The surf gently rocks Gordon Hempton as he courts hypothermic bliss.
Surfers guard their secret spots. Hempton’s is a jade-green jewel with a long fetch of open water that catches whatever raucous weather blasts in from the Pacific.
He lives in the tiny town of Joyce, Clallam County, and records the sounds of nature for a living. At least once a week he cleanses his soul with a good scrubbing of wind, sand and saltwater.
Even with the arrival of spring last Friday…Â Details
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Patience paid off at Steamer Lane on Sunday as conditions picked up just in time for the finals of the 23rd annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival.
Chris Harvey from Guernsey, England earned himself the first-place medal in the High Performance men’s division to repeat as champion.
“I felt relieved. The past two days haven’t been very good, and I felt both relieved and excited that the waves really shaped up for the finals,” Harvey said.
The waves ranged from 2-6 feet with the best coming during the afternoon’s High Performance men final, allowing competitors to …. Detail
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Friday marked the end of the registration period for the Billabong XXL Global big-wave awards, regarded as the Gold Standard in Big Wave surfing prizes.
The annual contest, which awards a prize purse of more than $130,000 for surfers who ride the biggest waves during the previous year, traditionally has been dominated by surfers from California and Hawaii who ride big waves in the same locations.
Which is well and good, except that almost no big waves to speak of came to California or Hawaii this year. So, say you’re a big-wave surfer and you want to win a big-wave contest, because that contest has a $50,000 first-place prize, and because you have almost no other source of income, but the waves have all but dried up in the big-wave hot spots. What do you do? …Â Details
PLEASEÂ HELP
I spend time in the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum located on the cliff overlooking Steamers Lane each time I go to Santa Cruz. It’s small but almost spirtual for me to see the history of surfing.
The Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society is a nonprofit entity that was created in part to preserve the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. It is asking for donations to help maintain the Museum and even expand the hours of the popular landmark.
The Preservation Society is accepting donations to help the Museum Project at the following location.
Wells Fargo Bank
1975 Soquel Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Acct # 6733461542 for Surf Museum
Please help as it’s a great cause
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