This small barren islet is located off shore of a North Atlantic village, with some waves breaking into a channel of deeper water.

The photo below shows a different angle on a different day. Look at waves peeling further in to the inlet. Pretty interesting. With some bigger swells there would be some nice waves coming through these parts.

top photo cred: sanda, bottom photo cred: christensen

Photo: Rielly

This man below is not threading a pipeline wave, but threading a miniature bagpipe.

Bagpipes come in many shapes and sizes:

The shark and the surfer are a part of the same ongoing archetypal outdoor-sports-lifestyle story that has been going on for ages: the hiker and the bear, the captain and the storm, or Captain Ahab and the white whale. It touches the human soul, because at its heart is the pitting of man versus nature and man versus beast, where the beast personifies the violent disregard of life that nature possesses, combined with the terrifying consciousness of a sub-human mind.

In these instances it is not uncommon for the man to not only dread his unfeeling foe, but to formulate an obsession concerning it. Perhaps the obsession with the Monstrosity originated from the fact that it is actually a reflective picture of the monstrous potential within the human soul. Fortunately for surfers in the arctic, the ‘Greenland Shark’ is a docile version of the more territorial Great White Shark of warmer waters.

This pic from a travel video is kind of interesting because the landscape has a very mysterious feel, which I am assuming is standard for this island-region of the world.

There is a lot of talk about reform going around the political circles these days. You might be attending the Copenhagen Climate Conference or maybe you are discussing the party-line polemics of the Public Option with your fellow caucus populist. But let’s be clear my friends, none of this has any bearing on a radical inside reforming reef break on the frigid fringe of Europe’s Arctic Circle.

photo cred: thanks to Erik from here.

The world’s tallest man-made chimney is called GRES-2 in Ekibastuz, Khazakstan. Below is a photo of a natural geological ‘chimney’.

In arctic Europe there are cliffs that go right into the ocean. When winter comes, the snows and gales start up and the beaches welcome waves from all around.

I was surprised to find these two photographs below showing what looks like a point break.

Pictures from the Bering Sea.

Photos of this coastline show a left point break.

From an island that formerly was a part of Russia.