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2007 Surf Issue – Surf Season Returns

Get ready for crowded beach parking lots, neck tan lines, salty post-nasal drip and unexcused absences from work and school-surf season is once again kissing the coastline of Santa Barbara. The all-too-short annual love affair between our beloved cobblestone points and northwest ground swells officially opened this month with a spattering of sublimely surfable days throughout the county, and the hungry hordes were on it.

The Indy’s Annual Blue and Green Guide

Welcome to The Independent’s Blue & Green issue, our annual ode to those great outdoor activities that cause so many of us to live in Santa Barbara. Whether you’re a surf nut, a hiking fanatic, a rabid rock climber, or just someone who enjoys a casual stroll along one of our many beaches, we’re pretty positive that one of the main reasons you endure our town’s high cost of living is because you’ve got a thing for the outdoors, a nagging addiction to crisp air, and a hankering for unspoiled natural beauty.

The Big Dance Shuffle

March Madness is heating up this week in Anaheim, where UCSB’s Gauchos are among the college basketball teams facing a do-or-die scenario. It is the national pastime at this time of year-hundreds of teams striving to earn one of the 64 berths in the NCAA tournament that begins next Thursday, March 15. They will be seeded No. 1 through No. 16 in four regions, an orderly picture that will become mish-mashed in a matter of hours when the first upsets occur.

Getting Stoked

In this, the height of the Hollow Day season, The Independent offers its annual January celebration of S.B.’s surfing culture. Read on for an interview with Shaun Tomson, a first-hand tale of riding waves in Fiji, and an update on the remaining limited-edition Yater Spoon, the surfboard seen in the film Apocalypse Now.

Yater’s Spoon


Replica of Apocalypse Now’s Surfboard Hits eBay

Surf Talk


Q&A with Shaun Tomson

A Tale From the Tropics


Surfing and Lifeguarding in Fiji

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