SM Pier Paddle Registraion Open

The Tommy Bahama Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival at the Santa Monica Pier on June 6th, 2015 is an annual all-day, family friendly celebration of decades of surf, paddleboard and lifeguard history.

The event benefits Heal the Bay, the 
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and 
its public marine education facility. Heal the Bay will receive a portion of net proceeds from the event. Partake in the kids beach, ocean, waterway stewardship and trivia contests. Help raise money for Heal the Bay!

Tracing it’s roots back to the 1930’s Santa Monica Pier paddleboard races – some of the first in the world – this year’s event offers epic competition. Courses start and finish on the sand immediately south of the Pier.

Events
SUP & Paddleboard Long Course
Elite Long Course
2-Mile Fun Paddle
Paddlecross
One-Mile Ocean Swim
Youth 250M Swim
Lifeguard Dory Race

To sign up for this years races, visit the event's registration page:
Santa Monica Pier Paddle Race & Ocean Festival Registration
For photo and video coverage of last years races, click here.

Wednesday Wipeouts

Every Wednesday (sometimes on Thursday, or Friday because we on "Skater Time"), a collection of the best and worst wipeouts that been caught by Six12 Media.












Previous Wipeout photo sets:
Halloween Wipeouts Santa Monica Wipeouts
Venice Beach Wipeouts
Venice and Huntington Beach Pier Wipeouts
Santa Monica Paddle Board Race Wipeouts
First Wednesday Wipeouts Set

Halloween on the Beach

The Blood Moon

The last lunar eclipse of 2014 happened earlier Wednesday morning. The moon turns red because the suns rays get blocked by the Earth, but are refracted in the Earth's atmosphere, casting a red glow onto the moon. The clear skies made for great viewing on it all along the coast.

B4BC's Skate The Coast

Now in it's 8th year, Skate The Coast is 18-mile skateboarding marathon held by Boarding For Breast Cancer to raise money for breast cancer awareness, prevention, and support programs. Participants skate, bike, or rollerskate along the 18-mile course starting at the Santa Monica Pier, and taking the bike path along the beach, passing through such areas as Venice Beach, Marina Del Rey, Manhattan Beach, till they reach the Redondo Beach Pier, where there was an after party at Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Each participant needed to raise at least a minimum of $50 in order to take part, and with so many of these awesome guys and girls each raising way beyond that, the total amount raised ended up to be well over their goal of $25,000.

Welcome and safety meeting before the skate.

Pre-skate yoga.

Click here for a large version.









One of the hydration stations along the course.

rolling through Venice Beach.









Check out Boarding For Breast Cancer for more info on them and their events or if you'd like to donate or volunteer.

There are a ton more photos(almost 300 photos), in the complete gallery. If you participated, or know someone who did, there's a good chance there are a couple photos of them in there, along with the large versions of all the photos on this blog:





Check out photos from last year's event too: