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The other day I went to the surf shop that is around the corner from my house. A nice shop, but really just your typical suburban retail store with some kids working the counter. Inside I found a guy holding a baby, and talking to one of the kids. He was asking all the usual questions people ask when they are new to a spot. Turns out the guy had just moved here from California. He had also lived on Oahu for several years, and had even worked as a lifeguard on the North Shore.

It is a small store, I could hear the entire conversation.

The kid behind the counter was obviously very stoked with surfing (I am guessing he had been at it for a year or two). He was very enthusiastic, and telling the guy about surfing in Texas. "Dude, the Flagship kicks-ass!" he said.

I cringed a bit.

I almost joined in when the kid told the baby toting California surfer/lifeguard about this secret spot in Surfside called the Octagon, but they where having fun so I did not interrupt. I just looked at T-shirts and eavesdropped the best I could.

You see, I have had this conversation a hundred times since I launched this web site. I get a lot of E-mail, and most of it is from surfers who are moving to Texas. And I do think that the waves at the Flagship can "kick-ass", but there is about a hundred disclaimers that you need to make with that statement when you are talking to a surfer from the Pacific.

I lived the surfers dream for many years. Warm Pacific swells at my door step, a world class point break just down the road. Surf so good it was like a dream. So I am comfortable with these opinions that I am offering. I have a lot of fun surfing the Texas coast. I catch my fair share of waves, and some of them are really good. But it is different from other places, and that should be noted from the start.

I hope that if you do decide to continue on through these pages, that you will enjoy the content, or at the very least find it useful. If you surf in Texas, I hope that you are as stoked with it as I am. We may lack the quality swells of the Pacific, but we make up for it with sprit.

Yes, the brotherhood is alive. It has just moved to Texas.

Attitude is everything.

Aloha

Ed

P.S. Keep those cards and letters coming! - I will try to answer all that I can, but history has shown that some do get missed. My appologies to the unanswered.