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mom_surfing Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5300 the outer banks of north carolina	Posted on Aug 03 2007 05:53 AM i'm getting ready to go right now.............weeeeeeee — www.surfintheeye.com Top
Slingerland61 Joined: Sep 04, 2006 Posts: 225 PacNW (Portland)	Posted on Aug 03 2007 05:41 PM Nice pics Goob! I haven't been in the water for over a month!!! No shortie suits for us in Oregon... 4/3 suits... on super balmy days we might go without booties. Surfing is still more fun than... just about anything else! -Steve — Steve The Apollo Four 2012-present https://www.facebook.com/ApolloFour/ The Verbtones 2002-2012 Top
goober Joined: Jan 12, 2007 Posts: 317 California	Posted on Aug 03 2007 10:08 PM Slingerland61: Thanks--occassionally my wife follows me to the beach--thats the only reason I have a few photos. I surfed in Oregon a few years back. It was some state park cove just north of Manzanita/Rockaway Beach but I can't remember the name. It was summer and I rented a full 5 ml suit with head cover and boots and it was still bone numbing cold! Don't know how you guys do it. My pic at Sayulita was my first day out and I wore a shorty because it was December. It was too much and I wore just a swim suit the rest of the time. Hawaii, the water temp is so perfect--swim suit plus rash guard and booties just in case I get pinned on the reefs. The skin on us old farts doesn't heal that quickly. goober Top
casey Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 520	Posted on Aug 04 2007 05:04 AM Here's a pic of me on one of the better days I've caught here on the right coast, riding an old style 9'6" longboard. [image](http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1798/dsc00272bq4.th.jpg) Last edited: Aug 12, 2007 21:14:06 Top
groucho26 Joined: Jan 23, 2007 Posts: 111	Posted on Aug 11 2007 09:34 PM I'm not a surfer, but I play one on TV - Honestly, I think I would be scared to death. On another topic, to Joelman - love your ice blue jm. groucho26 Top
Joelman Joined: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 1488 Redlands, CA	Posted on Aug 11 2007 11:08 PM Sorry about the thread drift guys. groucho26 On another topic, to Joelman - love your ice blue jm. groucho26 Thank you. It is a '62 reissue I just got a month or so ago. I really like it. Back on Topic. groucho26 .... It is hard and scary at first. But once you get the hang of surfing it is overwelhming. When I was young and slim and back then I could swim. I was floating on balsa and foam. Now that I'm fat and old, I am I stay where I'm told, cause those waves can be pretty cold. Joel Top
LHR Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 2123 The jungle	Posted on Aug 12 2007 04:58 AM I was gonna take it up in the Bay Area but never did. Stories would pop up on the evening news with alarming regularity about how the great white sharks were excising important body parts from the local surfers. Since learning a new sport is hard enough without having to worry about a 20-ft-long, man-eating carnivore getting in the way, I chose to snowboard. I got to where I could actually do it well enough to satisfy the ignorant and annoy the skiers; but I was hardly a "dude" or even remotely "extreme". Later a willy-nilly tile setting experience created the perfect occasion for my left knee to foment a violent uprising to protest this folly of youth. Sadly, I likely will never get the chance to surf. Though here in the desert, it is moot. — SSIV Top
Redd_Tyde Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 260 Oceanside, CA	Posted on Aug 12 2007 11:44 AM Right now we are getting infested with huge purple jelly fish. Relatively harmless if you get stung, but they are like up to 20 feet long. The lsast time these jellyfish made it into San Diego waters was about 10 years ago. My wife got a picture of one on the beaches in Coronado. I will have to post it up. They are crazy looking. Other than that the swell in SoCal has been pretty fun this summer for the most part. Flat spells only lasting a day or two before it gets back into the waist to chest high range again. _RT Top
mom_surfing Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5300 the outer banks of north carolina	Posted on Aug 12 2007 08:42 PM we had fun surf here today also, and little jellyfish pieces to sting you in the shallower water. — www.surfintheeye.com Top
