Archive for the ‘Surfing & SUP’ Category
THE freeway was dark. Wisps of sea mist obscured the moon. At 2 a.m. there wasn’t another car on Highway 101, the southern extension of the Pacific Coast Highway that traces the edge of the continent from Orange County in California almost to the Oregon border. On the left side of the road as I drove south, miles of tract housing reached into the hills. Somewhere on the right, between the guardrail and the great void of the Pacific, was the entrance to the San Elijo campground.
I’d already missed the turn three times. The lights on my 1977 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van … More
Vasco Ribeiro and Cannelle Bulard have conquered the Oakley Pro Junior San Sebastian, in tricky 2-3ft peaks, at the main event site of La Zurriola. The Portuguese surfer defeated Ugo Robin, Frederico Morais and Dimitri Ouvre, while Bulard beated Maud Le Car, Joanne Defay and Justine Dupont.
Ribeiro opened his finals account with a solid 7.67 out of 10 in the opening moments of the 30-minute final to take an early lead and place enormous pressure on his opponents  … More