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A Swim with Billy Ficke

Words by John Streit. Photos by Billy Ficke. It's always rad to see creativity arise and expand rapidly in an individual; especially when that talent applies to surf photography. That's certainly the case fo...

Nicaragua Trippin’ with Brian Bassett

Words by John Streit. Photos: Wesley Neill. Having people like Brian Bassett on the Surf & Adventure Co. crew  is what makes this such a special place to work. Alongside Brian being a genuinely good per...

A Sneaky Week

Words by John Streit. Photos by Mickey McCarthy, Shaun Devine, Jon Carter, Colin Breland & Streit. A random as nature may sometimes seem, my awe has always been inspired when symmetry appears in weather ...

Labor Daze

Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine & Streit. It's been said that expectation is the root of all heartache. In surfing, that's most definitely the case. You check the forecast or a camera, and i...

Full Circle: Cristobal, Part 3.

Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine, Jon Carter & Streit. All good things must come to an end. So is true for cross-global travels and hurricane swells. The afternoon of Thursday, August 28 saw ...

Full Circle: Cristobal, Part 1.

Words by John Streit. Photos by Shaun Devine, Gene Kesler & Jill Thomas. The original edition of the "Full Circle" series chronicled the epic surf journey Surf & Adventure Co. team rider Shaun Devine...

No Hype. Just Right

Photos by Matt Vaughan, Mickey McCarthy, Shaun Devine & Karis Reventas. If anything, hurricane swells remind us that so much in surfing centers around the almighty hype machine. This website is guilty as c...

Summertime Pura Vida

Photos by Daniel Brittian. Words by John Streit. There's no way around it: summer is the flattest time of year for the East Coast and the Mid-Atlantic in particular. Knowing this predictable pattern, Sur...

2M + Hurricane Bertha

Rodanthe, N.C. doing its best righthand pointbreak impression. Photo: McCarthy. Photos by Mickey McCarthy. Words by John Streit. Before I ever saw a single photo the Outer Banks' Mickey McCarthy snapped,...

Birthed by Bertha: August 6

Photos by Shaun Devine, Forrest Roberts, Mickey McCarthy & Ethan Micele. Words by John Streit. For however flawed the rapidly-rising Hurricane Bertha swell was the day before, it was as groomed and b...