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RECENT SESSIONS-2008
-Photography and words by CTurkington
TEXAS-GULF COAST
May 24 - Texas State Surfing Championships Photo Gallery
MEXICO
PACIFIC COAST
The Ten Dollar Surfboard -more- What would you do with an old thruster that has tail cancer? I'm not sure about you, but Paolo Schulte bought one for 100 pesos, scooped out the damaged tail and center skeg, sealed it and surfed it! Check out some rich moves on a cheap board,
Sayulita Rippers Photo Gallery Sequence madness from a few guys of the Sayulita crew. Check Adan Hernandez doing some sick little shove-its, Dylan Southworth gets some pits and Adrian also floats in for a quick snap.
Some more shots from December-January. Photo Gallery I'm trying to get caught up with the photo galleries. Connection speed is still quite a pisser, plus i am working on a few other projects. As usual, this site is a place for me to put outtakes and shots that didn't make it somewhere else. Work comes first, then comes this site!
Surf is starting to come back up (mid-February) and i'm sure there will be tons more photos on the way! Hang in there!! One way or another, I'll keep getting some fresh content for this site. Thanks for the views and I hope you all are scoring wherever you are at.
Spicey Tex-Mex - Photo Gallery Early in January, I ran into Frank Floyd and his crew of Texas rippers. Joining Nathan, Micah and J.R. was Jaime, formely of Sayulita but currently living on Kauai. This group of B.H.P. rippers are still borderline drinking age, but yet the beaches in Central Mexico are old stomping grounds for them. The surf was small when they hit up this spot, but they got plenty of shack time at a different beach for most of their trip. Having seen them surf overhead before, I only could only wish that there would have been some size in the water while they were here. Oh well...they rip the small kine too!
Random Surf- Photo Gallery Alright, so it's been awhile since i've uploaded some shots. Oh well...nothing comes easy around here. If it's not a connection problem, it's an electricity situation. I'll keep updating this site as much as possible, but I'm getting frustrated with connection speed. No telling when the next gallery will go up. Lots of fresh stuff from surf this late January. Just keep checking the site! Sorry for being slow about getting some shots online, but just remember that this site is a labor of love, a hobby of mine. The complaint department is on the eighth floor, across the lobby and through the window. :-)
1/14 Photo Gallery You should have been here tomorrow. That's all I can say to all my Texas buddies that split after new year's. Yeah, I know...not all of us are able to take vacations based on swell maps but what a difference a little west makes in a north swell. At least it wasn't flat during anyone's visit. After surfing head high and under for almost a month, some size finally found it's way down here. Nothing crazy, but it did take away 30 feet of beach right in front of my camp. Should be exciting for me if another sizeable swell hits. I may have to move...
-2007-South Padre Island-
12/12 Photo Gallery A cold front is bearing down on South Padre today. The current swell has gone down since yesterday and will soon be blown to shreds when the front arrives. A late afternoon session turns out to be decent and gets a little better for evening. Shawn was out testing a new board, so I did some testing of my own with the camera.
12/11 Photo Gallery First session I've had in quite awhile. Didn't take too many pics, but I squeezed a few off just minutes before sunset. It was a windy session, but the outside was cranking if you picked the right one. Today was the first time I've ever been sprayed with buckets of chunk from a longboard. Thanks for sharing part of that killer wave Vern! And by that I mean slicing off the top third of it and sending it back over the shoulder to shower me. ha ha...
11/16 Photo Gallery Winds have already shifted back to the SE. Check out some pics from an afternoon and evening session. The Texas Clipper passed by, on it's way to a new home at the bottom of the gulf.
11/14 Photo Gallery Finally some peeling waves! By late afternoon a small groundswell finds it's way to the island. A cold front is on the way so winds will be blasting out of the north soon. It'll be victory at sea in the morning but we'll see what happens after the initial chaos.
11/13 Photo Gallery Tiny surf...
11/12 Photo Gallery Consistent waist high waves today. No real jump in swell size yet.
11/11 Photo Gallery Waves were bunk for the weekend but by late Sunday afternoon hints of a building wind swell started to show.
11/2 Photo Gallery Slowly fading swell, shifting East winds...
10/31 Photo Gallery Plenty of swell in the water, but very unfavorable winds. For three days, a decent ENE swell was coming in at 5-7 foot with long period characteristics (about 9 sec.). Each morning offered side-offshore winds, from the NNW, but by lunch-time the winds would shift to the dreaded NNE chop producing sloppiness. Any direction is better than NE! Oh well, the bump was in the Gulf and while much of it was on the horizon heading south, plenty of rideable waves were wrapping into South Padre and Boca Chica for a few days. The swell is now (11/1)on it's way down, but if the wind would just cooperate a little, then the inside could very well fire up at waist to chest.
10/18 A little bit smaller than yesterday, but still fun and with nearly offshore winds. Photo Gallery
10/16 Winds have slacked off and turned easterly, the swell jumped up and the sunshine is flowing. Photo Gallery
10/15 Small and very strong south wind. Just a couple pics from this session.
Check out some killer South Padre water-shots taken by Mark Devillier! MORE
10/2-4 A nice swell rolls in to help kick off October. Even if the tropics haven't given us exactly what we wanted, the cold fronts are right around the corner.
Photo Gallery Surf has been flowing in since the beginning of May and just about everyone was gettting multiple sessions any day they chose to hit the beach.
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