birds, plants, bugs, and snakes

My good friend John works for State Parks in San Luis Obispo and has this great blog about all the native plants and animals he encounters while he's at work. The photography is great and it makes me feel good that there's still some beautiful critters around...

http://sanluiscoastal.blogspot.com

Click on the photo to see the bigger versions...mo betta.


Avocets


Baby Horny Toads


Western Sand Pipers


Kestrel

shred school

zamora zamora zamora

Zamora is a town in the northwest of Spain. It's also the last name of my friend Ian, who shapes some highly shreddable boards in Southern California. It's good to know there's someone who's more of a techno-weenie than I am about boards, so give him a call and he'll tell you all about them:

http://zamorasurfboards.com/
818.730.8615

thanks dave!

...for the new Swallowtail Society banner! She makes me smile.

If you don't know the work of David Muller, it's probably because he's everywhere. You may have seen some of his drawings in the Mollusk t-shirt catalog in the form of birds, jellyfish, and cliff-side surf shacks. You can see more of his work on his blog, PELICAN PILING.

Here's one of my favorites:

trevor shred

Photo: Jonathan Hay

When Trevor isn't photographing lingerie models or singing baritone fireside karaoke, he gives lessons on how to shred.

(6'1" wingless quad fish - MP CQC fins...ka-kow!)

how to make a dogstash by joey clams

new york is super rad

totally fried

chris gentle bubbles is a fast driver and don't take no shit from no spacones.

epic!

this guy won the super stoker award for general happiness.

martin killed it in the 6-8" surf on his toby creekfish.

dubstar's 5'5" lis was one of my favorites.

josh hall likes it short and thick.

RK power nap.

bubbles with the beer that made milwaukee famous.

zamora with a rippable styro-sled.

there was a good turnout and the local folks were super fun to meet and hang out with. thanks to everyone for coming out and having us!