See our favorite photos from Thursday evening’s bore tide.
Surfers ride the bore tide in Turnagain Arm as the force of the wave knocks Chris Brown, not pictured, into the water and sends his board behind him on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
“It was like a freight train,” said first-time surfer Chris Brown after he scrambled up the arm’s edge and walked back to his parked car. Bore tides are found in areas that have favorable topography and extreme tides. In Turnagain Arm, it can reach heights of up to 10 feet.Jess Malouf catches up with Chris Brown along the Seward Highway after they surfed the bore tide in Turnagain Arm on Thursday. Malouf laughs as she tells him she found his missing shoe.
Chris Brown and Jess Malouf paddle down Turnagain Arm to catch the incoming bore tide near Bird Creek. People gather at a pull off along the Seward Highway to watch people surf Turnagain Arm’s bore tide. A man lets the current take him down Turnagain Arm as he waits to surf the bore tide.
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