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Tropical Storm Isaac Brings Surf to Florida’s Gulf Coast
I drove out to Pass-a-Grille Beach this morning to check the surf before the winds turned to the south and messed things up. Pass-a-Grille wasn’t the best place to go because most of the south swell was blocked by the sandbars in the pass. Still, there was a little wave by the jetty and quite […]
Tropical Surf Dreams from Fiji
Fiji Vignette 3/3 from Taj Burrow on Vimeo.
Surf’s Up in Florida
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 […]
Lone Surfer, Warmer Times, Cocoa Beach
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 […]
How Big is This Wave?
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 […]
Gulfster’s Surf Trip to Puerto Rico
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 […]
Surfing Hurricane Ida on Florida’s Gulf Coast
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 […]
South Florida Surfing Blues
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 […]
Surfboard Design Goes Back to its Roots
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 […]
