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This video is of a sea lion that caught a rather large stingray. He seemed to be very proud of his catch and seemed to have a lot of fun showing it off to us. Thanks to Vince Sebastian for the use of his beautiful song!

Kayak & Outrigger paddle to Anacapa Island This is a video about Mike Dean and myself paddling to Frenchy's Cove on Anacapa Island, across the face of Anacapa, and back to Oxnard. This was a 32 mile trip with most of it in the open ocean. I have wanted to paddle to Anacapa Island for a while now, and I ran across a must-see video of Mike Dean paddling to Anacapa Island by himself in extremely rough conditions. The trip starts with him leaving the harbor in Oxnard in very harsh conditions with this happy music playing in the background. As I watched the video, it put a big smile on my face, and I decide I need to get to know this guy and see if he would be willing to do the trip again and let me tag along. I contacted Mike threw youtube to see if he would be will to do it, and he was. We agreed that on the next day with exceptional conditions we would do the trip. This last Sunday was that day (10/1/17), so I loaded up my gear and headed to pick Mike up at his house. The plan was to leave the harbor at sunrise, but as usual, I was running late, and we didn't leave the harbor until about 8:00 am. This video is the long version of this trip, but Mike has made a much better short version where he combines the footage shot by both of us and shows just the highlights. If you only have time to watch one video, I would recommend that you watch his video. I will leave a link in the comments below this to his video.

Kayak & Outrigger paddle to Anacapa Island & Back (short version) This is the short version of our paddle to Anacapa Island Here is a link to the original version by Mike Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhfsftSQFrc&feature=youtu.be This was a little over a 32-mile trip and took us from 8:30 until just after sunset. The song is called Float by Switchfoot.

Solo 30 Mile Catalina Crossing (Switchfoot On Fire) This video was taken on 9/9/17 during the Women's 2017 US Outrigger Championship race. This race keeps growing in popularity every year and is starting to attract outrigger canoe clubs from all over the world. My wife Sherri was in this race, and my only goal was to beat her boat to the finish line with enough time to get the drone in the air and get some video of her canoe coming in. Even though I had a 3-hour head start her canoe still beat me to Avalon. To tell the truth, pretty much all of the women's canoes beat me to Avalon. It took about 8 hours to make it to Catalina. Everything changed when I got out there. At one point I looked back and saw the dolphins and turned back toward Newport to follow the dolphins. When I was 10 miles out, I stop to send Sherri my GPS accordance, and I thought I saw a whale spout about a 1/4 mile back toward Newport? Once again I turned the canoe around and started heading back to Newport telling myself you're going to regret this later as I turn back again. In the end, I did not regret any of the detours and was glad that I took my time and enjoyed the trip. The songs for this video were chosen before the trip was made and that was the reason for the tiki torch, it was a prop for the first song in the video. The second song was supposed to be for a second video that was going to be a video showing the women crossing the finish line. Since I wasn't able to shoot that video, I still used the song and keep the video rolling. You can see Sherri in the video on the dock waving as she is just coming in from her race. There is also some footage of the canoes they raced over on. This could not have been a better day for a channel crossing as you can see from the video. The first canoes passed me just after the first 15 miles of the race. The race was a total of 30 miles. This trip was a blessing from God!

This video was taken during the Dana Point Ohana Fest in 2018 on Sunday mostly while Switchfoot was playing. All of the surfing except for the sunset footage was taken between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm. #ohanafest #danapoint #switchfoot

Dana Point waterfall

This is video of the Ortega waterfall right next to Ortega Highway. This waterfall is just 500ft from Ortega Highway and 4 miles from Lake Elsinore as the crow flies.

Waves closeout Newport Harbor during a storm on 2/17/17 at 4:30 pm. the winds were 39 mph with gust over 50 mph.

Northern California Navarro Point (Jim's Song by Sebastian)

This is a video of Russ fire poi dancing at the beach in San Clemente and at a party in the desert. The music is by Switchfoot and the song is Take my fire.

