Monthly Archives: July 2010

Even when it’s tiny and onshore, there’s still nothing quite like surfing at home. The familiarity of colors, textures, sandbars and skylines make it irresistibly welcoming. As I’m off for another surfing adventure in the southern hemisphere, I bit adieu to my lovely homeland for a spell. For now, time with whales and explorations of [...]

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This from a surf report from Walton County in Northwest Florida: “WARNING: I, along with several others that surfed last week’s Alex swell, were sick over the weekend. I felt like I had the flu, while others were throwing up. Water and shoreline appear clean, but I think it’s what you can’t see that’s going [...]

We spent an hour or so on hands and knees picking up bits and slabs of tar that washed up from an unknown source today. While some have said that they’ve seen this happen before, the result of passing ships dumping waste, I’ve not experienced the saddening sight of black tar littering my most treasured [...]