From page one where I first met Surf Dude, I fell hard in love. “I didn’t mean to be famous,” the vagabond starts his story, “I’m just your average yellow dog that was once loved, but became a drifter ...

Canoe surfing, particularly in an outrigger, is an ancient Polynesian tradition. The plastic, cookie-cutter kayaks you find at Costco and lining the beach at Sandals Resorts, those are not in ...

Bob Levy grew up in El Salvador but discovered surfing in California, and he vividly remembers the day he returned to his homeland and hit the beach with a stiff, 10-foot surfboard under his arm.

I have lived a relatively long life, zeroing in on my 76th birthday on Sept. 29. In terms of being a surfer, I am an old dude, almost always the oldest person in the lineup when I paddle out. I feel ...

It wasn’t when I noticed the gray hair leaching into the corners of my beard or when I discovered my mid-length was getting dinged up while my shortboards gathered dust. This totally un-radical ...

Some darned good surfers boat out to Santa Rosa Island to surf point breaks and certain reef breaks, but they are not the best surfer dudes out there. Imagine a towering 25-foot, perfectly formed, ...