The tight-knit and peaceful surfing community in the Mexican port of Ensenada is in shock.

Three foreign surfers – two Australian brothers, Callum and Jake Robinson, and their American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad – had been in the town just a few days earlier, enjoying some of the finest surfing spots in North America at the start of what was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.

Now, their bodies are being repatriated to their families after they were brutally murdered at a camping site.

They were planning to take a well-worn route, setting out from Ensenada, surfing and camping along the Pacific coast, and arriving in Rosarito further north. Unfortunately, they never made it to their accommodation.

Instead, several days later, their bodies were found down a well several kilometres from the camping site, their burnt-out pick-up truck found nearby. Each man had been killed by a gunshot to the head, the authorities said, sending a chill through the local surfing community.

The implications of the violence are still reverberating through the quiet beach-town.

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