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April Swell Part Two / April 20, 2016 by Nathaniel Harrington

Part two to my post a few days ago. This is the way our afternoon went at Sebastian Inlet. Getting tubed!!

I don't feel like typing so enjoy the photos!

Surf at Sebastian Inlet, Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Chauncey Robinson Surfing at Sebastian Inlet, Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Surfing at Sebastian Inlet, Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Wiley Robinson

Chauncey Robinson

Chauncey Robinson Surfing at Sebastian Inlet, FL. Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Jade Morgan

Surfing at Sebastian Inlet, FL. Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Caroline Marks

Florida's Favorite gal ripper.

Ct Taylor and Caroline Marks Surfing at Sebastian Inlet, FL. Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Caroline Marks Portraits at Sebastian Inlet, FL. Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

It was rad to see Caroline get to enjoy her home breaks lefts again. Stoked to be there to capture it!

Thank you for visiting my site!

-Nathaniel Harrington

@natehphoto @chaunchoo @carolinemarkss_ @wileyrobinson @jademorgan

April Swell Part One / April 12, 2016 by Nathaniel Harrington

Crazy days.

We all saw the forecast for this swell at least two weeks out and boy did it look promising for a few of those first days. Surfline called for 9-11ft at first, then it dropped to 1-3ft with bad winds, then about the day of the swell it called for 4-5ft with occasional 7ft and solid off shore winds. Thats when we all got hyped and started to lose our minds and that is when the alarm clocks go off at 4am and the coffee gets brewed on triple strength. Haha, typical FL stuff... The real story always unfolds when you walk up to the sand and get your first sight of whats really happening.

No complaints from me on what turned out to truthfully be a 1-3 ft day with really strong offshore winds. It let us down a little in the morning, but we literally spent the entire day trying to find what we were looking for, and all that time spent searching turned into an honest day's work with a great reward, as usual I would say.

Check out the gallery of Central Florida having yet one more super fun day this winter.

Chauncey Robinson Lay Back Hack in the Pocket. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto).

I imagine myself sounding like a WSL announcer saying "Oh Chauncey Robinson with a layback jam in the pocket, perfect finish there potz"

Chauncey Robinson getting fins free on his backhand.

Chauncey Robinson. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto).

Spanish House, Florida. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Spanish House, Florida. Surf Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

Chauncey Robinson at Spanish House, Florida. Surf Photography by Nathaniel Harrington

The real locals, surfing as they always do.

Chauncey Robinson in the Barrel at Spanish House, FL. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Wiley Robinson in the Barrel at Spanish House, FL. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Spanish House, Florida. Surf Photography by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Spanish House, FL. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Wiley Robinson joined us on his 21st birthday and cracked a few off the top.

Chauncey Robinson at Spanish House, FL. Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

Chauncey Robinson finding that rare gem, one of the better barrels we have linked up on in this spot.

Jade Morgan making sure he found a barrel as well.

It was one of those days with a lot of down time waiting for tides and such. So i got to hang out with the boys, eat eggs and bacon, and enjoy this FL lifestyle we get to live. Tough days to be a kid.

Photo by Nathaniel Harrington (natehphoto)

This may not be a perfect a-frame but if this doesn't look appealing to you then there is something wrong. I'm amazed walking down to the beach most of the time, especially when the water, sky and land look like this!

What a day to enjoy.

This is labeled as part one because there is a part two. Later this day we ended back at Sebastian Inlet and well you'll have to check back in to see what happened there.

Thanks so much for taking a look,

-Nathaniel Harrington

@natehphoto @chaunchoo @wileyrobinson @jademorgan

The Barrel Post. / February 25, 2016 by Nathaniel Harrington

We've had a few proper days in what seem to me to be an extremely slow winter. But, the days we have had are some really good days.

About a week ago we had an amazing south swell pop up. It wasn't huge, but the shape was perfect. There's been claims by many that this was the best barrel day of their lives. Well, take a look and decide if you think it would have been fun.

I think a lot of people had their eyes locked onto views like this.

I wasn't able to swim long, the current was gnarly but the views were epic.

I had to give up on swimming, just wan't getting the results I wanted. So I headed into the beach to shoot lifestyles of the Chaun.

The views from the beach weren't to bad, so i stuck around to snipe off a few.

Daniel Glenn. A guy walked by me and commented, "why would you do an air instead of get barreled??". I would say why not do a big air over a barrel section, seems fun to me!

It was a-frames and offshores. Great job Florida.

Brock Taylor practicing barrel rides for an upcoming trip to Central America.

Daniel and Brock working together to gain scale on wave hight and air hight.

Give Daniel Glenn some steep sections and watch him explode.

Every time I looked, Mike Knapp getting pitted.

My buddy Kieth said he made more barrels this day than any other time he can remember.

Daniel, seriously.

Brandon DeFillipo tearing in on his backhand.

Senior Brock. He's always out to have a good time.

I've been fishing with Chris Yergans a lot lately and I can tell you both his surfing and fishing are on point.

Not sure who this gentleman is, but i'm pretty sure he would be stoked to see this sequence. If you know him let him know!

Another unknown to me reaping the benefits of a good wind swell.

Yergans catching barrels like they're snook.

Mike Knapp pretending he's still in Hawaii.

Brandon DeFillipo almost able to stand up, and he's a big kid.

Another unknown gliding through some clean barrel space.

Chris Yergans on this like a redfish in the mangroves.

Daniel Glenn kinda made the surf pay, hacking it to pieces.

Sorry about a ton of lame captions and non-sense. Its hard to spend this much time at a computer. :/

I hope you scored this day! If you know people in these photos please feel free to share this post with them. I'm sure they will be grateful.

Thanks for all the good times boys.

-Nathaniel Harrington

@natehphoto

South Florida Blues. / January 20, 2016 by Nathaniel Harrington

A few weeks ago Florida finally got its first real winter swell. The forecast looked a little sketchy and the winds looked like they could be fickle, but as the sun came up on this Thursday Morning it proved to be one of the best day's I've seen in Florida.

After a long foggy drive down south the rising sun showed us the first signs of just how nice of a day we were about to enjoy.

This guy is for sure dreaming about getting spit out of that barrel.

Kenny Saundry stoked that he's a goofy footer.

when Chauncey Robinson isn't getting barreled he's hacking the top of waves.

Chauncey getting some pig doggin practice in.

Above: Chauncey Robinson was in the right spot for probably the best wave I have ever seen in Florida. No doubt a perfect 10.

The drift was pretty strong, so the surfers took lefts for a mile or so and then made the walk back up the beach to do it again. The view got the stoke flowing strong.

Above: I met this surfer, Michael Turdo, right after this barrel ride. He came walking out of the water grinning ear to ear.

Michael Turdo finding some blue blue gems out there!

Above: Robbie McCormick was another favorite to watch. Most of the barrels I saw him get were below sea level and very difficult to shoot. Glad this angle and sequence worked out to show what kind of day he was having.