Austin Keen had the idea to take advantage one of the many things California has to offer.
Not very many places in the world can you go from beautiful ocean sports to normally winter sports. We did just that, pulling off skimboarding, surfing, wakesurfing, skateboarding and snowboarding all in one day.
The beast that river-dwellers have long feared is coming later this week.
It’s a wave called Pororoca, the great roar, and its low bellow can be heard up to an hour before it arrives. It tumbles in from the ocean and travels up the Amazon on a path of destruction. While the region’s residents accept the river’s wrath and start moving their boats and animals, daredevils called bore riders grab their surfboards.
This beast that they will ride is called a tidal bore, a wave that flows in from the ocean and propagates to dozens of rivers around the world. Along the Amazon … More
Biggest surf day so far this El Nino winter 2015/16 and the waves just kept on increasing in size throughout this Big Wednesday 1/27/16. An incredible day for surfers and spectators alike with spectacular wipeouts and crazy elevator drops all applauded by an appreciative local and international audience.