Saturday scenes and scenery: Golden Gate Bridge surfers

Though surfers flock to San Francisco's Ocean Beach when the waves are promising -- not too choppy -- a hardy crew head to the break under our famous bridge when conditions are right. I don't know what that means, but they do and there they were on a recent sunny afternoon.


There was a good deal of jockeying for position.


Then someone would catch a wave.


And eventually run out.




Hey -- don't ride all the way to rocks. As these waves hit, I was catching the spray myself standing on the break wall.




Gotta catch up with that board.


To cap off the somewhat surreal scene, this group of Civil War re-enactors were playing just behind me as I took these pictures, preparing for festivities at Fort Point under the bridge. Ah, San Francisco!