You can’t spend much time with the legendary surfer Robert August without getting riddled with a lot of jokes. On our trip to Witch’s Rock, the unique rock formation in the middle of the water of ...

TAMARINDO, Guanacaste – I woke up oddly dreading my 10:30 surf lesson. I thought it would be blistering hot during the instructions on the beach, and then it would be strenuous paddling out, and then ...

“No problem,” said the camp director, and with a chalk stroke on the activities board, added my name to the advanced group boat trip to Witches Rock and Ollies Point. In the meantime, I’d surf one ...

Witches Rock is not a destination that immediately comes to mind when talking about Portuguese big-wave pro Nic Von Rupp. But a boat trip is still a boat trip, the tropics are still the tropics, and ...

At the risk of overstating the obvious, it’s tough to become a surfer in Colorado. Lack of an ocean aside, I took up the sport a few years back and probably a few decades too late. What began as ...