Beautiful Waves

[BoMan]

A small beauty...I'll be lookin' for one of these on Sunday!

[oldmansurfer]

He almost has a shoulder tube ride.

[RinkyDink]

[icetime]

Teahupoo, one of the most beautiful waves from above the surface, worst nightmare below

[jaffa1949]

Steamer Lane?

[dtc]

Steamer Lane?

Looks good whatever it is - 2 really good peaks (or 4 if you count the A-frames as 2 each) plus possible a nice little right over in the front corner (cant tell how deep it is there)

[RinkyDink]

Steamer Lane?

Yup. Some nice A-frames going.

[RinkyDink]

Why do people love the ocean and water? Here are some ideas.
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/19/why_our ... o_the_sea/
TLDR

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The late Denis Dutton, a philosopher who focused on the intersection of art and evolution, believed that what we consider “beautiful” is a result of our ingrained linkage to the kind of natural landscape that ensured our survival as a species. During a 2010 TED talk, “A Darwinian Theory of Beauty,” Dutton described findings based on both evolutionary psychology and a 1997 survey of contemporary preference in art. When people were asked to describe a “beautiful” landscape, he observed, the elements were universally the same: open spaces, covered with low grass, interspersed with trees. And if you add water to the scene — either directly in view, or as a distant bluish cast that the eye takes as an indication of water — the desirability of that landscape skyrockets. Dutton theorized that this “universal landscape” contains all the elements needed for human survival: grasses and trees for food (and to attract edible animal life); the ability to see approaching danger (human or animal) before it arrives; trees to climb if you need to escape predators; and the presence of an accessible source of water nearby. In 2010 researchers at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom asked forty adults to rate over one hundred pictures of different natural and urban environments. Respondents gave higher ratings for positive mood, preference, and perceived restorativeness to any picture containing water, whether it was in a natural landscape or an urban setting, as opposed to those photos without water.

Marcus Eriksen, a science educator who once sailed a raft made entirely of plastic bottles from the U.S. Pacific coast to Hawaii, expanded upon Dutton’s hypothesis to include seacoasts, lakeshores, or riverbanks. In the same way the savannah allowed us to see danger a long way off, he theorized, coastal dwellers could see predators or enemies as they came across the water. Better, land-based predators rarely came from the water, and most marine-based predators couldn’t emerge from the water or survive on land. Even better than that: the number of food and material resources provided in or near the water often trumped what could be found on land. The supply of plant-based and animal food sources may vanish in the winter, Eriksen observed, but our ancestors could fish or harvest shellfish year-round. And because the nature of water is to move and flow, instead of having to travel miles to forage, our ancestors could walk along a shore or riverbank and see what water had brought to them or what came to the water’s edge.

[BoMan]

Let's go video! My summer mantra is "Who Says You Can't Surf When It's Flat?"

[RinkyDink]

A Vlog of a Spaniard adventuring on the coast of California.

[BoMan]

LOVE IT...my home break.

[Big H]

Heres one....

[RinkyDink]

Heres one....

The photographer who snapped that photo was, unfortunately, decapitated.

[dtc]

Guess I shouldn't complain about my shore break

[oldmansurfer]

Looks like what I was surfing last weekend ........ok so maybe it's a little bigger than what i had

[BoMan]

[jaffa1949]

Hasn't got the contrast of sea/ sky sand but it can still pull faces at you!
Grey day in last big storm.

[BoMan]

Beauty, skill and COURAGE!

[RinkyDink]

[oldmansurfer]

Sharks don't scare me but that does