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So speaking of Clark Little and surf photography, check this shit out!
Meet Fin. Or is it Tofu? Boomer Hodel, a 14-year-old surfer in Hawaii, has trained his two rats how to surf. Apparently he took them to the beach one day and they loved the water so much, he decided to keep bringing them. One day, he snapped his own surf board in half and decided to make smaller boards out of the halves. This gave him the idea to make two 1-foot surfboards for his rats and to teach them to surf.
He spent weeks putting them on little boards and making tiny ripples in the water to teach them balance. Now they surf up to 4 foot waves and can even do tricks. Apparently Fin's favorite trick is to ride a tube, which is where you surf into a tunnel of a wave as it rises over your head and crashes down on you, then keep surfing through the crash as you pop out the top (most of the Clark Little photos from the previous entry).
The kid says that sometimes the rats fall off their boards and he has to go fish them out of the water and take them back to the beach to dry off, but the rats keep trying to get back into the water. They seem to be able to hang on to their boards better than most people, according to their owner.
One day, Clark Little was at the beach and happened to see these kids, two rats, and a pair of tiny surfboards, and followed them to see what was up. This is one of the pictures he took. There are a few more at the link above, along with a story about the surfing rats at Your Local Surf Blogspot.
So speaking of Clark Little and surf photography, check this shit out!
Meet Fin. Or is it Tofu? Boomer Hodel, a 14-year-old surfer in Hawaii, has trained his two rats how to surf. Apparently he took them to the beach one day and they loved the water so much, he decided to keep bringing them. One day, he snapped his own surf board in half and decided to make smaller boards out of the halves. This gave him the idea to make two 1-foot surfboards for his rats and to teach them to surf.
He spent weeks putting them on little boards and making tiny ripples in the water to teach them balance. Now they surf up to 4 foot waves and can even do tricks. Apparently Fin's favorite trick is to ride a tube, which is where you surf into a tunnel of a wave as it rises over your head and crashes down on you, then keep surfing through the crash as you pop out the top (most of the Clark Little photos from the previous entry).
The kid says that sometimes the rats fall off their boards and he has to go fish them out of the water and take them back to the beach to dry off, but the rats keep trying to get back into the water. They seem to be able to hang on to their boards better than most people, according to their owner.
One day, Clark Little was at the beach and happened to see these kids, two rats, and a pair of tiny surfboards, and followed them to see what was up. This is one of the pictures he took. There are a few more at the link above, along with a story about the surfing rats at Your Local Surf Blogspot.
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