Bold moves!

But to float real forward thinking, progressive, non-chicken plans like holding a series of surf events on Oahu’s North Shore in, like, six months’ time and also holding a big wave event at the iconic Jaws when the winter swells start bashing, also like, six months’ time is where our World Surf League plants its flag today.

Theoretically.

For a very fine source from deep within the vacated belly of Santa Monica’s beast has declared that “the WSL is intent on holding the Triple Crown and also Peahi, if there is enough swell.”

Bold?

Audacious?

You tell me.

I was thinking, while ripping the early swells of the Coronavirus Apocalypse, that this moment here could be professional surfing’s moment.

Sport cancelled.

Life cancelled.

Fun cancelled.

Professional surfing could have, should have filled that void. A boat in the Mentawis, a gathering on Tavarua, Snapper, Bells, Western Australia, anywhere that could have had them, would have had them.

Cornwall, England.

ESPN was broadcasting baseball re-runs. It would have paid top dollar to broadcast live professional surfing in Cornwall, England.

It has been the only thing co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff wanted.

More eyeballs than football.

And it was completely botched by the weak-willed Santa Monica bastards who failed to realized their moment, going all in against the now accepted reality that Coronavirus is not an indiscriminate mass killer but rather flu-lite.

Oops.

Will heads roll?

They totally should.

But here’s to December and the Triple Crown.

Allegedly.

Welcome to the Summer of Bummer.

Summer is here, in the northern hemisphere, with its coconut scented breezes, happy youth freed from the bondage of school and water-based activities. Oh, no one will be able to smell those coconut scented breezes, as masks are still mandatory around much of the industrialized world, the youth are not happy, having been restricted from learning, and water-based activities have been limited to knee-deep wading in Delaware where a shark hit on a young surfer has shocked and scared the already shocked and scared.

Delaware, not known for surfing, is also not known for shark bites, having seen its last nibble in 2014, but days ago and let us learn more immediately.

Officials have closed Herring Point to surfing and swimming until further notice due to a possible shark bite that happened. At this time, beachgoers are also restricted to knee-deep waters around the Cape Henlopen bathhouse.

We’re told that just before 1 p.m., a 12-year-old boy surfing off Herring Point sustained puncture wounds to one of his legs and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Officials say it was initially reported as a shark bite, however the bite mark is being reviewed by state and fisheries experts to determine if it was from a shark or possible other creature.

Natural Resource Police Park Rangers and lifeguards are patrolling the beach area to warn visitors to stay in shallow water.

Can 2020 get any worse?

Wading is such a terrible, terrible bummer. I had a friend, once, with a paranoid mother who only let him wade. My heart broke for him like it does for all of Delaware’s children.

Well, at least they have Sleepy Joe.

"I think everyone’s going to be looking up going, ‘I want to be up there!'"

I am no economist, but if I had to make serious pronouncements about the landscape, post Covid-19, I would say that commercial real-estate is going to be a real bummer. People have decided they no longer have to be in an “office” to “work.” Every other business is officially out of and every other person is deathly afraid of human scum.

My feelings about residential real-estate are not so bearish, especially when it comes to unique projects called The Surf, backed by a Backstreet Boy, and set to soar over Kelly Slater’s hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Shall we learn more?

The Surf property is located on North Atlantic Avenue between Minutemen Causeway and North First Street, just north of Coconuts on the Beach and Beach Shack.

The 25-unit structure will rise from the long-vacant site of Ocean Dunes, a vacation rental complex that got battered by Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004. Crews demolished the damaged Ocean Dunes complex in 2005.

Prices range from $800,000 for a 1,770-square-foot unit with three bedrooms to $2.2 million for a 4,080-square-foot, four-bedroom penthouse, listed by Alyssa Boyd, broker-owner of Sand Dollar Realty of Brevard.

The Surf features two-car garages for every condo, oceanfront balconies with glass railings, floor-to-ceiling windows, 11-foot ceilings and a two-story lobby.

“Anything that’s new and fresh around here, I get excited about. We’re bringing a slice of Miami-South Beach. Cocoa Beach is a hidden gem to me. That’s why I relocated my family here, instead of Orlando,” Howie D said.

“The fact that we decided to change the pool, from being on the beach side to the front side on A1A: I think that’s going to be a hot spot. I think everyone’s going to be looking up going, ‘I want to be up there,’ “ he said.

The Surf will also be a twelve minute walk away from the Kelly Slater statue.

Will you invest?

Will Kelly or has he repatriated to Australia?