Dan Scheffler lives just outside Cape Town, South Africa with his wife and son. He loves rough travelling, mountains, surfing and the sea. He is a doctor in general family practice, but tries not to let work interfere too much with his surfing. He has travelled extensively in Indonesia, by ship and over land, hitch-hiked from Cape Town to Kenya, dodged landmines in Mozambique and surfed sand dunes in Namibia. When the Cape winters get cold or the Southeaster howls incessantly in summer, he escapes by writing about wild places and tropical trips. Island Explorer is his first book.