With rugged beauty and consistent waves, Santa Cruz is a surfer’s paradise. Here’s where and when to get your board in the ocean, and how to respect the marine wildlife.

O’Neill, who moved to Santa Cruz in 1959, was one of the first to sell these neoprene wetsuits commercially and helped to popularize ... Capitola Beach Company and the women-owned Capitola Surf and ...

As you weave through old magazine covers and vintage O’Neill’s wetsuits, it feels like summer in the 60s ... Visitors can learn about the origins of the Windansea surf club legacy, women surfers ...

Ashley O’Neill, Issy Jackson and Maddie O’Reilly each grew up in vastly different places, yet they each found their way into ...

The dreaded wetsuit funk is inevitable, but thankfully avoidable with the help of wetsuit cleaners. To really take care of your wetsuit and ensure its longevity, you should be regularly using a ...

But that’s a shame, because cold-water swimming has many benefits for our physical and mental health – you just need a good thermal wetsuit for swimming. Plus, if you can swim through the winter ...

Hill is the only woman in the International Ultra Triathlon ... “Shanda is dealing with wounds from the wetsuit five days later. She showed me the large gashes up and down her neck and told ...

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