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Honeymoon Island State Park Surfing Epicness

When Honeymoon Island State Park gets good, it gets really good. Honeymoon Island is not known for its slabbing barrels into dry sand. This wave is known as a point-break. It’s known for its very long rides down the endless sandbar. The positioning of the island in the gulf, coupled with the nature of the waves we get along the gulf, have shaped the sandbar and the island in general into a point. Cold fronts pushing in from the northwest, along with the northwest down shore drift shaped this sandbar into a perfect right.  There are also little righthand tubes when the wind is blowing in variations from the south; it’s when the wind blows directly into the rights. Whether it’s summer or winter, the right is usually firing. And when the waves are good, it’s usually on. Continue reading Honeymoon Island State Park Surfing Epicness

Surf Outlook: Mon, Aug 8 – Wed, Aug. 10

Surf’s up next week. Waist high waves arrive on what looks like noon on Monday. The waves remain about waist high through Wednesday evening. The swell is mostly a west southwest swell.  There will be a brisk southwest wind (15mph) through the swell event. You may have to dodge a squall or two, because scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast, as is usual for this time of year. My guess is, it will be mostly sunny with squally weather likely.  The sunrise is around 7am, and the sunset is around 8:15.

Surfing Photo Contest Winners

We have come to the end of a grueling El Nino surfing season.  After months of entries to the www.SurfingtheGulf.com photo contest, and after the voting has been tallied, we have our results.  The winners of the 2015-2016 surfing season have been decided. The winning photographs for the season are below. Continue reading Surfing Photo Contest Winners