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Saludos a todos.

I was watching discovery channel then an idea struck me and made me realize that my dream  is possible in this life time. The name of the show is Earth shocks and the dream is to surf!

The weather pattern of the earth is constantly changing and I think it is predictable. Weather is a vital factor of economics. Every industry is designed to function in harmony with the environment. With the earth’s weather changing fast from region to region, effective navigation in these economic times require up to date information and forecast on the weather patterns across the world. Thanks to the internet, weather forecast is easily accessible through pocket PC’s.  But, knowing where the surf’s up is one thing, having the money to burn for fuel is another unless you’re a pro.

filipino surfer Bong Garbes

Civilizations across the world continue to be negatively affected by the changes in our planet’s climate. I consider this ludicrous. As mentioned in the earth shocks episode tonight, most people only have a day to day outlook on life and weather rather on a global scale. Though scientists are still puzzled by the behavior of storms, I think that the increase in the earth’s temperature has created a new chapter of the earth headed to something similar of Kevin Costner’s Waterworld movie. The past century’s storm trend should be enough to convince everyone that weather disturbances ahead of us are likely to be considered extreme by our parents. In relation to this, you will probably see the “surf’s up hand sign” more than your parents did in their lifetime and bigger waves more frequent.

I believe every human is unique and capable of achieving anything. I believe people, old and young, have the capability to surf.  The only rule in this game is the one we put in our head.

Later alligator, this wave is mine.

On this Black Friday I’m just shopping for waves at the cliffs. The top of Hill Street gives a nice view to the east and west, so I grabbed a few early morning shots before hitting the cliffs. There was a cold stiff offshore breeze which gave the surfers a little trouble catching waves but the wind died down after the sun came up. The swell was building; marine reports say the size should hold through Saturday.

Took a drive to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on November 25, 2009 and got some photos of the swell. Check em out! Clicking on the photos will take you to the gallery on the Island Vibe website.

Dane Peterson has a photography website up and running with some beautiful photos. He is also has a blog that should be interesting.  Take the time and check it out.

Main Beach on the Gold Coast is located just two minutes drive north of Surfers Paradise. Main Beach has the perfect mix of beach, theme parks, restaurants and shops that you would expect of a Gold Coast suburb. Additionally, Main Beach has a variety of activities and attractions to choose from, including the ones below:

Learn How To Surf

Are you a newbie to surfing? Want to learn how to surf in just a matter of days? Then, you come to the right place! Get Wet Surf School offers tourists or locals like surfing lessons on perfect conditions right in their wave pool.

There are available beach lessons that are held every morning and afternoon. As for the wave pool lessons they are offered only at the White Water World before opening to the public.

As for the beach lessons, these are held at The Spit. This is the perfect place to be for learners to have fun and learn lessons.

The wave pool do give an alternative to those a safer yet fun environment to surf whatever age they may be. This is the perfect practice venue before you even hit real waves out on the beach.

Family Attractions

Get access to a variety of coastal environments that will leave you in total awe as you open your eyes and watch the beautiful beaches, dunes, Littoral rainforest and coastal vistas only at Gold Coast Oceanway. The good thing about this tourist attraction is that it’s children friendly. Therefore, you can bring along your young ones and the whole family with compromising fun for the adults. It is an experience that all of you will enjoy.

You can even bring your dogs as long as they are on a leash. You and your spouse, children and even your pet can enjoy a whole-day affair only at Gold Coast Oceanway.

Theme Park

Sea World is one of the most amazing theme parks located in Main Beach on the Gold Coast. It offers a wide range of exciting shows, attractions, and rides that will keep you and your family busy the whole day.

Fancy watching real-life sharks? You can through visiting Shark Bay and meet gigantic sharks while getting impressed with the breath-taking views both above and below water.

Have you seen Polar Bears? If not, then this is you chance to see how cute these creatures are. Just visit them at Polar Bear Shores and get mesmerized as you watch them play.

All these attractions and more are found only at Main Beach, Gold Coast. There is always an activity that fits you or your whole family’s taste, mood and budget.

Rell Sunn was an ambassador of Hawaii, the first female lifeguard on the islands, and one of the first female pro surfers in the sport’s history.   She passed away from breast cancer at the age of 47, but her legacy lives on through her Menehune Surf Contest and the Rell Sunn Educational Fund.

