Surf's Up!

How about a little nostalgia for summer?

Sexy Surfer

Surf naked!

Sexy Surfer

December seems like a good time to post a nod to surfing, warm beaches, and no need for clothes.

Off Season

After surfing all summer, she looks forward to surfing during the off season, when the beaches are empty and she has the waves to herself.

Surf Nude!

Surfin Nude!

Surfs Up! Head out.

Surfing Safari

They'd travelled down the coast to a remote stretch of beach. They had planned to spend an entire month surfing. After the first few days, most abandoned swimsuits. There wasn't really any point.

Surf Girl Topless

Surfs Up!

One thing this blog doesn't have enough of: naked surfing.

Here's a small step toward remedying that.

Surf Nude!

Surfs Up!

Surfer Girl

Surfer Girl

Running back from the ocean after surfing a set of great waves. 

(It wasn't a nude beach.) She didn't care. One couple passed by as they walked. Apparently, they didn't care either. 

Too many people keep their clothes on because they feel they have to. They worry about offending others or breaking the law. 

Legally, nudity isn't what's illegal--it's often "lewd and lascivious behavior" that's illegal. In order to prove "lewd and lascivious behavior" in court, the prosecution much prove that the exposing of genitals for intended to shock or arouse unsuspecting viewers. 

And frankly, most people are pretty accepting and open minded. More often than not, they chuckle, and look away, and look back again, and chuckle, and maybe make a joke, "ya don't see that every day..." but inside are applauding the act of courage and nodding at the rebellion of harmlessly breaking social norms. In some ways, they may glance back a final time with some regret and sadness, thinking, "I wish I took on life like that."

SURFS UP!

On Captain James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific, his ships, HMS Discovery and Resolution, made the first recorded European visit to Hawai'i in 1778. When the Discovery anchored off Hawaii’s Kona coast, Cook, and his crew caught their first glimpse of naked Hawaiians riding the waves on smooth wooden boards.

When Cook’s crew arrived in Hawai'i, surfing ("he'enalu" in Hawaiian) was deeply rooted in many centuries of Hawaiian legend and culture. Place names had been bestowed because of legendary surfing incidents. The kahuna intoned special chants to christen new surfboards, to bring the surf up and to give courage to the men and women who challenged the big waves.

After the publication of the Cook expeditions journals, Hawai'i became the central Pacific destination of choice for captains, brigands, adventurers, missionaries and other opportunists. The haole brought new technologies, languages and Gods, along with vices and diseases that ravaged a society that had evolved over more than a millennium. Speaking the Hawaiian language, dancing the hula, chanting songs to and about the gods and goddesses of the islands, and wearing little or no clothes was deemed shameful and forbidden.

Brought to the brink of extinction, Hawaiian people, their customs, and the sport of surfing has survived. Too bad, the original Hawaiian preference for nude surfing hasn’t. Of all human beings on this planet who deserve to be naked—surely it is surfers. They have the leanest bodies, smooth and sculpted by water, toned, balanced, and tanned.