kenposurf Joined: Feb 23, 2007 Posts: 1650 Santa Rosa, CA	Posted on Aug 22 2007 11:06 AM Just watched the documentry "Liquid Stage"..stoked again...leaving now for Salmon Creek...beautiful film... — www.northofmalibu.com Top
Overhead_Ted Joined: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 245 Long Beach, CA	Posted on Aug 22 2007 11:38 AM Joining in on the surf conversation...Here's a shot of me last year in Fiji on Nomotu Island (which is the sister island to Tavarua, the better known of the two). 17 friends and I rented out the whole island and surfed perfect waves by ourselves for 10 days. Makes coming back to flat, overcrowded HB a little difficult! image I hopeI posted the web link correctly,... Top
Overhead_Ted Joined: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 245 Long Beach, CA	Posted on Aug 22 2007 11:39 AM Little help for a rookie link poster? Top
JetBlue Joined: May 30, 2006 Posts: 746 Cool, CA	Posted on Aug 22 2007 12:09 PM Ted, it looks like you did it correctly. I think the problem is that you have to register at that site for that URL to return a picture. I'm no expert though... — Don Top
Overhead_Ted Joined: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 245 Long Beach, CA	Posted on Aug 22 2007 12:38 PM Don, I think you are right...damn Kodak Gallery Top
goober Joined: Jan 12, 2007 Posts: 317 California	Posted on Jul 27 2008 11:16 PM Just adding a few pics from a nice Sunday morning session in Malibu. all the same wave. Heading for Kauai tomorrow: image image Top
Waxhead Joined: Oct 07, 2007 Posts: 43	Posted on Aug 12 2008 10:30 PM Thanks to Goober for keeping this thread moving and the great photos. I love to get out and have a surf, catch up with friends every Saturday morning for surf and check the surf everyday on the way to work (unsafe!). It's a great way to wash off the dirt. Sounds like most people like longboards out there? I am riding Tom Wegener boards a 10 foot traditional old/new mal and one of his 9'6" Paulownia boards. His Paulownia boards are beautiful, timber boards with big old D fins. Works of art that are beautiful to surf. Tom's website is: tomwegenersurfboards.com I've made a few boards over the years and am currently making my own surf wax out of natural products. Waxhead Top
mom_surfing Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5300 the outer banks of north carolina	Posted on Aug 13 2008 07:10 AM i ride all short boards ranging from 6'2" to 6'4". we got really fun surf at huntington pier after the surf convention weekend and then returned home to some really fun surf. we've got two tropical systems brewing in the atlantic right now which could produce some good surf. hopefully they will stay out to sea. — www.surfintheeye.com Top
mom_surfing Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5300 the outer banks of north carolina	Posted on Aug 16 2008 01:14 PM todays the fourth day in a row the surf has been decent here. this part of the east coast is not part of the 'least' coast. surfing is my mental health break. — www.surfintheeye.com Top
HBkahuna Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1778 Star, Idaho. Formerly lived in Surf City USA.	Posted on Aug 17 2008 12:10 PM I grew up surfing in Huntington Beach. In the late 60's there was this steel pier for construction being done at the mouth of the Santa Ana River at the Newport - HB border. There was a really nice wave that broke there. You could only go left. Surfed the HB Pier of course. Always lots of kooks as well as well known surfers there. Had a 9'6" Chuck Dent I think it was. Yellow with a single redwood fin. It was a real log. My parents gave it away after I moved out. Bummer. Robert August used to have a surf shop in HB diagonal across the street from where the surf museum is now located. I used to sit on my bike looking in the back door watching him shape boards. Career & career related injuries curtailed my surfing. Just had one shoulder fixed. Soon as the other shoulder has been fixed I plan to test out the shoulder & the knees & hit it again. Not sure if it will be possible but I'm going to try. Top
seafoamer Joined: Aug 08, 2008 Posts: 89	Posted on Aug 17 2008 01:39 PM I surf, but I SUCK. Top

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