The road to fail is paved with good intentions. Here’s a $120,000, 16 feet awkward surfer statue in some little Cali town that’s been relentlessly humiliated by locals for being weak. It’s been clowned, drag-a-fied, jack-o-lanterned and impressively papier-mâchéd into the gaping jaws of a giant white shark. The consensus: the “Cardiff Kook” pranksters are artists and not vandals.
Parting Shot: Man Down
Surfers gathered in Hawaii’s Waimea Bay, alternately riding and wiping out on 30 foot waves at The Eddie competition yesterday.
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Tropical Storm Danny is gaining strength as it moves towards the eastern coast of the U.S. and will create terrible conditions for pretty much everyone except surfers this weekend. It’s expect to turn into a “full-blown hurricane” and could create “10-foot high waves and dangerous riptides.” |NYP|
With waves already swelling, surfers up and down the East Coast are excited about the weekend arrival of Hurricane Bill (track it here). New York City’s Parks Department on the other hand is panicking and closed down many of the city’s beaches today due to optimal surfing conditions: “high waves, heavy surf and rip currents.” With the ordinary folk’s propensity to sink like stones even when the conditions are calm, maybe this was a good call.
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Just one surfing ticket has been issued this year on Long Island and Rockaway Beach by city and state parks department. And now that sole summons has been tossed out, further evidence that authorities are backing off ticketing surfers in supposedly off limits areas.
So that whole stereotype about Australians being hardcore and stuff? Totally true. A surfer that lost his hand in a shark attack in February has returned to the water and enjoyed it. |TimesOnline|
Working with local fishermen and environmentalists, Rockaway Beach surfers are protesting efforts to build a “60-acre natural gas terminal 13 miles off the coast of Long Beach, Long Island.” Tomorrow, International Surfing Day, they’re planning to paddle out and rally against the facility and “its effect on the ocean environment.” |NYT|
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