Featured by Billabong Women's: Lindsey in "Her Horizons"
Every so often something lands that makes us pinch ourselves. Billabong Women's picked our founder, Lindsey, for Part 4 of Her Horizons — their series celebrating women who find strength, freedom and belonging in the waves.
They shot it on the coastlines of Portugal — the same Atlantic that started all of this — through the lens of photographer Issy Croker.
What we love is how they told her story. Lindsey grew up landlocked in Stockport and spent years in cities, in her words "always feeling a quiet pull toward the ocean." She didn't find surfing until her early thirties — then traded London for the wild edges of Cornwall and built a life, and Marnie Rays, around the sea. Billabong's closing line is the whole reason we do this:
"It is never too late to find yourself in the water."
Why it means something to us
Marnie Rays exists for exactly the woman that campaign speaks to — the one who's always felt the pull of the ocean but assumed surfing wasn't for her, or that she'd left it too late. Seeing a brand like Billabong tell that story to a global audience, with Lindsey at the centre of it, is a quiet bit of proof that we're building the right thing.
You can watch the Her Horizons chapter on Instagram. And if it stirs something — our women's surf & wellness retreat in Ericeira, on that same Portuguese coast, is where a lot of these stories begin.