Category: Ocean Sports
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Don’t go whale watching
Don’t go whale watching is what my kiteboarding instructors Brandon and Trevor told me when I first learned. The idea is that when you head out offshore, you are supposed to turn around and tack back in and not “whale watch”, ie, don’t go too far out! Well late this afternoon I went for a…
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Kitesurfing Tres Cruces
I’m in Peru, kitesurfing with the crew from REAL watersports. What an amazing place. We are staying on the beach in Mancora at the superplush Samana Shakra yoga resort and venturing south into the frontier everyday for wind and waves. Our guide “Pulpo” (or “Octopus”, a large former military guy of some sort that travels with…
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Bondi 8am
Today’s picture of Bondi beach from Aquabumps;
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World’s longest yacht race starts in T-minus 7 days
At the starting gun on July 31st, 10 clippers will set sail from Southampton, UK, on a 40,000-mile circumnavigation. The Clipper Round the World race is not only the longest yacht race, but also the only to provide identical stripped-down, 68-foot boats to each team, ensuring that budget or vessel gives no one an unfair…
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How to take pictures of pygmy seahorses
Dr Richard Smith knows a thing or two about pygmy seahorses – those ever-so-cute and tiny members of the seahorse family. While researching for his PhD, he spent hundreds of hours watching them in their natural habitats clinging to coral fans on reefs in Southeast Asia. And he’s spent a long time watching people watching…
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Clark Little catching waves on camera
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaNh7BHrMRI&feature=related[/youtube] Award-winning photographer Clark Little specializes in capturing breathtaking images of waves. And here’s how he does it. (I just got back from a surfing weekend in Devon – the waves weren’t quite as big as this but I can dream.)
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Surfer Babes
The top hits in a Google search for “female surfers” include a list of The Nine Hottest Female Surfers and an article at AskMen.com which muses that females have attracted more fans to the sport because, after all, “what red-blooded male doesn’t like to watch sexy female surfers prep on the beach and get wet…
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Jack McCoy’s view from back stage
Award-winning surf filmmaker Jack McCoy has a very fresh perspective on surfing. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtjRiV3-TA[/youtube]
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Ben Wilson kitesurfing a huge wave
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcUOOi_E8k[/youtube]
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Surfing with the enemy
In honor of international surfing day 2011, here is a great video about surfing in Cuba. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQO2FCepgTE[/youtube]