"I like the solitude of it. No matter how many people love it there's enough that you can have some all to yourself. It's one of the reasons I got a house up the beach with a lot of land and no neighbors," he said, jerking his head up the beach a ways. He had ended up surfing pretty far from where he lived but that had certainly turned out fortunate for him today.

"And it's turned out to be pretty fortuitous since my girlfriend likes the ocean so much."