Bah humbug.
Cocoa Beach, there on Florida’s space coast, is known for two things: Kelly Slater and its Surfing Santas. The former, a multi-time world surfing champion who brings joy to middle-aged men by defying the odds of aging and continuing to remain vaguely relevant, and the latter, flooding the sea around Christmas time in traditional Santa garb and showcasing the inviting warmth of the region.
Rubbing the noses of those shivering in icy Wisconsin or chilly upstate New York in their whimsical warm water play.
Except.
This year Scrooge himself is dropping an arctic bomb on the proceedings, mocking the very idea of temperate.
Weather forecasters are predicting temperatures to be in the upper 20s (-3.8C) on Christmas Eve with freezing cold winds buffeting the whole business.
Brendan Schaper, a meteorologist at the NWS Melbourne station, declared, “It’s going to be pretty chilly. Gusts could reach up to 25 mph. Definitely going to be a cold one. It’ll be pretty memorable, I think.”
Pretty memorable as Surfing Santas die, en masse, due hypothermia. Falling asleep on the sand while children try to revive without success.
While the event usually draws thousands, Surfing Santa founder George Trosset said, “We’ll be lucky to get 300 surfers. Obviously, you’ll need to wear a wetsuit if you’re going in the water. It’s that cold air that’ll get you. I’ve talked to a couple of people who said they’ll be wearing booties and gloves with their wetsuitsOne person even said they’re going to wear a wetsuit hood – you never see those in Florida. But it’d be a good idea to keep your ears warm.”
Dead.
They will all be dead.
Bah humbug.
RIP.
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Damn… I want to comment on the Pipe feuds, but the comment secco below is a hodgepodge of several articles it seems. That or I’m going mad. Strange new world below the line somedays.
‘burbs
mix in a big south? well, depends on location…local knowledge…intervals. liability.
grunions
Strong parallels with all of these BG commentator-authored articles can be drawn with the late stages of the Roman empire, where the ruling Roman class made the decision that it would be better to bring some of the barbarians into the tent in an effort to keep the rest of the barbarians out of the tent (spoiler alert: the barbarians won in the end).
Will history repeat itself? Is Chas the modern-day Nero? Is Derek every bit as bad as Caligula? Will SurfAds and Negatron war against each other to fill the forthcoming power vacuum like Augustus and Mark Antony? All will be revealed in Beachgrit Season 9…
300 dead Santa’s?
If they dig a trench in the correct position and direction and bury them in it on the beach.
Well, one person 300 dead Santa’s could be a very surfable high tide bank.
I hate booties more than condoms.
Very much with you.
https://pleated-jeans.com/w…
TO BE LEFT ALONE!
Sand from DY point to the surfclub
igual you pinche guey
Some peeps just don’t know the difference between wave height and tides…one does not beget the other…
Forecasters are calling for large King Tide surf to hit the Orange County coast this week.
The larger than average waves are expected to arrive Wednesday with
the largest tides reaching over 7 feet by Friday and Saturday, according
to the National Weather Service.
The weather service says the surf will be at its highest between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.
The big surf is expected to impact several areas along the Orange
County coast, including the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach and Sunset
Beach.
Here are the King Tide times in Southern California for this week:
Thursday 12/22:
High tide 6.8 ft at 7:25 AM. Low tide -1.5 ft at 2:47 PM.
(KTLA Weather)
Ya kinda clueless, also super low tides, I could see like the whole reef at a local spot yesterday at low tide, it was pretty cool.
I just hope the manatees stay warm and nobody writes Trump on their back again. Cruel.
Did you resource this article from the depths of the “Nobody Gives a Shit” files?
i gotta menorah for you
Sorry, Christmas is cancelled! Got to send all the money to ukraine, and pay for all the pos that don’t work.
Speaking from experience and forever intermediate-ness in colder climes, hood should always come before boots and gloves – more bang for the buck. Like fins forward with board on roof, its just what you do.
One of the easiest ways to spot a kook is a guy with gloves and no hood. One exception being Slater himself who seems to rock the gloves/no hood quite often!
Michael Jackson wore gloves, sans hood
You got me runnin’, goin’ out of my mind
You got me thinkin’ that I’m wastin’ my time
Don’t bring me down
No, no, no, no, no, ooh-ooh-hoo
I’ll tell you once more before I get off the floor
Don’t bring me down, Thriila!
Glove*
hood before boots – no way
Booties first,. Hard to surf with numb feet.Then hood. Never worn gloves in my life.
I don’t like the feel of the board in booties. I find the hood keeps the body warm and that keeps the feet and the hands warm.
The hardest thing thing for me about going to Hawaii for the first time was surfing without booties.
I mentioned it on here before but my friend was the same way , and was wearing booties in a Surfer Mag centerfold at restaurants with booties on haha.