SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big-wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can ...

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum overlooks one of the most renowned surfing spots in Santa Cruz – Steamer Lane. Along with historic surfing photographs and boards, the museum features a bevy of ...

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped ... s 86-foot wave at Nazaré, Portugal. Slebir told SFGATE Monday ...

In no particular order, take a look at some of the top surfing spots in Santa Cruz. Steamer Lane is one of the most popular and often overcrowded surf spots in Santa Cruz. Located at the edge of ...

(Photo by Mark Woodward / Native Santa Cruz) A curious harbor seal watching the “surfing sea otter” in July 2023. (Photo by Mark Woodward / Native Santa Cruz) On Friday, Woodward noticed the ...

Santa Cruz remains famous for consistent swells and its protected curved coastline, and was formally dedicated as a World Surfing Reserve in 2012. Surfing has been steadily increasing in ...

who drove down to Santa Cruz last weekend with a $250 rental board from Sports Basement, hoping to catch a few waves. It was Lee’s fourth time surfing, this time at Steamer Lane. Not long after ...

Santa Cruz's surfing otter, known to pirate surfboards and for aggressive behavior toward surfers, continued to elude capture on Saturday. Photos taken by Mark Woodward show crews coming face to ...

Nineteen-year-old Brock Johnson of Santa Cruz has broken the world record for "bike surfing." Bike surfing is a popular BMX stunt where a cyclist balances one foot on a bike's handlebars ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir ...

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped ... s 86-foot wave at Nazaré, Portugal. Slebir told SFGATE Monday ...