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Clearwater Beach, North Pinellas, Surf's Up Surf Report

A Few Little Ones: 10am, 03/22/19

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I’m watching and hoping for the swell to fill in this morning. I’m thinking about driving down to Sand Key. It looks on the small side here for a shortboard. The one guy out is getting long rides on his longboard. It’s super fun size for a log. Incoming tide push peaks around 11 and the high should be about 3 hours from then, so between now and two in the afternoon looks like the beat time to surf Honeymoon and Sand Key. It appears to be getting more consistent. The weather is comfortable. I’d say it’s a solid knee high with long rides here at Honeymoon Island.

Sand Key looks better for a shortboard. I’m jumping in with the groms:

Clearwater Beach

No More Ugly Watermarks, Please

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Tanner Jones Tail Blow, February 13, 2019

This website was just starting to get ugly and unviewable with those horrid watermarks covering the pictures.  You’ll continue to get rad pictures watermark free from Surfing the Gulf. I just couldn’t bare to look at it like that anymore.  It’s only been a few posts, and I’ve already had just about enough of looking at my pictures in a way that can’t be viewed.

Additionally, the site was just starting to find some really cool attributes before I reformatted it to be pictures for sale. I had added the recent sequence slider, and the regular weather temperature graph, both features I thought were pretty cool. 

So it’s back to the way it was.  It’s back to a website to keep myself and the 10,000 or so surfers in our community entertained, whichever of them actually decide to look at it of course.  This site also helps me to enjoy doing the things I love when I can share it with the people who enjoy it like I do. So if you’re stoked on it, it always helps to let people know there’s a cool site out there surfing the gulf like nobody else.

Clearwater Beach, North Pinellas

You Need To Go Out There

After watching a few social media clips from today I can’t help but wonder how good it really was. I saw one from Brandon Fraley that looked like a solid messy head high barrel.
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His looked better than any of the clips I saw from the Palm Harbor groms. Everything I saw coming out of their profiles were similar, although way less organized. The swell appeared to be a solid southwest swell, rather than the west southwest swell being shown on the buoy. Mike Peru sent me a couple clips of the point Honeymoon Island. The clip he sent looked like it was more manageable there than anywhere else.
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The storm surge was a large one and is probably taking its toll. Honeymoon could split soon. I was watching the cam seeing waves breaking way out in front of the south Clearwater jetty. On a longboard you could literally almost ride those waves from the channel marker way offshore( well maybe not that far, but truthfully pretty close). Brendyn Levasseur posted a really cool picture from deeper in the pass closer to the end of where that wave breaks. It almost looked like it was dropping by afternoon.
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A Fortnite video game professional was even out there giving it a go in the pass today, the man himself, Tfue.

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I would be stoked to read what it was like for you today. Did you find any manageable waves? I opened back up the comment section, so post up.

Birds, North Pinellas, Surf's Up Surf Report

Don’t Go – 12/16/18 – 10:30am

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“You’ve seen the beauty,” said a volunteer for the park today walking along the beach. We stopped to chat discussing education, american government, environment, and wildlife. He reminded me of all the beautiful sights found along the coast, the beautuful stumps of the mangrove trees rising from the water, the bald eagles and their young nesting on the island, and the many plant species growing here. Being reminded of this brings back memories of the hard work people have done to capture the beauty in photography and art, and how those types of media are becoming less often seen. There really are many beautiful things to see and photograph or paint along the water.