"___" is here!

Well done Australia Post, less than a week and they're here. It's a really entertaining film, I'm stoked to be involved. The con...

Maumee Bay State Park

The Black Swamp used to extend along most of this southwestern shoreline of Lake Erie, but much of it has been drained or otherwise convert...

Straits of Mackinac

We skirted the northeastern edge of Lake Michigan in the dark and wound up in St. Ignace for the night. We stayed on the lake and in the m...

Grand Sable Dunes

One of the neatest places to find coastal sand dunes is high on the top of bluffs. The Grand Sable Dunes, west of the town of Grand Marais,...

Miners Beach

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has been on my bucket (beach bucket?) list for along time and, despite this short visit, it remains on it...

Marquette

Apparently, our trip along the south shore of Lake Superior is fated to be gray, and rushed. But we stopped at McCarty Park in Marquette f...

Mackie EPS Sidecut Quad- deal of the summer.

$725. Really. There's a 6' in the works that I'm keeping if no one claims it before it gets here, and as these things are all ha...

Duluth

Duluth (Minnesota) and Superior (Wisconsin) are located on the shores of a back-barrier lagoon at the mouth of the St. Louis River, at the ...

Yellow Bay

Yellow Bay is another site on the east side of Flathead lake that is tucked in behind a small southward pointing headland. The beach is a ...

Blue Bay

Blue Bay is on the eastern shore of Flathead Lake. I was drawn here knowing Flathead Lake had some nice gravel beaches and having read some...

Kids Korner

No really, this is actually a surf and book related post, even if it's a new-fangled form of book. Our good friend Aleks Petrovich, he o...

Ether AND Thread Monthly

Andrew Kidman, photo by Trefz. Bit of a cheat yes, but I dig that photo and both these gents have new projects on the way. Trefz debuted ...

"___"

"___" is a new surf film by Johnny Abegg and Matty Yeates of Byron Bay, Australia. It's not one of those movies with guys goin...

Nextstrom

Go a bit south of here and you'll find this wave (on the right swell). It's frequented by one of the most hard core Simmons fans I&#...

Alki Beach

Alki Beach on a summer day is a great urban beach, crowded with picnics and volleyball and rollerbladers and sunbathers. There are even a ...

Alki Point

Travel and distractions have led me to fall behind. This post and the next date back to a Sunday in June, a low tide, and a walk on one of...