Recent Rants

I like to check here if it's been raining: http://sfwater.org/custom/lims/beachmain1.cfm/MC_ID/5/MSC_ID/14

If I see green dots, then I should be able to surf right?

""If I see green dots, then I should be able to surf right?" I suppose if the dots don't b ..."

"It was a lot of fun though, OH clean outer bar. deteriorated but a window of awesomeness. ..."

"Experience says it's real easy to get sick when you surf within a few days of a heavy rain ..."

"How many folks have absolutely (totally for real) got sick because you surfed after a rain ..."

"I know 2 people who have gotten nasty sinus infections and another with a gross ear infect ..."

A Pennsylvania woman on vacation in Florida took a tip from two dolphins to save a lost Doberman Pinscher that got stranded on a sandbar.

When Audrey D'Alessandro and her husband, Sam, walked out of their home on Marco Island, near Naples, Fla., to go fishing, "we saw these two dolphins, and they were splashing and making this big commotion" in a canal behind their vacation home, she said.

"very cool "

"This is a signal from the Surf Gods that @tehdely has the wrong idea about dogs and beache ..."

"Dogs are fine, I just like trolling their owners :)"

"We are very fortunate that dolphins and porpoises are our friends. You don't need to spen ..."

Cities along California's coastline that for years have dismissed reports of climate change or lagged in preparing for rising sea levels are now making plans to fortify their beaches, harbors and waterfronts.

Costa Rica has greatly expanded a marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park, safeguarding a total of 2,900 nautical square miles (one million hectares) still rich with endangered sharks and sea turtles.

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"Sounds very cool. "

"Sounds like one of those emails offering hot Russian women who want to marry you.....excep ..."

"@wrybread: it's hard to see the point of Location Turtle visiting Baja."

"@the beard: I gotta disagree. Have you ever surfed there? The Baja Coast is 1500 miles ..."

"I was just having a bit of fun with that one kooktastic. I have done many runs here and ba ..."

Thank you The Endless Bummer.

"nice pintail, your eminence..."

"He would totally air-choke you out from afar if you dropped in on him :)"

Most of California's best surf breaks are born from creeks. Here in Santa Barbara, Rincon, Hammond’s, and El Capitan are the standards, but SB’s oldest documented surf break is Mission Creek (documented by faulding photo,1918). Called U'lam by the Chumash and “The Pond” by the local rippers.

Quiksilver pro is now live! sort of shitty waves, but amazing surfers

"I had a really good time from about 3-4:30. It was glassy, the sun would occasionally com ..."

Our vessels, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, are making the arduous trip out of the Southern Ocean, headed through rough seas for a town wholly inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary: Hobart, Tasmania.

It’s still difficult to imagine I won’t be seeing Andy charging huge barrels at Pipeline in the coming weeks, or in Tahiti for years to come. It’s hard to imagine a person you’ve known well being gone. It’s even more difficult to imagine someone who has achieved the things Andy has in surfing, and the invincibility he’s held for many years, being taken off the earth.

Surfer lands first recorded kickflip and wins $10,000 from Volcom (unconfirmed if he won). What do you think he is going to do with the money? "Dude, I can afford to go to Harvard after all".

Aslinda writes: I first read the book “Pipe Dreams” by Kelly Slater when I was 22 years old and desperately striving to write a mini-thesis on my favourite subject– the sport and the man. The autobiography justified my adoration for this amazing athlete and confirmed my underlying suspicion that I’d never make it as a professional surfer.

Dog lovers unleashed their frustration Wednesday as hundreds of people crowded into the first open house to discuss the Golden Gate National Recreation Area's voluminous management plan for man's best friend.

"WOW. I'm glad I'm a cat person right now. is this wrath? sounds a little like wrath but i ..."

"Before I had kids, I would take my dog to the beach, he would swim, tire him self out, and ..."

"@overit3 i miss overit2: http://stokereport.com/users/overit2 overit2 was the nicest of ..."

"im not afraid of dogs. im afraid of people. "

"Here's what I want to do to dog owners that leave dog shit on the beach....... and bags of ..."

The Paskowitz family is perhaps the most famous clan in surfing history. Most longtime surfers are probably familiar with the fascinating nomadic odyssey that the Paskowitz family embarked on—all 11 of them—beginning in the early 1960s and continuing for the better part of two decades.

Props to OceanBeachSurf.