Kurt Van Dyke, a well-known surfer from a prominent Santa Cruz family of surfers who also own Van Dyke Farms in Gilroy, was killed by armed intruders Saturday in his home on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast where he was a longtime hostel owner.

As the Chronicle reports, two armed intruders broke into the Costa Rica apartment of 66-year-old Kurt Van Dyke Saturday, tied the hands and feet of Van Dyke and his 31-year-old girlfriend, who authorities identified by her last name, Arroyo, and held them in a room for several minutes. As the Costa Rican paper the Tico Times reports, the intruders then reportedly assaulted Van Dyke and fled with some of the couple’s valuables, including one of their vehicles.

Per the Chronicle, it’s unclear what happened during the events leading up to Van Dyke's death, but his body was found under a bed with a sheet over his head. He appeared to be asphyxiated and had multiple stab wounds, and there was reportedly a knife found next to his body.

“My brother was a very benevolent, giving person who would help just about anybody,” Kurt’s brother, Peter Van Dyke, told the Chronicle over text. “Kurt would never hurt anybody, and he was always there when you needed him. Everyone that he met knew this about him.”

The Chronicle reports that Van Dyke was the owner of Hotel Puerto Viejo, a popular hostel in the beach town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, which is a short drive from his home in the town of Cahuita, both located in the southern portion of the Limón province. The paper notes that while drug trafficking and other types of organized crime are present in the province, the small beach towns where Van Dyke spent his time are typically limited to petty crimes, such as theft, pickpocketing, and break-ins.

“We have the Police delegation in Playa Negra, the cantonal, which is the most modern in the country,” wrote Roger Sams, president of the Southern Caribbean Chamber of Tourism and Commerce, per the site Surfer. “We are working hand in hand on security issues. It shocks us and hurts us, because the Caribbean has been very calm.”  

“There have been no cases of violence reported like this against tourists. In recent months there has been no violence or assaults,” Sams continued. “This is an isolated case, he is the owner of a hotel, not a tourist, it has not to do with tourists and the people who come to visit us.”

As the site Islands.com reports, gang and drug trafficking-related crimes have historically been centered around the province’s capital, Puerto Limón, but the opening of a new port there in 2019 has resulted in the spread of organized crime and trafficking into surrounding areas. Per the site, homicides in Puerto Limón account for 25% of all the homicides in the country.

Per the Chronicle, Van Dyke, who got his first surfboard at age 7, was born in Santa Cruz to Gene and Betty Van Dyke, two pioneering, surf-loving parents who were also prominent in the farming community, as the family has owned Van Dyke Ranch in Gilroy’s Gavilan Mountains for 60 years.

“Kurt loved the ocean, our farm, animals and his family,” said Peter Van Dyke, per Surfer. “It’s a very sad time because of all the great memories we have growing up together, farming and surfing.”

“We remember your spirit, your energy, and the light you brought into the lives around you,” wrote a friend of Van Dyke on social media. “Some people leave footprints — you left waves.”

Image: Kurt Van Dyke/Facebook

Fundraiser for Madrone’s Oscar Myers; local Indigenous-owned businesses; processing trauma through surfing; learning about SF via Muni; downtown alley transformation; Photobook Fair weekend; Annie Sprinkle celebrates Earth and boobs; lavender and bees; SF’s 55-acre garden.

Rolling conversation

Tik-Toker Daisy, who goes by solo.dais on the app, recently moved to San Francisco from Georgia and decided to ride every Muni line from start to finish. She says she’s learned so much about the city just by using the bus as inspiration for her outings.

Daisy gives credits to the followers she’s gained along her journey who flock to her account offering tips on where to visit next. She says she’s discovered that having the bus as common ground sparks real conversation. — SFMTA

Roots in motion

Across the Bay, Indigenous communities maintain cultural presence through food, art, and shared gathering spaces. Wahpepah’s Kitchen blends traditional stews with contemporary ingredients, while Chabot’s planetarium show, Ohlone Skies, layers scientific observation with Indigenous storytelling.

The Indigenous Red Market in Oakland gathers vendors and neighbors under colorful canopies of art and music. Spaces like the American Indian Cultural Center in the Mission and the Native American Health Center offer ongoing opportunities for connection and community building throughout the year. — Do The Bay

Hidden currents

A narrow alley off California Street has become a sudden central focal point. Flow State, a new mural presented by Downtown SF Partnership, threads the city’s icons through waves of abstract form — streetcars, bridges, and fog rendered in fluid, searching lines.

The piece is part of the group’s Public Realm Action Plan, a project turning small, underused corners of downtown into places meant for lingering. — Downtown SF

Books in light

This weekend, photobook enthusiasts will gather at Harvey Milk Photo Center for San Francisco’s first Photobook Fair. Bay Area publishers including Deep Time Press and TBW Books will showcase their roster of books alongside work by artists from the Bay Area and beyond.

