On Christmas Eve, a sizable group of surfing Santas paddled out across Florida

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Surfing Santas at Cocoa Beach, Florida event in 2021 — Courtesy: Shutterstock — catlauren Surfers gathered in Cocoa Beach, Florida, Kelly Slater’s hometown, early on Christmas Eve morning for the annual Surfing Santas celebration.  Roughly ten thousand festively inclined individuals turned up.  They paddled out, surfed, and drank bloody marys in celebration of musician Jimmy

‘Surfing Santas’ hit Cocoa Beach amid Florida arctic chill

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Surfing Santas — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Image by: mikeledray With temperatures below zero, it might not seem like a Florida Christmas, but there is one custom we simply cannot abandon. On Saturday at Cocoa Beach, hundreds of “Surfing Santas” caught some waves before the big guy got ready to distribute his gifts over the entire