Surfing Icy Bay, Alaska
Situated on the Eastern edge of the Gulf of Alaska with a long sand spit protruding into the bay and miles of beach on either side Icy Bay will catch any Alaska map surfers imagination. View Larger Map Even better than dreaming – Fellow Alaskan surfer, Alex Wilson, shared a report of his session there [...]
Moon Tubes at 2:30am
No doubt we aren’t the only ones to have entertained a dream or two of surfing by moonlight. During the heart of a long Alaskan winter it’s only natural to consider this…with only eight hours of daylight and a 10-20ft tide fluctuation you’d think the chances of the surf peaking at night are relatively high. [...]
Fly-out surfing a remote Alaskan break
Yet another successful fly-in fly-out surfari to the Petrof Glacier break. Something to put in the back of your mind for the next time you are scheming on flying over a coastal mountain range for a day at a remote surf break . . . What you see on your side is likely not what [...]
Surfing Alaska – January 22nd, 2010
January 2010 was a pretty slow month for us Homer, Alaska surfers. We were eager when a swell finally showed up on the 22nd. Honestly, I can’t remember much about these sessions - judging by the small number of photos, I must have spent most the swell window in the water recovering from the preceding [...]
Surfing Petrof Glacier 1.8.10
As promised, this post is the meat and potatoes of our last fly-out surf trip to Petrof Glacier, Alaska. Check out the first half of this adventure, which is just getting to this remote beach, in my last post – Surfing Petrof Glacier 1.8.10 – Getting There. With the short daylight of the Alaskan winter [...]
Surfing Petrof Glacier 1.8.10 – Getting There
In 2009 our dreams of surfing this particular remote break in Alaska were realized, several times actually. All told I think there was about seven attempts at getting there and maybe four successes. The spot is called Petrof Glacier because the beach we surf is nearby the glacier and it’s the easiest way to locate [...]
Slushy Surf in Alaska
Surfing in Alaska we get to see a lot of unusual things. These waves in Anchor Point a few days ago were cool, really cool, almost frozen, like a salt slurpee. I was mesmerized, in a desperate effort to try and capture this sight, despite the flat light, I shot some video and photos: We [...]
What did santa surf?
It’s become a bit of a tradition to go surfing on Christmas day here in Alaska. Well, at least for about five of us in Homer anyhow. Every year we wonder if Santa will show up and what kind of wave slider he’ll be using. Not too surprising then when he did make an appearance [...]
Surfing Alaska – November 18th, 2009
It’s been blowing snow for the last couple days, 4 inches this morning alone. The storm surf was epic yesterday- So epic that none of us even tried to paddle out after watching a few set waves on the Homer Spit that were about 10ft on the face. If it wasn’t 23ºF and blowing snow [...]
Aren’t we all thankful for tubes?
I’ve been looking forward to posting a few of these shots from a sunrise surf session in Alaska. Looking through them here on Thanksgiving day brought up thoughts of stuffing – stuffing tubes that is. Some nice walls, some awesome closeouts and a few perfect rides.
Surfing Alaska – October 29th, 2009
The last of a nice clean swell and a dramatic end to an early winter day. Mike and Randy got a sunset surf session in- complete with a nice offshore breeze.
Surfing Alaska – winter ’09 icebreaker
It’s been a while – But that’s the way it always feels when we start surfing again after a summer of the doldrums at my hometown break – Homer, Alaska. After spending a couple cold hours standing on the beach photographing my buddies surfing over the last week I think my SurfAlaska.net stoke has started [...]
Petrof glacier surf – pt. 2
I still haven’t even began editing the photos from our two recent trips to Petrof Glacier, but I can’t help but share a few of the images that keep catching my eye as when I take a moment to flip through the collection.
Petrof glacier surf – pt. 1
Let the story telling begin. Years of talking, drooling, hypothesizing, dreaming, thinking, imagining . . Petrof Glacier, so close yet so far away. From Homer this spot is only a 20 minute bushplane flight away. Just on the other side of those pesky mountains that so easily block the ocean swell from hitting our beaches. [...]
Surfing Seward Alaska – March 26th, ’09
A break that you can drive to in Seward? I don’t recall when or where I first heard of this, it sounded a bit mystical at the time. After making the 7hr round trip drive twice for nothing, that reputation was well established. When Mike asked if I wanted to make the trip again, I [...]
Surfing Alaska – March 24th, 2009
Just another day surfing in Alaska. . . Not many photos from this morning, I must have been heading into the water myself. Looks like there were some nice waves! The next post on here is going to be reporting on a recent trip to Seward where we scored some sweet waves.
Surfing Alaska – March 20th, 2009
Sitting out in the lineup we look at each other and smile. Yes, it’s March 20th, we are surfing for what must be the 5th time this week!? Surely, this one is our last session before the summer doldrums, yes, the honorary nod, must be, yep, better enjoy it while we can eh?
Surfing Alaska – March 16th, 2009
This is a short one. I didn’t shoot a lot of photos this morning before heading into the water, but a couple of these wave shots I know will be appreciated by the surfers out there. Will we ever tire of looking at empty waves, imagining . . . bottom turn, cut back, to the [...]
Surf Archive – January 26th, 2006
Just a little something from the archive for a flat Sunday afternoon.
Surfing Alaska – March 15, 2009
Finally back at it here on SurfAlaska.net. Thanks for your patience, and welcome to all the new followers. We just had a couple nice days of surf in Homer, Alaska over the weekend. I managed to catch some photos and some waves. After a pretty long dry spell for me, I was mostly catching waves, [...]
Surfing a Cook Inlet blizzard
Mike had been watching the weather, maybe a little too closely. The waves in Homer were suffering from a 30mph onshore wind but the buoys and weather stations had him thinking that something might be going on up the road 40 miles at the mouth of the Ninilchik River or Deep Creek. It was such [...]
Surfing Alaska – December 31, 2008
2008 ended in style for a few Alaskan surfers who spent the last moments of daylight riding glassy waist to chest high waves in slushy salt water. It was a true classic Alaskan surf session with a gorgeous winter sunset over the snow covered mountains, ice covering the beaches and floating by in the lineup, [...]
Surfing Alaska – December 28th, 2008
The swell that started the day after Christmas turned out to be one of those gifts that just keep giving, and just gets better with age! Of the 209 photos I kept from this day, below are 15 that I could not resist. The surfers reading (or are you all surfers?) can appreciate the empty [...]
Surfing Session – December 26, 2008
As predicted, we had a pretty strong surf swell in Homer, Alaska on the day after Christmas. It was actually a bit oversized for our normal breaks so we surfed a kind of funky beach break. Turned out to be some great drops, and a few nice walls to ride between heavy poundings. It was [...]
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