Russ fire poi dancing on the beach (switchfoot BA55)

Russ fire poi dancing at Gray's party

This is a clip of a sea lion that throws a stingray next to Sherri's feet while we were in our outrigger. 1/23/16

This is a video was taken while Sherri and I paddled from Catalina to Newport Beach during the Men's Catalina Crossing US Outrigger Championship Race in 2018. Who says that outrigger races are not a spectators sport?

This is a video of Mark Sherri and me paddling from long beach to Avalon

20-mile Kayak trip from Long Beach to Catalina on SMALL CRAFT WARNING DAY part 1 This is part 1 of Steve and Sherri first kayak trip to Catalina. We started in San Pedro Harbor and headed for Two Harbors Catalina. We started much later than we planned (mistake number 1). We were unaware that there was a small craft warning day (mistake number 2). We were rescued by the US Coast Guard 5 miles off the coast of Catalina. You should always check several weather and wind reports before making a trip like this. The Catalina Life Guards informed us the most essential wind report to check http://www.noaa.gov/ this is a government website and they are the ones that post small craft warning day or gale force winds etc. I also like to check https://www.windfinder.com/ and http://www.surfline.com/ . If you get several sources all saying the same thing, chances are they are right. It is also imperative to have a marine radio, a dry cell phone, and we also carry a waterproof satellite phone. When your life depends on it, you need lots of back-ups in case anything fails. You should also bring a compass. You also need to know what your most significant dangers are. Most people tend to worry about Sharks. Sharks are one of the lowest things on your list of things to worry about. The odds favor you dying of hypothermia or being run over by a small motorboat. You need to know the real dangers so you can be prepared so you will not be a victim of your lack of preparation. You also need to be in the physical shape that allows you to paddle a lot farther if you have to because things can turn out to be much worse than you could ever imagine. Before ever attempting a trip like this you need to do a much longer paddle than this along the coast without stopping. I can not stress enough how much preparation needs to go into a trip like this.

29-mile Kayak trip to Catalina from Sunset Beach to Avalon This video is from our kayak trip to Catalina. We paddled 29 miles from sunset beach. This trip took us 9.5 hours. We made the trip solo on 7/26/12 without a support boat. We saw several whales and had one follow 15 feet behind us for a while. This was our first trip to Catalina. We trained for months for this trip. We were making 34-mile trips once a week along the coast, before making this trip.

This video is from our kayak trip to Catalina. We paddled 29 miles from sunset beach to Avalon. This trip took us 9.5 hours. We made the trip solo on 7/26/12 without a support boat. We saw several whales and had one follow 15 feet behind us for a while. This was our first trip to Catalina. We trained for months for this trip. We were making 34-mile trips once a week along the coast before making this trip

Brook Street Laguna Beach Big Wednesday 8/27/14 This video was taken from 3 blocks away from Brook Street on one of the Biggest storms in 25 years "Big Wednesday". There are guys out surfing in this video but they are very hard to see in this video. This video was taken with my cell phone of Brook Street from Thalia Street or three blocks away.

Longboard surfing at Doheny swell provide by hurricane Rosa off Mexico. #Doheny #dohenystatebeach #longboardsurfing

Phantom 4 drone was hit by a wave

I have been warned about this creature and this is a video of our close encounter with the most dangerous creature in not only the ocean but the whole world!

Stand up paddle boarder runs me over (sup fail) This video is being managed exclusively by Newsflare. To use this video for broadcast or in a commercial player go to: http://www.newsflare.com/video/77650/other/stand-up-paddle-boarder-runs-me-over or email: newsdesk@newsflare.com or call: +44 (0) 8432 895 191 #supfail #fail

Dana on Right This Minute TV show This video was taken from my cell phone of the TV show Right this minute. I sold the rights of this video to Right This Minute among other internet companies. The last time I checked one of these companies has over 5 million views. This video has been one of the most successful videos to this day.

Will on channel 5 news talking about his stand up paddle from Canada to Mexico. This is a fund raiser for the wounded warrior project