On November 29th, in Waimea Valley, the Rell Sunn Aloha Jam will take place at 7 p.m.  On hand to perform are Henry Kapono, Jake Shimabukuro, Paula Fuga, Cyril Pahanui, Kaukahi and surfer Rob Machado.  Other special guests are set to make appearances to honor the “Queen of Makaha” for the Rell Sunn Bronze Memorial Project.  A special auction and raffle will take place  at the Aloha Jam, where an array of surfboards from the pros and new items will be up for grabs. A special surfboard shaped by North Shore Shaper, Pat Rawson will have images by Clark Little Photography place on the deck of the board (estimated value up to $5000).

Ticket to the Aloha Jam range from $25 to $75 and are on sale a Surf N Sea in Haleiwa, Boardriders on the North Shore, HIC in town, and online at www.ticketjunior.com. For more information and to purchase tickets or make a contribution to the Memorial Bronze Fund, visit www.rellsuun.com.

Sunn’s Menehune Surf Contest was the starting point for many of today’s top Hawaiian surfers.  This contest is now in its 34th year and also takes place this weekend from November 28-30. The purpose of this program is to educate the public, especially children, about sportsmanship and the environment and to combat juvenile delinquency. Events include body board, long board, and short board, and each event is broken into age and gender categories. The entrance fee is $10 per event and each child is limited to two events. Similar contests are usually $25 to $100 per event. Each contestant receives a t-shirt with contest advertising on it, assorted surf necessities, magazines, literature about the dangers of the sun, early cancer screening, and environmental awareness.

The Menehune Surf Contest is held every year at Makaha Beach.  All children 12 years old and under are welcome to participate in the contest, and the public is invited to attend free of charge.

I recently read a great biography on Rell Sunn called Fierce Heart, which was written by my high school English teacher, Stuart Holmes Coleman.  I highly recommend reading this book!  You can purchase it on Coleman’s website: http://stuart-coleman.com.

Virginia Beach Good Outdoor Activity With More Adventure City

Virginia Beach is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina, and provides miles of beachfront for activities in the Virginia sun. Fishing, golfing, whale watching, dolphin watching, historic landmarks, and exciting attractions and popular events are part of the beach experience. Virginia Beach is very good travel city in the state of Virginia which is the most popular destination, nightlife, sightseeing, restaurant, cheap hotels and one of the most attraction cities for tourists which are beach, the state parks and Back Bay national wildlife refuge beckon, hiking, kayaking, and biking adventures. To get all the adventure in this city there are many cheap hotels in virginia beach. This city is a good travel city and there also fantastic tourist attraction points include:-

• Cape Henry Lighthouse
• Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
• Mount Trashmore
• The Old Coast Guard Station
• Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum
• State Parks and National Wildlife Refuge
• Virginia Beach Farmers Market
• Golfing, Surfing, Kayaking and Canoeing
• Running, Fishing, Dolphin and Whale Watching

www.lesliestjohn.com

Wow. It’s warming up and I have discovered a pair of shorts I have yet to wear. Like many other items of clothing I own they are just a little too snug round the waist.

(Sighing wistfully) If I only had a waist.

Another exciting thing is that today’s photo is one of my favourites so far.

Not only does it prove for once and all that I have absolutely no arse, the picture also suggests I may be an amputee.

So without further ado here I am…

One leg + no arse = hot patootie

Top: Dragstar vest

Bottom: My bottom (if that’s what you’d call it) is encased in never-before-worn on YoD Think Mink denim shorts

Accessory: Denim sparkly bucket hat offering no protection when I am at the beach later on

We walked into the Muchik Surf School yesterday to ask a few questions about the surfing scene in Huanchaco, and ended up whiling away the afternoon in the company of Margarita and Chicho Huamanchumo.


While we were waiting for Chicho (who along with brother Omar is the main surf instructor), Margarita told us that if we had any questions about Huanchaco she could help us, as she’d been born here.


Huanchaco is a town that is growing at an increasingly breakneck pace, and so to hear that she had been born and raised here piqued my interest. “How long has your family lived here?” I asked.

“Over four thousand years,” Margarita said with pride. “We’ve lived in Chan Chan since the pre-Inca times.” Two and a half hours and 6 pages of scrawled notes later, Rob and I emerged into the sunlight with a much deeper picture of the area’s history from some of its most knowledgeable inhabitants.


