Spotlight Juno Beach Pier » Sweet spot on the A1A

JUNO Beach Pier, jewel of Florida's State Road A1A, the surf highway of the East Coast. This fickle stretch of the U.S. has a reputation for poor waves and consistent onshores. This begs a question: how do the surfers here get so good? Everyone here has just clicked onto hurricane watch, just waiting for those cyclones to start developing off West Africa. In the meantime the last few weeks have produced a series of decent swells for the locals to practise on. Local photog Stuart Browning was there to document the sessions.

East facing it must be sunrise ... Unknown with some engery to burn© 2009 - Stuart Browning

When you’re tooling up and down the East Coast of Florida, says Stuart, there is only one road, A1A. And there is one stop not to miss, the Juno Beach Pier. Park in the free parking lot. Walk to the planks. Look up and the allure of the ocean will possess you. In some magical way the breeze, the waves, and the sun take control and take you to a place of its own. The water is clear, the temperature is warm, and all you want to do is get wet. The running charge for that first entry into the water tells it all. It’s more than a sport - it’s an infection that never leaves your soul.

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