A Northwest Gothic

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Bernie’s House

Before multi-million dollar corporations vied for every inch of real estate along Oahu’s North Shore, there was Bernie’s yard. Gerry Lopez, Rabbit Bartholomew, and Bernie Baker recount time spent at the iconic 1970s gathering place on Sunset Beach.

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The Body Electric

Surf philosophy: like 19th century transcendentalist thinkers, surfers, source their inspiration from the natural world. "Sufing is thinking, as it hinges on the profound engagement between an active mind and its environment…."

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Points Of Common Desire

The surf-glutted, sand-bottom headlands of Salina Cruz are an everyman’s surf paradise. Shawn Parkin provides an updated field report on Southern Oaxaca’s finest right points.

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Tarzan Redux: Chapter Fill-ins from the Life of Gene Smith

This continued documentary of “Tarzan”, Gene Smith, pioneer waterman and unsurpassed paddle-boarder, closes the chapter on a fighting man’s slow descent and return to a sanctuary in the California desert.  From the tragic death of his mother at age 7, fighting and defending himself and his younger sister from the ravages of angry guardians and local street gangs to his self-imposed exile from society in the lumber camps of Oregon, he blazed a trail, ‘cruising for a bruising’ in the ‘30s that earned him the nickname “Tarzan”.  Migrating to Hawaii from Southern California, he established himself as a pioneer waterman and a record holding marathon inter-island paddler, often unheralded and largely unsung, a loner on ocean and land. 

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My East Coast Ranch by Woody Mills