We first met Margarita the first day we arrived in Huanchaco, when we stopped by Muchik looking for leads on an apartment. She called Johnny, who eventually took us to the place we’re renting now. We’ve exchanged smiles and waves from then on, but this was the first time we’d really sat down and talked with her.

She’s a friendly woman with a passion for this place and a deep knowledge of the place which she attributes to her grandfather’s stories. The Huamanchumo family is one of two remaining families still living in the Huanchaco area.


Chicho told us this story about their origins:

They say that the god Naylamp was sailing down the coast, from Tumbes to Lima, discovering new places and founding new cities. When he came to the peninsula of Huanchaco they saw that the cove was filled with abundant and delicious fish, types they had never seen before.

Naylamp and his warriors made an offering and called the place “Wuankarute,” which in the Muchik language means “The lagoon of the golden fish.” Naylamp left to continue his quest down the coast, but three warriors stayed to found the village of Huanchaco, and the civilizations of the Moche and Chimu.

The warriors were Guaman-Chumu, Shilmaza, and one more whose line has disappeared. The descendents of Shilmaza live now in Huanchaquito, and those of Guaman-Chumu (which means “the bird that flies,” said Margarita) now run a surf school in Huanchaco, just a few meters off the beach where the warrior originally set foot in his new homeland.

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Here are some surfing images from shoots I’ve been at from the past couple weeks. With the start of fall and the dusting off of wetsuits and booties Virginia Beach has been getting a pretty consistent swell starting with the nor’easter of 2009.
To supplement the smaller swell days a small group of locals has started practicing tow in’s. I was lucky enough to be at the beach shooting some images of the old Coast Guard Station while they were out having some fun. Normally seen on the west coast in places like Maverick’s and the Hawaiian Islands for big surf, using the jet ski they were able to get a lot more speed and power than normal, which resulted in some pretty big airs. Looked like lots of fun and definitely fun photographing.

Right click for full size…

Ryan Tatar’s ‘Shakas and Singlefins’ blog moves from Blogspot to Tumblr.

It is pretty sweet. Check it out here.

Hier (le 25 novembre), un bon gros swell a réveillé le spot mythique de Waimea. À l’eau, quelques européens dont Alain Riou, tout juste finaliste à Haleiwa, et Aritz Aramburu. Le team manager Quiksilver Thomas Portet se met lui dans un gros barrel du côté d’Haleiwa.

Photos: testemale/quiksilver

mad longboard video from darn sarf for video ‘fusion’. one of my mates told me, ‘you should never pump a longboard down the line’ – i knew he was wrong all along.

think his next statment was something like, ‘brown sauce tastes rubbish with bacon sandwiches’.

 

011109_4689 copy, originally uploaded by simsurf.

The surf has been totally **** on the Gold Coast to say the least since i arrived home from Bali, but on the plus side it has allowed me to catch up on photos! Here is day 2 from of the Quiksilver Open at cranking Keramas

All the photos can be found here…http://www.flickr.com/photos/fanta75/sets/72157622879035030/

Komune Resorts,

The new resort for surfers and travelers who enjoy the beach lifestyle will be opening on the Gold Coast in February 2010. Just in time for the Quicksilver Pro.

The resort is on Coolangatta beach only minutes walk away from some of Australia’s best surf beaches. The resort includes 10 stories of share, self-contained and penthouse accommodation.

The building has gone under 5 months and $2 million dollars of renovations to make it the best surfers resort in Australia. Renowned Italian architect Giovanni D’Ambrosio has designed the building to include all the features of a surfers resort but also be a sanctuary for rest and social activity.

With views over both Coolangatta beach and the Tweed river the resort is located perfectly to suit the demands of people traveling to the Gold Coast.

The resort hosts a variety of facilities for the surfers, backpackers and travelers:

• The option of share, self-contained and penthouse accommodation.
• Video, intercom and key card security
• Security safes
• Air Conditioning
• Telephones
• Laundry facilities including washing machine and dryers
• Television including cable and free-to-air T.V.
• Cooking Facilities
• Surfboard Racks
• Internet Computers and WiFi access
• Restaurant and Bar
• Pool
• Views of Coolangatta and Tweed
• Modern and relaxing social environment

Komune will be the latest surfing and beach style resort for backpackers and travelers on the Gold Coast.