Between storms, the waves really picked up at Steamers Lane, Santa Cruz, CA.
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Steamer’s Lane has a rich surfing history. It is just off a point on the side of cliffs in the West Cliff residential area near downtown Santa Cruz, providing a good opportunity to view the surfing. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is in the lighthouse there. “Steamer Lane” is the preferred form of the name used by the locals. It was at Steamer Jack O’Neil invented the modern surfing wetsuit, “Just because he wanted to surf longer”.
I went out to capture some of the Saturday action:
Having just returned from the smoggy skies and urban jungle of L.A., a walk to the beach was mandatory for the last day of a nice long weekend.
Here are some photos from that walk.
Granted, it’s been a couple of weeks since the pros packed up and headed off to Pipeline for the last event on their years tour. I’m not always the quickest to get photos uploaded, with clients to service, mouths to feed, cars and bikes to work on and in there somewhere I try to have a little fun for myself.
So this morning I’m pulling up some pics from a few weeks ago that I’ve wanted to post up. One of these days I’ll get my watermarking done, but for now.. I’ll just have to trust that nobody finds these compelling enough to steal (here’s hoping).
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