A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Mountainous semi-tropical Caribbean nation forming the eastern half of Hispaniola; 75 miles west of Puerto Rico, 350 miles north of Venezuela. The Dominican Republic, second-largest nation in the Caribbean in area and population, has a huge amount of surfing potential. 

The months of November through April provide the most consistent surf with spots along the reef-fringed northern coasts occasionally breaking at up to 15 feet. The southern, Caribbean coast is far calmer, and generally receives only windswell waves that max out around six feet—though hurricane season, July to October, can whip up short period swells approaching 10 feet. 

The Dominican Republic's most popular surf breaks are near the northern beach town of Cabarete, a popular wind and kitesurfing destination. Encuentro, a forgiving left-breaking reef, with a shorter, tubing right-hander on bigger swells, is the island's best known and most regularly ridden wave. Air and water temperatures in the Dominican Republic average in the pleasant mid-80s all year. Shallow coral reefs and urchins are the main surfing hazards.

First surfed by visiting Californians in the 1960s, crowds are nevertheless rarely a factor at Dominican Republic surf spots, with the country's 345 mile long border with Haiti a turnoff for many travelers. A handful of professional surfers make the Dominican Republic their home, and the country fields a surf team for the ISA World Surfing Games. Many historians think that the remains of Christopher Columbus—who once called Hispaniola "the most pleasant place on earth—lie buried beneath the cathedral at Ciudad Trujillo.

Dominican Republic

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