Welcome. Please be seated. We’re gathered here today not to mourn a loss but to celebrate a life well-lived – one of countless waves and good times. And, yes, there was that one time the Pope blessed our beloved wave pool. And it was with a slew of sad emoji faces on our devices that we learned of the closure of Arizona’s Big Surf – the one, the only, the original and dare we say it – an inspiration for the tech that followed. And though not as refined as today’s similarly styled characters, the stoke was real. What, if any, wave pool phoenix may rise from Big Surf’s ashes, we’ll have to wait and see. But with five pools already in planning stages in the state, who knows if there’s room for another? It looks as if Big Surf was a Covid casualty, a long closure hastened its demise, and the … Continue reading Saying goodbye to the world’s first surf park – Arizona’s Big Surf