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After swimming with the waves off Patrick Air Force Base on Saturday, I took my camera and its long lens north to Cocoa Beach, where the surfers were capitalizing on Hurricane Bill's large swells.
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A surfer ducks into the tube.
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One peeks over a large wave.
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Showing some good balance.
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Caught up in a crashing wave. Most of the surfers were far offshore, making a telephoto lens quite the necessity.
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Doing the Egyptian.
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The 8-foot swells were daunting at times.
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Some surfers tested waves as they died close to the shore.
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If I were a beginner, I would have avoided the depths because of the rip currents brought on by the tropical system far out into the Atlantic Ocean.
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He's sizing up his chances with an oncoming wave.
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The advertisers in the sky were out in full force. This pilot was spreading the news about drink specials at a local bar.
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The bigger planes that fly overhead remind people that they're enjoying a beach that's close to an Air Force base.
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A sandpiper joined thousands of beachgoers near Shepard Park in Cocoa Beach.
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Just a beautiful, curling wave.
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Alas, a close-up.
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