One day in rehab someone, started talking about surfing and all these guys who'd never surfed before said, Hey, let's go.

A Surfing Reflection

You forgot the paddle!

Do you know anything about surfboarding?

just sit there and... and let the water come down over me.

And they went surfing.

Ruthie, my lass, the surf was wonderful.

Raise oars!

Strike oars.

Strike oars!

Extend oars!

Right oars!

Weigh oars!

Paddle.

Bill here was telling me about surfboarding.

Some men prefer to surf

Paddle, that's it. I've got to send the paddle.

Paddles out.

It's sort of surfing on a magnetic field at the crest of a wave.

Hundreds of people gathered on the beach to celebrate the festival when the huge waves hit the coast at dusk on Friday. Many people were swept away by the huge waves, which destroyed everything wherever they went.

At the beach where I surfed today, I heard about a ceremony that had taken place there earlier in the season a farewell to a local surfer who had died at a ripe old age. His fellow surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.

Little Ricky out there on the lake without a paddle.

Ricky's paddle.

Ricky's paddle?

Be ready to raise oars.

Prepare to paddle.

This beach is a paradise for surfers.

And if you can see on some surfing sites, in fact, not only do you see what the waves are like or what the weather's like, but on some surf rider sites, you see a little flashing poo alert.

He came for Ricky's paddle.

I was a body surfer and I thought, Wow, that was an incredible wave!

Man the oar banks. Hoist anchor.

Jeanette, you've been surfing again. Look at those knees.

If anybody is gonna take Ricky's paddle back I'm gonna take it back.

Where's the propellers?

You forgot your paddle.

Ricky needs it.

I'm taking it to him.

MELBOURNE For me, as for most Australians, summer holidays have always meant going to the beach. I grew up swimming and playing in the waves, eventually moving on to a body board, but somehow missing out on learning to stand on a surfboard.

I can drive my Toyota Element when I'm going to go on that surfing trip.

And I moved down to La Jolla and learned how to surf.

She spends way too much time surfing the web.

So it has four rotors.

How do you wrap a paddle, anyway?

People send paddles every day.

Go back to your oar, 4 1 .