Destin Memorial Day 2008
Steve
Mike
John
Mike
We had a fun Memorial Day holiday:
1. Waves all weekend.
2. Humpback whale spotted 1 mile off the beach (so we heard)
3. Surfers getting circled by some sharks in Sandestin (unconfirmed)
4. A 6am wakeup call for me on Sunday to help save a guy that had gotten caught in a rip while taking a morning swim. His friend was screaming on the beach for help and woke up everyone in the whole area. Everyone was just standing around half-asleep and with no equipment on the beach to help. I ran down there with my board but the guy saved himself before I got there. The paramedics took it from there.
5. Mike, Jill, and I caught some waves in the outrigger kayak.
6. Mike and John surfed against each other in the final of an ESA surf contest at the Okaloosa Island Pier. See above.
| Posted by SteveCombs | Permalink 
[Posted by Cross | 8:10 AM]
Thanks for taking these shots. We had a great weekend seeing everyone and getting to surf some decent waves. Hope we get more weekends like this over the summer.
Humpback whale in area was definitely confirmed. They had a big picture of it on the front page of the local paper the next day. Some fisherman got right next to it and snapped a shot with the Destin landscape in the background.
Posted by
SteveCombs |
8:49 AM
I had to repost Cross' comment above to fix a link in the original post.
Posted by
SteveCombs |
8:50 AM
Thanks for posting these pics. John and I both had to surf right over a free-surfer or two during our heat...looks like you got the shot of John bunny-hopping off some poor guys head! Great weekend...hope it's the start of a fun summer. M.
Posted by
BlueMountainSurfer |
7:47 PM
The whale article including pics is here.
Posted by
SteveCombs |
6:38 AM
Steve caught perfect glass. What a beautiful wave.
Posted by
Cross |
8:48 PM