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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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West Coast Surf Shop Supports the Surfing Way of Life on Anna Maria Island

August 19, 2009

Copyright (c) 2009  David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. Anyone who lives and surfs on Anna Maria Island knows who Jim Brady is. Owner of the West Coast Surf Shop, he and his family are heavily involved in the surfing scene on the island.  I remember the surf shop far back into my childhood when it was [...]

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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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Jumping Dolphins!

July 10, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com @sunstreampr ReTweeted this photo posted on TwitPic today by @cityftmyers. It’s always exciting to see dolphins, but when they jump it is doubly exciting. If you click on the photo is should take you to the larger version on TwitPic. But don’t forget to come back and watch the [...]

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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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A Winter Day at the Beach – Cavin Brothers Video

February 23, 2009

Winter at Home – Part 2 from Cavin Brothers on Vimeo. A few weeks ago I shared a surfing video by Cavin Brothers. It was well-received, so I thought I’d share this great video of a day at the beach, plus a bit of surfing, in the Venice area on the Florida gulf coast. It’s [...]

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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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Jumping Dolphin and Surfer

January 24, 2009

During the swell from Hurricane Dean back in 2007 I happened to be shooting video of the surfers in Blind Pass, which rarely breaks.  Blind Pass is a narrow and relatively shallow pass between the north end of St. Pete Beach (aka Upham Beach) and the south end of Treasure Island (aka Sunset Beach). This [...]

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Learning to Surf from Mom

September 13, 2008

Did your Mom teach you how to surf? No? Neither did mine. But the lucky kid below gets a personal surfing lesson from Mom. Isn’t that great! I don’t know who this Mom and son duo are, but they were on Indian Rocks Beach surfing waves from Hurricane Ike. This is one lucky boy! Getting [...]

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