Blog Entries

the banana thieves

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0100

Cantering with the speed of a getaway car, half a dozen horses b-lined for the cluster of palms I sat under. With no regard to my presence, they began scavenging around the trees for left over coconut pieces. Five minutes into their mission, one of them picked u [...]

check this kid out

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0100

Danielle and I had the opportunity to build an ongoing video blog for one of the pro kids down here. (Carlos Munoz) I've mentioned him before, but now you guys can finally see how good this kid truly is. Here's the link to his site: www.carlosmunozsurfing.blogspot.com
and here is a glimpse of what you are going to see. Enjoy!

ps if you haven't seen his heats from the Volcom Pipe Pro, they are w [...]

I heart Dry Season Costa Rica part 2

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0100

If you are wondering who that goofy foot kid surfing so well in the beginning of this video, that woud be Jadson Andre. The Oakley team came back down here for their year in a row. Once again I am amazed at how well Jadson is surfing. He's been labeled a one trick kind of guy, but watch him in person and his versatility is amazing. These are just the first of his clips. I will include the rest in the next [...]

I heart Dry Season Costa Rica

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0100

Barely conscious, I shuffled into the kitchen and poured a cup of strong coffee. Still shuffling, with slightly increased speed, I managed to make the 100 yard walk to the sand to check the surf. a driftwood bench conveniently washed up to a cluster of palm trees, where i awkwardly found a seat.
Th [...]

Rainy Season Blues part 2

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:00:00 +0100

A few days later one of the local pro kids we film told us he was leaving for the ALAS Latin Pro tour surf competitions in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Danielle had wanted to enter comps for a while, but always managed to miss them by a week or two due to short notice, or no notice at all. Aside from the WQS events, Women's contests are really hard to come by.
We were slightly heartbroken when he first told us- while Nicaragua is only a few hours away [...]

Rainy Season Blues part 1

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:00:00 +0100

After a lovely seven week visit home in RI and SD during prime summer season - catching up with loved ones and enjoying the umbrella packed beaches boasting waveless shores- we returned to Pura Vida land with new inspiration. Our "sponsors" made it possible to get a sick new video camera that could also make magazine quality stills. &nbs [...]

Chillen in Las Flores

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:00:00 +0100

The trip into Las Flores was delayed a week and by the time our leaving day came up we were so ready to get out of El Zonte it was ridiculous. It was mainly due to our room having no privacy, an uncomfortable air mattress, and no fan to keep from sweating to death in the evening when the wind died. The ride came last minute, with another big swell looming, I met a guy in the lineup named William from the canary islands who was willing to pitch in and take a taxi there.

T [...]

PB Surf Club's 13th Annual Contest Coming

rlsteadham@mac.com — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:00:00 +0100

To sign up and pay online go to:

https://www.pacificbeachsurfclub.org/dnn/SummerClassic.aspx

History of the Pacific Beach Surf Club: The Book

rlsteadham@mac.com — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:00:00 +0100

As the newly-elected "Historian" of the Pacific Beach Surf Club, I've embarked on a long-term process of compil [...]

Ramshackle Point, El Salvador

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Tue, 03 May 2011 01:00:00 +0100

I'm writing this on a pretty cloudy Saturday afternoon. You can tell rainy season is starting here because we occasionally get evening rains and everything got really green. We are in a small town with a little point about the size of the main point at san miguel (Baja.) It's made from the cobble stones off a creek-like river that runs out the top of the point. The locals have built their hostels and restaurants right up to the very water line [...]

See ya later Costa!

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0100

I am writing this blog from our room in El Sal. The last bit of time in Costa was nice, but we were ready for a change. The daily walks up the beach and long filming hours and hot walks back in the middle of the day were slowly killing us. We just didn't have the energy to cook and make proper meals so bland rice and beans and bland pasta with lentils with the same seasonings day in and day out was starting to get really old. We also were craving a wave with a consistent sect [...]

blathering bloggerskyte

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0100

It is 1:55 on a pretty darn Hot Thursday afternoon. Dry season here can be brutal if you are walking two miles in the middle of the day back to home after surfing and filming for six hours. As for the surfing itself, Danielle and I are both so focused on getting a few specific clips on film that we are crashing a lot and sometimes and not having as much fun as we normally would when you are just cruising and just content to have fun. Occasionally we will go an entire session and only g [...]

TGIF (Thank God Its February!)

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:00:00 +0100

February 19th 6:53pm
It was a lazy saturday today. The morning extreme low tides prevented surfing out front and it was too big to surf up the beach and the wrong swell for terraza. Instead, we enjoyed our own version of a midday matinee and watched the movie inception which I thought was a great flick!!! If you had a vehicle though and the gas money to drive, there were some waves to be had from this swell. Barranca went off, Quepos went off...Yesterday I talked to a buddy [...]

coming home

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:00:00 +0100

(Friday Feb. 4th 6:05pm)
I am writing this from the bed of our cozy little room in Hermosa The room comes with A.C. and mini fridge and shelves to store stuff so this is one of the better rooms we have had in awhile. We left RI just as it was going into massive cold weather and came back to find beautiful not too hot conditions down here with great waves. As we drove in from the airport through those mountains there was a feeling of warmth spreading through my heart and soul. We we [...]

Malibu Express

majr5@cox.net — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100

The shot above was done in my backyard around 1991. (I wrote the story below around 1996. It was taken from the Viejos South Bay Surf Riders site. )

Hawk in his "study" about '91. Not long after this shot was taken, he was cleaning up the rafters of this soon to be pool room. Only then it was a [...]

Surfboards

majr5@cox.net — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100

Velzy Custom from 1991. As I remember it, Barry Jones and I had gone up to see "Hawk" at his home in San Clemente. He was busy out in the back yard shaping bay. Cleaning up this nine-stringer beauty. Kind of grousing about the guy who had originally ordered the blank and shape backing out of the deal. This according to Barry who had many "irons in the fire" with Velzy. And I recall after [...]

chillen with the family on both coasts

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100

It is 7:18pm on a sleet filled Tuesday here in Rhode Island. I just got out of the jacuzzi which felt really nice in the rain with a beer in hand and snow on the ground. I spent all day editing down our newest blog video and finishing a book I’d been reading (the return of Merlin-Deepak Chopra) Dinner is almost ready and I’m just taking a moment to relax and breathe this all in. We leave in five days and I’m exhausted and feel like we just got here. We flew into Boston [...]

December sessions and coming home for the holidays

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100

It is Friday Jan. 7th at 4:30pm as I'm writing this. Danielle and I just got home after a fun little surf at a little reef wave between South Bird and P.B. We almost didn't surf today. We got to the beach this morning to find no places except for blacks picking up the swell we had and blacks was packed. Knowing the La Jolla reefs would be crowded we gave them a miss and on whim checked this little reef and found it really fun. The water here is cold though and mixed with a long [...]

Blog to the Future: Photos

garylynn17@hotmail.com — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0100