But it isn’t exactly a big-wave paradise. “It has nice beaches and is the perfect place to learn to surf, but it never gets very big,” says Andrew Cotton, who grew up surfing there since the ...

Many big waves were ridden, but Parsons’ (70 feet ... way to do the trip — 105 miles into outer waters during some really large winter storms. The boys wanted to go between the two storms ...

Slebir told SFGATE Monday that he’s not dwelling on the wave’s exact height. “Regardless of the number, it really doesn’t matter how big the wave was to me,” Slebir said. “It was ...