robbo? I think so baby. Faaarrkkkk

[@LordFlashheart1]

Occy's counting is pretty epic haha

[@clarkewi]

Phenomenal surfing.

[@clarkewi]

Laura Enever - my dream "Hell-woman"

[@blakefaz2557]

4:44 that carve, occy is still rippin

[@austinirwin2868]

That's amazin'

[@buzzbabyjesus]

If anyone can give you pointers on Pipe, it's JOB. Stoked!!

[@WillPage]

Nice countin' Oc.

[@reginaldinoenchillada3513]

Real solid quality swell. The star of the show. Ya occy is a legend, Shane Dorian(?), nice2 have some girls in the squad but the main ingredient is surf.

[@cnreynolds1992]

Just what surfings all about

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

so good..

[@ivanlabuschagne8324]

Salaam!!!! Shokran♥️♥️♥️

[@TheBearStudios]

VERY ....Sons Of Fun .... FAB

[@felipegrille8082]

reeeeep it occy!!!!!!

[@cisco6926]

Winner winner chicken dinner great surf flick!

[@billabong]

glad ya dig 🤙

[@Johnhealey-]

Sick...

[@moodjibra3677]

Awesome like the bunyip dreaming days

[@davewalls7362]

moodj ibra shut up you white dick

[@jac9963]

It just smokes like that non-stop like that over there, in the Western and Southern deserts, a massive amount of coastline. Australia is an absolutely massive land. A continent.

[@TheToddIrvine]

not true its usually shit

[@rayvelasco2059]

Crazy tube time ¿ Most Excellent ¿

[@afonsobandhold3867]

I fucken loled hard with the commentary and the shot 2:18 ahah Sick video, great surfing with lauguhing in between!

[@AndrewCooperr]

That wave reminds me of a long Pipeline wave!

[@briandemirjian1335]

West Aus might be a future adventure after al those amazing lefts

[@upsidedahead]

Occy still a master of the math game

[@timmytwotone99]

Great vid. Nice touch with Warumpi Band at 3:40

[@captieye]

classic! one of my favorite bands and im in nyc from FL. so stoked that surf vids still play fitting music.

[@sunovasurfboardsdean5178]

yeah be good if they gave credit..

[@xwhite2020]

And the occy toe stub. Green Iguana style.

[@tomkraushaar4220]

the best moment is toward the end when Occy stubbed his toe!

[@bodhitree33]

7:10 is me when I'm too fried to count.

[@sV3Z1]

occy still rips

[@jeffersondossantosferreira166]

🌊🙌🌊

[@justinin6165]

That’s it I’m driving from Melbourne, into the desert

[@misterlarge76]

Warumpi Band - fuck yeah!

[@markkelly1775]

surfed with mark once . fine surfer

[@goodvibes0101]

Lol we lived in the cave and would drive up to tombstones and surf it by ourselves 😁 one day was so perfect a direction the wave was make-able from the section further up the reef maybe 50 meters perhaps more you would set the high line like the bluff and just hold on right through the tombstone then work the face 😈

[@MrTobinite]

Imagine getting 25 filthy ones 7:23. What a session

[@Scotty_P]

Pretty harsh only showing Laura stacking it. She musta caught a few of those! Jack is a mad man!!!

[@MrOhnouhoh]

Yeah I literally thought the same! Bombs or not the chick must of caught a few in 8 (sorry Occ) hours, She fucking charges! It's not like she's a model/surfer, she's towed shippies...

[@JeremiahAlphonsus]

I found it most refreshing NOT to be excessively exposed to the inferiority of female surfing.

[@pedrotizzot7097]

Jeremiah Alphonsus Amen

[@peterquibell9773]

Both your names says it all.

[@Shantimors]

@@JeremiahAlphonsus women surf different from men as their musculature and centre of gravity is different, it's different not inferior. Watch Sally Fitzgibbons at the Rottnest Pro.

