Foreword by John Streit. Words by Hunter Thomas. Photos by Jill Thomas. It’s been awesome surfing and chatting with Hunter Thomas over the past couple of years at Surf & Adventure Co. Hunter, 17, is part of a very stoked and passionate crew of younger surfers, paddlers and outdoor activists that utilize the shop as their hub… Continue Reading »
Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine & Streit. For however cool, windy and rainy this spring had been, the morning of our first adventure of the year to False Cape State Park had that summertime feel. Warm. Breezy. Humid. Sunny. Our expeditions of last summer revealed that the sandbars just six miles south of… Continue Reading »
Words by John Streit. Photos by Calhoun & Thomas The surfing media world made no secrets about the amazingly consistant runs of swell the East Coast received this winter. Some of the evidence can be found on this very website in features like “#Feb27Swell: A Social Media Perspective,” “Happy Hump Day” and “Saturn Swell.” Each of… Continue Reading »
Last year around this time; we loaded up a park ranger vehicle with our boards, jumped on bikes, cruised seven miles south of Sandbridge and scored an awesome day of waves set in the pristine, isolated environment of False Cape State Park. This time around, we’re set to make our False Cape Bike & Surf… Continue Reading »
Words and graphics by John Streit. Gone with the Wind. Aside from being the title of momentous pieces of literature and cinema, the phrase also applies to the Back Bay Watershed when the winds howl from the Northeast: The wind’s pull on the bay’s surface causes waters of the brackish estuary recede, exposing the mud/sand… Continue Reading »
Words and photos by John Streit. The last time Shaun Devine and I surfed the Chesapeake Bay, it was in the midst of Hurricane Sandy and all of the foul weather that accompanied her. During a storm of this magnitude, the concept of rideable waves breaking inside our continent’s largest estuary isn’t as far fetched… Continue Reading »
One of Virginia Beach‘s true natural treasures, Back Bay is a brackish estuary that makes up the northernmost edge of the Albemarle-Currituck Sound system. More than 9,000 acres of the bay and its surrounding marshes are protected by the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, ensuring that this natural resource will be protected for generations to… Continue Reading »
Over the past decade, Surf & Adventure Co. has been pioneering standup paddleboarding, or SUP: a sport that’s quickly emerging to the forefront in the worlds of both paddling and surfing. The ocean is where those worlds meet. Whether it’s gliding with the dolphins outside of the surf zone, or dropping into a wave and… Continue Reading »
There’s always been something that’s drawn you to the ocean, but not just to sit along the shore and relax in the sun. You want to be out there just past the sandbar, feeling the living pulse of the Atlantic. You want to feel the rush as the wave sends your board flying across the… Continue Reading »
Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine, Joshua Carolino and Streit. As soon as Shaun and I took a left turn onto Sandbridge Road from Surf & Adventure Co., the excitement and anticipation of the days ahead were impossible to ignore. After all, we just logged day five in a row at the shop,… Continue Reading »
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