With the concurrent arrival of fall and the season’s first northwest swell, which brought large waves to Santa Cruz’s world-famous stretch of coastline this past week, it’s the perfect time to consider being part of the action in the water. Whether you’re brand new to it or just need to scrape off some rust, Lookout has your complete guide to finding the stoke.
Surfing
Posted inCoast Life
PHOTOS: Surf season opens with first solid northwest groundswell of the fall
The ocean was alive Tuesday as the first Northern Hemisphere groundswell of the fall poured into the coast of Santa Cruz County. Lookout was there to capture the scene.
Posted inRecreation & Sports
As tropical storm bears down on Tokyo Olympics, at least one set of athletes is feeling swell: The surfers
With Tropical Storm Nepartak swirling off the coast of Japan, Tokyo Olympic surfers are looking forward to bigger and better waves in the days ahead. “There’s actually a lot of opportunities out there because the [storm] has brought in a bit of swell.”
Posted inRecreation & Sports
Surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing are now Olympic sports — how will they be judged?
How exactly will surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, karate and other newly added sports be scored during the Tokyo Olympics? How about the return of baseball and softball?
Posted inCoast Life
A surf tribe rallies for Ráine: ‘When your baby is diagnosed with cancer, you need extra family’
Before she had even turned 1, Ráine Huszar of Santa Cruz had undergone 14 rounds of chemotherapy, each round lasting three weeks, and tallied more than 16 hospital admissions. Her family has gotten positive news in recent weeks and those at Saturday’s Sharks Cove Surf Classic hope to see her smiling face on the sand.
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Historic surfboards to be inducted into Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
Three surfboards from three different eras in local surfing’s rich history — including one that once belonged to Fred Hunt, one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club in 1936 — have their moment in a ceremony to be held Saturday.
Posted inCapitola & Soquel, Eastside / Live Oak / Pleasure Point, Guides, Westside / Downtown
Into the blue: Your guide to Santa Cruz coastal exploration
Whether in a kayak or on a stand-up paddleboard, the waters just off Santa Cruz County are swimming with possibilities. Take it easy in the Yacht Harbor? Cruise around a wharf? Explore the wilds off the Westside? Venture to Shark Park and the Cement Ship? Lookout has you covered no matter what you choose.
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Greg Noll, SoCal surfer and legendary big-wave rider, dies
Long before tow-in surfing, Greg Noll conquered Hawaii’s monster waves. The legendary big-wave rider has died at 84.
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Great white shark bites swimmer off Gray Whale Beach near Pacifica; male victim in serious condition
The 35-year-old man was swimming off the San Mateo County coast just south of Pacifica and just north of Montara. The beach was ordered closed.
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Far from the Olympic limelight, the waves of Fukushima are ‘healing’ for local surfers
Fukushima was hoping the Olympics would make people forget the 2011 nuclear disaster. But the best surfers in the world will not be riding the waves along the region’s coast.