[@thomassmith9867]

big upp new zealand

[@kishharvey6374]

wow there good

[@tvheroin]

Julian Cope - Sunspots

[@castelodomar846]

Gnarly Loo 😳

[@theowalton8754]

Baby light my fire!! WARU

[@archieboydell5962]

Chun and Kai are the fuking lads

[@alvinpurple6259]

As good as it gets. The surfing was incredible. The chick who's squeeze is she? Had a go in solid waves

[@billabong]

top notch. that ripper is Billabong Women's Team Rider Laura Enever 🏄‍♀️

[@sirzekialroane6750]

Bringing back the Bunyip

[@aaronbrowne6370]

Occy: yellow rashie Shane: Hey ?

[@TheZacdes]

"8" hours Occy,lol

[@reedhardin681]

Who is the first song? ...The credits only list the second song by Julian Cope

[@JeremiahAlphonsus]

How refreshing NOT to be sonically assaulted with the low music of the stinking ghetto in a new surf video! Do you call me RAAAAAAYYYYYYCCCCIISSSSS??? I don’t give a damn.

[@John-tg5vn]

Awesome vid with a super squad, anyone know any of the names of the songs used?

[@maccasurf88]

F

[@captieye]

Julian Cope - sunspots. excellent music on this one all around....and Warumpi Band!

[@scottawful2094]

Do they call them metallicer in Australia?

[@emilerudelle2223]

it‘s been a few years now hoping for someone to reveal shaun‘s guitar track.. does anyone know it?

[@zizzilock]

Anyone know the songs?

[@joelblanc4477]

songname in the beginning?

[@oliverdesforges8825]

does it always barrel

[@surferdude8086]

A bit much for the lady but she charged it. 👊😀🌊🏄

[@numerrita]

occy is in the video? I want to see it.

[@Zepster77]

What is the song that starts around 3:20

[@radcommuniques822]

Green Iguana Re-Dux 🤙 ( how does anyone surf for 8 hours straight, without food and water, and still be able to talk, let alone count?)

[@user-nf9ck5ou4g]

Why they are surfing without leash?

[@paulhetherington3854]

SFT'--SFTU--septu Hawaiian history

[@Swayzeo]

Best wave in Oz?

[@TB-jy1oc]

Yep

[@davidbalan6571]

When my curriculum sports and games and having a football shoes at primary 🏫 and secondary 🏫 when my academic performance UPSR 2004 1C,4B and PMR 2007 4C,3B and SIJIL PELAJARAN MALAYSIA 2009 8B+,. Super Credit's in Malay Language, Bahasa Inggeris , Moral Knowledge , History and Mathematics and also principal Accountant , Economic and Additional Science I'm very proud of it's . When I finished my studying at private colleges 4 year's I will getting a job's ♎ to buy of it's .

[@mozdickson]

Warumpi Band mate

[@patrickjaroch5084]

i could never use a trac pad for my front foot .

[@antoz8229]

Who was the opening song by?

[@mozdickson]

Warumpi Band

[@antoz8229]

@@mozdickson thanks heaps

[@paulhetherington3854]

EN'EVER'--Hawaiian used by, Shane, as a little kid? For terror vs Hawaiians.

[@ngonzalez1008]

Track List??

[@daviddeck8509]

Nicolas Gonzalez - Warumpi Band.... check this one also... kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4uooJeuit1lg6c

[@DingDong-fq2mo]

What's the music? Not sunspots, the good one?

[@nigelsanderson4940]

What's the song that starts around 3:20?

[@carlmarks8170]

"Waru" by the Warumpi Band kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3PFoKWCaLWKnZo

[@cnfabo]

Sick waves.... Was out one of those days when that crew were up, and that Sean kid had a shit attitude in the water.... Heard he lost some teeth on a bad Wipeout sometime ago and all I could think was jeez man he might loose them again maybe but in a different way, maybe. Just saying... None the less, sick pits...

[@hunterdavis3003]

cnfabo Shaun manners didn't have any manners?

[@cnfabo]

Hunter Davis Haha... But yep, none at all

[@ryantherock7664]

Sounds like a drunk ozzie singing that tune

[@satanslayer9320]

SONG!???? at end of vid?

[@bea4019]

Yeah

[@Si-zz7ul]

Did any of you get to get jiggy with laura?! She is fit as fuck yeeeewwwww

[@thetrip9970]

Jakes

[@jac9963]

Haha..!...Lass mentions her boyfriend the moment she was interviewed....haha!.....