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All the sun that shines

April 12, 2011

It all started when I saw one of my photos posted by someone else on Magicseaweed. It was quite upsetting momentarily but it was all easily and quickly sorted by the chaps at the ‘weed’ (who didn’t want to get their asses sued) and I got a nice apology from a grom (who probably didn’t […]

Goat boats go home

April 5, 2011

Nobody knows who rode the first wave for pleasure or where. However for the Polynesian people of the south Pacific, it is known that surfing has been an important part of their culture for the past 1,000 years and probably longer. Then along came captain Cook and his visit to Hawaii let the surfing gene […]

Horsemen, apocalypse and catflaps

March 12, 2011

As the four horsemen of the apocalypse saddle up and prepare to lay waste to our beautiful blue planet it is perhaps time to remind ourselves that not all waves travel at 500 mph and some are associated with joy rather than desolation. Sequence: Stuart Campbell out of the cat flap at Croyde last autumn. […]

Fads, fashion and flexability.

March 8, 2011

This is a shameless plug for my friends new yoga barn, which has opened recently here in North Devon. http://www.breathingyoga.co.uk/breathing_space/ I was thinking how funny it is that yoga is considered a girlie thing to do in this country. I guess it has this perception in the roots of all these ridiculous fads that girls […]

Still Wandering

March 3, 2011

Stuey Campbell pumps a sweet little frontside grab in front of Morte Stone Firstly, a big thanks you to everyone who bought a first edition copy of the book “The Essential Contentment of Futile Wanderings”. The news is that it is now SOLD OUT! Never fear, the second edition is now available and has been […]

I wandered lonely as a rogue wave

February 27, 2011

It’s taken a while but I’ve finally found time to sort through the photos from last Sunday. A big clean swell and one of the lowest tides of the year combined to produce some epic waves in unusual places…. (Click on images for the bigger picture) Oyster Falls put on a show And the […]

Tubular Swells

February 23, 2011

That was a great film. I remember sitting in grom- like awe of the pictures flashing on a makeshift screen in Braunton village hall with about 70 other surfers screaming and hooting at every barrel and big wave take-off. This was back in the seventies when surf news filtered through to the north Devon community […]

No public access beyond this point

February 17, 2011

The internet community was wild with eager expectations, tomorrow was already being dubbed as Big Wednesday and it was was going to be epic. The long term prediction didn’t waiver and as if to confirm it – the swell had bumped that afternoon and was still building. That evening however, the weather forecast showed […]

Mid winter surf gold

February 13, 2011

Plenty of swell around this weekend and pumping waves in north west Ireland by the looks of things. Lots of swell here in north Devon too and lots of miles clocked up by surfers and photographers alike; checking, searching and dodging the rain showers. With bad light and contrary tides I was thinking that […]

Postcard from Nicaragua

February 7, 2011

Good to hear from Wooly ripper Stuart Campbell, who Facebooked from Nicaragua to say how stoked he was to be on the cover of ‘Wanderings’ . He is there with Alan Stokes on a photo shoot for Carve Magazine. Which gives me a good excuse to plug the book again and celebrate the tenth sale! […]