Hey, summer is winding down, so I might as well try to get in a nice surf shot before ski pics start rolling in. This cool familial shot by tarikb caught my eye because I really liked the silhouetted scene of two guys (father and son, tarik asks? big brother little brother?).
The shot was taken at Soup Bowl, Bathsheba, East Coast of Barbados. Sweet pic, dude.
Surfers might be interested in a production by the filmmakers at Billygoat Films
called ”The Mystic“. Shot in film, this surf film is a
paean to surfing culture and it is said to have one of the longest tubes ever caught on film. The film
was directed by Bill Ballard and basically takes you from the chilly shores of Chile to pounding breakers of
Indonesia. You can watch the trailer here.
San Francisco and the Bay Area is already known as one of the most outdoorsy regions in the country. Head down to
the bay and you can windsurf and frolic in the frigid water (but don’t swim too far lest the bay’s tide drag you out to
sea), take a run through magnificent Golden Gate Park, take your mountain bike into the
Marin Headlands. And of course there are surfing beaches all over the
place.
Now here’s another idea, one that could make for an excellent goal, if goal-setting is your thing.
The San Francisco Trail is a 270-mile
omniumgatherum of hiking trails and bike paths that wends and weaves its way through 47 cities and towns and nine
counties (and passes innumerable strip malls along the way, so you can almost always satisfy a
Yoshinoya jones).
The trail is always growing, adding bits here, pieces there, and it creates a jagged ring around the bay, with ends
stretching from San Jose to Napa…meaning, of course, that you can savor the dismal sprawl of the south bay and the
verdant loveliness of wine country without ever leaving the trail.
The good folks at hackaday have posted a bit about how
to build your own surfboard. You may have thought that the effort was beyond the ability of mere mortals, but according
to Surfer Steve’s Web site, you can actually do it fairly
simply. Well, sort of.
It is, in Steve’s very words, “dusty, gooey, sweaty, and toxic work”, but if you’re up for the task, the site and
Steve’s book help you choose your materials and take all the required steps to get your hands on a Clark Foam blank and
then cut away, making your own design and fiberglassing the thing in the comfy confines of your own garage.
It was Father’s Day, and Jake Heron, a professional crayfisherman was out surfing with his friend while his kids
watched dad hanging ten from the beach. Then a Great
White came along and attacked Heron, flinging him around and tearing gashes into his body with its razor sharp
teeth. What did Heron do? Why, he punched the damn shark in the nose and gills and head as hard as he could.
Sure, he ended up with 20 stitches in his right arm and 40 stitches in his right thigh, but the shark let go, and now
the kids have one of the best dad-is-a-shark-ass-kicker stories ever.
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