surfing

Tropical Surf Dreams from Fiji

January 14, 2012

Fiji Vignette 3/3 from Taj Burrow on Vimeo.

Surf’s Up in Florida

August 26, 2011

Friday morning has revealed better conditions for surfing Irene’s swell on the Florida Atlantic coast. This photo from the Tw0 Palms cam in Cape Canaveral. For surf photos from Wednesday and Thursday on Gulfster. Expect better photos later today. And naturally, there have been some unfortunate storm surf injuries among those who underestimate the power [...]

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Lone Surfer, Warmer Times, Cocoa Beach

January 12, 2011

So I was sitting on the beach and this guy walks down with his longboard. It was a warm October evening and there was a very small swell in the Atlantic Ocean. He paddles out and catches one wave after another for about half-an-hour. Then leaves. Beats going to a bar after work. And it’s [...]

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How Big is This Wave?

December 10, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com This morning I noticed that I had a new follower on Twitter (@ActiviTourist ). I checked out his ActiviTourist web site and zoomed in on his “World’s Best Surf” category where I found this embedded video called “Biggest Waves Ever Surfed in Australia.” I thought it fitting to do [...]

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Gulfster’s Surf Trip to Puerto Rico

December 9, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com I just had to post about this. Years ago Ryan Clapper helped start a website that is a mainstay of Florida Gulf Coast surfers: Gulfster.com. Now and then he takes a surf trip to some far-off land and posts lots of great pictures and some video. Ryan has outdone [...]

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Surfing Hurricane Ida on Florida’s Gulf Coast

November 9, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. Today I spent a couple of hours photographing the surfers in the Gulf of Mexico enjoying a southerly swell from Hurricane Ida. This is a classic break– steep shifty peaks and a short wall breaking in shallow water. I’m not going to name the break, but if you’ve ever [...]

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South Florida Surfing Blues

August 26, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com While I was looking at various surf cams on Florida’s Atlantic coast during the passage of Hurricane Bill, I came across the above graphical model of hurricane swells reaching the east coast of Florida. It perfectly illustrates why the Atlantic coast surf is more consistent in central and northeast [...]

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Surfboard Design Goes Back to its Roots

August 1, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com The ancient Hawaiians surfed on wooden surfboards. Even early California and Florida surfers used heavy wooden boards until fiberglass was invented. Now we see all kinds of “advanced” surfboard design taking shape with fiberglass, foam, and plastic. But some surfboard makers are going back to have a closer look [...]

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Radio Controlled Surfer-Amazing!

July 8, 2009

Posted by David McRee on BlogTheBeach.com Spencer Johnson and his incredible radio controlled surfer. American ingenuity at its best. Find out more and buy the DVD at http://reeseproductions.com/videos.html#RadioWaves This is one of the coolest and most amazing things I’ve encountered since I bought my iphone;-)

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Hurricane Ike Redux

February 16, 2009

Flipping through my photos this evening I came across some shots I took down on Anna Maria Island on September 11, 2008 during Hurricane Ike’s passage through the gulf. We had some pretty big swells. I surfed here a lot back in the late 1970′s with my buddy Alex. Those were the days. Definitely too [...]

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