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Electric Surfboard Off Bellingham

After our hike around Whatcom Falls Park, we headed down to Boulevard Park between Fairhaven and Bellingham to have our lunch.  We sat by the water watching the activities out on the water.  While we sat eating our sandwiches, someone came zipping along the shore on an electric surfboard with a hydrofoil.  They were certainly pretty quick and headed off in to the distance.  It was a while before they came back the other way which leads me to believe these things must have a pretty decent battery capacity.  To any surfers reading this, have you given one of these things a go?

Powered Surfboard

Sitting on the pier at Log Boom Park in Kenmore gives me a plentiful supply of things to photograph.  This guy was out on what I can only assume is a powered surfboard of some sort.  I couldn’t work out what powered it exactly but he seemed to have a hand controller to manage his speed.  He was happily cruising around the north end of Lake Washington.  For those of you that are surfers, is this a good alternative when you can’t access good surf or is such a thing heretical in your eyes?

Survey Surfboard

AE7I2028.jpgSpotting surfers along the Pacific coastline is not too tricky.  Anywhere with beach access is likely to have someone who has gone in to the water with their board.  However, an unmanned surfboard is not a common occurrence.  As we were motoring across Monterey Bay, we came across this board.  It is an unmanned research platform with a number of instruments to monitor the bay.  Apparently it is powered and can cruise itself around the bay and radio back its readings to the researchers on land.  A curious looking thing!