Have you ever wondered why the portrayal of the typical surfer changed so quickly from the disobedient, almost absent-minded perspective to the cool kids we see them as today? The answer lies mostly …

Bunker Spreckels is more of a legend now that he has ever been. We have run Bunker’s bio on this site in the past. We also make numerous references to him. …

Born in Durban, South Africa, Shaun Tomson began surfing at age 10. On a little red surf board in the Indian Ocean Shaun describes surfing as “griping me hard.” Obviously Tomson held on also as …

A conversation with journalist Hunter S. Thompson about his role as an innovator of New Journalism. He also discusses his resurrected novel “The Rum Diary”, which follows some rough and seasoned journalists living in …

Sex – Surf – LSD – Rock & Roll
It is said that we humans are drawn to the sea. Perhaps it is because there was a time that we were as the dolphins; gliding …