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.
A surfer ducks into the tube.
One peeks over a large wave.
Showing some good balance.
Caught up in a crashing wave. Most of the surfers were far offshore, making a telephoto lens quite the necessity.
Doing the Egyptian.
The 8-foot swells were daunting at times.
Some surfers tested waves as they died close to the shore.
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.
He's sizing up his chances with an oncoming wave.
The advertisers in the sky were out in full force. This pilot was spreading the news about drink specials at a local bar.
The bigger planes that fly overhead remind people that they're enjoying a beach that's close to an Air Force base.
A sandpiper joined thousands of beachgoers near Shepard Park in Cocoa Beach.
Just a beautiful, curling wave.
Alas, a close-up.
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