However, there is a whole range of islands across the globe that are home to some dazzling surf setups, with the remote surf ...

Long before "Blue Crush" gave surfer girls their 15 minutes of fame, I stood in my local library with a book called "Girl in the Curl: 100 Years of Women in Surfing." The librarian, a gray-haired, ...

Forget Malibu or the North Shore. Next summer, you can catch a wave in Palm Desert, 100 miles from the nearest ocean. After years of delays, DSRT Surf, the Coachella Valley's second surf destination, ...

Surfing is hard enough without adding in the stress of feeling like a nuisance just for being a beginner in the water among seasoned vets in the art of hanging ten. There’s so much to remember, like ...

Surf instructor Ru Hill opened the Innocent Surf School in Nosara, Costa Rica, in 2007, with three longboards that he drove to Guiones Beach every day in a car that served as his office and storefront ...

Catch a wave off the California coast, pedal a mountain bike in Utah’s red rock canyons or try your gloved hand at falconry in Vermont. The kids may be out of school, but the summer season presents a ...

There are two main types of beach vacations: The kind where you lie on the beach and wade in and out of the water when you need to cool off, and the kind where you take the opportunity to become one ...

From Tavaru Island Resort in Fiji to California’s Tower 23, these are no ordinary surf shacks. Check out our favorite 15 lodges for huge swells. There are few things more refreshing than surf lodges.

Perched on a bluff in the still El Salvador night, I did something that most surfers would never admit to: I prayed for less surf. Despite State Department advisories to strongly reconsider travel to ...

Oahu's North Shore is famed for its surf barrels, but Hawaii's newest surfing experience is much less intimidating. Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and it was Hawaiian legend Duke Kahanamoku - a ...

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