Posted on 12/25/2016 8:55:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Yes, Virginia, there are surfing Santas in Florida.
Hundreds of surfers in Santa costumes and thousands of spectators will descend Saturday on Cocoa Beach for the eighth annual Christmas Eve Surfing Santas extravaganza.
The Santas will be surfing the waves all morning and raising money for two charities by selling T-shirts.
One charity is the Florida Surf Museum. The other charity provides financial assistance for cancer patients needing to travel for their treatment.
The first surfing Santas event started in 2009 when George Trosset, his son and daughter-in-law thought it would be funny to dress up as Santa Claus and his elves and go surfing.
A photo of them hit the front page of the local newspaper, and a Cocoa Beach tradition was born.
The first three to do this was back in 2009. A photo of a man, his son and daughter in law was printed in the local paper. Today, such an event may not be widely publicized unless most of the town is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or some common interest forum like Free Rep.
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Brevard County, Florida ping.We are heading down your way in a few weeks! So looking forward to spending a few days watching sunsets across the Indian River and strolling on the beach...and watching NFL playoff games on my father-in-law's 81" telly.....in his beautiful family room with huge picture windows looking out to the Indian River in case I get too lazy to actually walk out onto the dock to watch sunset. :)
Hmmm ... a Brevard meetup at some point? See ZinGirl’s post.
Sur, count me in if I am back in FL by the date to be set!
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