Surfing Waves

Share a beautiful wave.

Nearly invisible without the white water.

This one is so good it's worth repeating.

On Facebook yesterday, picture taken locally just a day or two ago....

I find it amazing that boards stick to the side of a wave like that, but keep going forward.

Wave and sky.

BoMan wrote:Wave and sky.

Surf that and I'll give you a prize

Picture taken by someone somewhere sometime

dtc wrote:Surf that and I'll give you a prize

Ha ha! Sadly the only way I will see the inside of any barrel is with a boogie board...but I am not too proud to try.

I think that picture might be of Youngmansurfer at Inside Horner's but if it were then it was before I had it wired. It could be Youngmansurfer's younger brother or someone else at Inside Horner's. Inside Horners is where I first got tubed riding a surfboard. It was actually the very first time I tried to ride a surfboard there and the very first wave I caught. I was still paipo boarding but my younger brother had this 5'2" surfboard which was called a potato chip board back in those days way shorter than most boards back then but it was just a little longer than my paipo board so I borrowed it from him and after spending 30 minutes trying to figure out the lineup with a surfboard instead of my paipo board I caught a wave and popped up but stayed crouched got covered up and came out. I wasn't really sure if I got tubed because it was a wet one with whitewater in my face the whole time but another kid told me I was tubed completely and came out. I was like "this is so easy"....little did I know when I actually started surfing it would be 6 months before I saw the inside of a tube.

So interesting. Any ideas how this happens?

Why are most of the pictures mostly photos of un-rideable waves Breaking on the sand ? To me a beautiful wave is a rideable wave that peels on forever down the line. Watch the DVD "Purelines". It's about Jeffrey's Bay. That's a beautiful wave. Or search "corduroy waves" or "corduroy surf". That's when you know there's waves...... just beautiful.

FIXED!

From a Jaffa trip

waikikikichan wrote:Search "corduroy waves"

No need to search. I usually ride "the patch."

Everyone got pitted!

The Maldives are on my bucket list.

Thought I'd post four favourite shots, two of the local surf , my home break in different moods and another two at opposite ends of the Indonesian archipelago. All of which I have been lucky enough to surf more than once or twice.
Locals first

When the bar is raised to hollow and fast!



Soft scenic surf of slide and glide sort.


The Northern end of the Archipelago.



The other end of Indo.