22 month old (or 22 month young) surfer and his Mom, Daize Shayne Goodwin go for a surfboard ride in Waikiki.

Last Friday night San Francisco’s surfer and environmentalist communities came together for a very special evening at the Victoria Theatre: the first annual Save The Waves Film Festival, merging film, art, music, surf and environment together into a seamless blend of stoked fun and heartfelt love for the oceans.

The brown pelican, pushed to the edge of extinction in the 1970s by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said. "We can celebrate an extraordinary accomplishment: the brown pelican is endangered no more," Salazar said.

Joined by a bevy of Hollywood's most visible environmental activists, an alliance of leading ocean conservation groups today released a Public Service Announcement supporting the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the Southern California coast.

Ola Chica make surfing proof bikinis. What a concept. (sorry guys ;). They say:

"Ola Chica designs began while I was on a surfing adventure in the tropical waters of the Hawaiian Islands. Since I learned to surf in Santa Cruz, CA, where wet suits and booties were mandatory, I never realized the importance of a good bikini. My first warm water surfing experiences were pretty embarrassing - I never failed to lose my bottoms while duck-diving or wiping-out."

Some reviews of new good surf movies and books.

With a verve for travel and an addiction to the ocean, West-coast native Amy Waeschle explores her lust for surfing in her new book Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering (Mountaineers Books, Paperback, $16.95). To Waeschle, surfing is more of a feeling than an actual sport, combining the mental quest for exploration with the physicality of riding a wave.

The Alaia board is a thin, fast, finless, wooden surfboard with no rocker, arguably hard to handle. La La is the ancient Hawaiian word for alaia surfing. It is about sliding across the wave and then breaking trim into a sideslip or a cut back. Check out the video or the driftsurfing article for more information. What are your thoughts? Fad or inspiration?