About the hurricanes of 2004

  3 out of 4 hurricanes; Charley, Francis, and Jeanne all hit the Florida east coast ruining the ocean bottom for the sport of surfing. Nature will, over time, cure this problem but in the mean time, maybe I should learn to fish.

Cocoa Beach, Florida
S U R F I N G

   That’s me surfing the semi-choppy waves at 16th Street in Cocoa Beach, Florida on June 7th, 2002 at around 8:00 in the morning.

Surfing is an unlikely sport I first tried while living in Mayaquez, Puerto Rico between 1967 and 1971.

  Living most of my life in Kansas, not one person I knew understood why I took every opportunity to vacation somewhere where I could surf.

  When a person surfs, nature is being harnessed and controlled to a degree causing the same kind of relaxation some find from gardening for example, except that you certainly get quite a bit more excersice and it can be quite a bit more dangerous.  Even waves such as the one on the left contain an unimaginable amount of power.