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Surfing Websites from a design perspective

My first love in life – well after my family – is surfing. I would happily give up everything else (well maybe not coffee) in order to surf all day and everyday in perfect surf. That unfortunately is a bit of a pipedream and while I live only an hour or two from a few world class surf breaks my daily surf experience often consists of just checking the surf on a handful of surf report and surf cam sites.

Some of the sites do the whole surf cam, surf blog and surf forecast thing really well but from a design point of view all of the sites I found in my search could do with a little 2010 cheer. My top two favourites would have to be coastalwatch and swellnet but I still find the layouts and design elements a little too complex for my liking. Here are a selection of surf websites around the world that deal with the dark art of surf forecasting and swell prediction.