Every year, Cocoa Beach, Florida, stages the effervescent "Surfing Santas" event, a "surf-off" and costume contest attended ...

A surfer dressed up as Mrs. Claus during the annual Surfing Santas event, held as part of Christmas Eve celebrations at Cocoa Beach, Florida, on Dec. 24, 2025. (Photo by Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty ...

Surfing Santas is an annual beach party where attendees surf while dressed up as Santa Claus. Surfing Santas started when George Trosset and his family hit the waves in 2009 and happened to be ...

Every year on Christmas Eve, hundreds of surfers in Santa Claus costumes take to the waves on Cocoa Beach in their most festive garb to celebrate the holidays for Surfing Santas, and thousands of ...

THEY’RE JUST GROWING. THE SUN’S SHINING. ALL RIGHT. HUNDREDS OF SURFERS DRESSED AS SAINT NICK HIT THE WATER. THE SUN SHINED ON THEM TODAY AS PART OF THE ANNUAL SURFING SANTA EVENT IN COCOA BEACH. WESH ...

Just over 50,000 people live on the Florida barrier island between Sebastian Inlet and Cape Canaveral. Yet this small region has produced three world surfing champions — a statistical oddity that ...

Brevard's Bryan Hewitson and Todd Morcom were inducted into the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Jan. 8 at the 50th annual ...