Visitors can browse intimate, limited editions as well as large publications, all of which will be part of the collection at the center’s permanent David Johnson Reference Library. — KQED Arts

Fire, love, and ash

Local icon and ‘80s alt-porn star Annie Sprinkle is busy this fall. Sprinkle and her wife Beth Stephens are making the rounds presenting the final film in their “ecosexual” trilogy, Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency, which just received an Audience Choice Award at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

The film is a hybrid art-documentary that turns the couple’s experience evacuating their home during the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fires into a meditation on loss, resilience, and intimacy with the Earth. Screens Saturday night at Artists’ Television Access. — Santa Cruz Sentinal

Additionally, on Thursday, October 23, Stephens and Sprinkle are honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month with “Bazoombas in Love,” an immersive and cheeky art experience at Cushion Works. — Annie Sprinkle

Bridge back to the groove

Oscar Myers has run Tuesday night dance parties at Madrone Art Bar for 17 years, bringing funk, soul, and a direct line to the Fillmore’s musical past. The city honored the 81-year-old bandleader, who once shared stages with legends from James Brown to Charles Mingus, by declaring October 11 “Oscar Myers Day” last year.

Just before his birthday last week, Myers suffered a stroke, and friends and collaborators have launched a fundraiser to support Myers with his recovery and daily needs. At Madrone, regulars remember him grinning mid-song and shouting, “Take me to the bridge” — and everyone knew exactly what to do. — Coyote Media Collective

Waves of healing

At Bolinas Beach, San Francisco surfers Tim Gras and Eddie Donnellan use surfing to support young people facing trauma. Through their nonprofit, MeWater Foundation, they run free surf camps for hundreds of youth each year, giving participants a chance to find joy and build confidence.

The program also offers scholarships and mentorship, and has expanded to camping trips in Yosemite, New York, Santa Barbara, and Alaska. For the youth of Project Avary, a day on the water becomes a rare, bright m oment of care and community. — KPIX

Lavender and honey

On Chapman Lane in Petaluma, the Lavender Bee Farm grows thousands of lavender plants that attract bees and visitors alike. JoAnn and Richard Wallenstein, who inherited the farm from her parents, cut, dry, and turn the flowers into honey, sachets, candles, and other products.

The small shop on the property carries their handmade items, and guests can stroll through the fields while taking in the scent and sights of the farm. Each season, the work of harvesting and processing lavender and honey continues the farm’s long family legacy. — The Press Democrat

Green cathedral

Hidden in the heart of Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Botanical Garden stretches across 55 acres of winding paths and themed landscapes. Magnolias, redwoods, and cloud forest plants mingle with curated sections like the Fragrance Garden, where scents and textures guide the experience.

Thousands of species draw both casual wanderers and dedicated plant lovers, with early mornings and seasonal events offering quieter ways to explore. Year-round programming — from guided walks to art workshops — keeps the garden active and inviting. — Secret San Francisco

Image: Native American Health Center/Facebook

Previously: Field Notes: Horror on Stage, 10-Cent Beers in the 510, and a Globe-Trotting Galapagos Albatross

• Two former San Ramon Valley High students reached a $7 million settlement after reporting sexual abuse by former theater teacher Ryan Weible between 2010 and 2012. Despite complaints and a police investigation finding condoms in his classroom, the district delayed action, firing him in 2012 but agreeing not to share negative information. [Bay Area News Group]
• Dead & Company’s second night in Golden Gate Park brought out 60,000 fans, many in tie-dye and vintage tour shirts. The band played deep cuts like “St. Stephen” and “Crazy Fingers,” with drummer Jay Lane joining Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann on a triple-drum finale. [Chronicle]

• UCSF oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad resigned weeks into his new FDA advisory role after far-right activists resurfaced years-old liberal tweets criticizing Trump and conservative pundits. [Bay Area News Group]
• A driver was rescued and hospitalized Friday night after crashing 100 feet down a creek off Monticello Road in Napa, prompting a rope rescue by Cal Fire and county crews. [KPIX]
• A wanted man was arrested after allegedly stealing $1,500 in merchandise—including 21 bottles of probiotics—from South Bay pharmacies, then fleeing on a bike with multiple bags before deputies found the goods and fentanyl pipes. [KRON4]

Top image: An aerial view of an SF MUNI 5 Fulton bus that is wrapped in tie-dye colors on July 29, 2025 in San Francisco, California.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

1980 U.S. Olympic swim team member, former U.S. national team swim coach, and four-decade coach of San Ramon Valley Aquatics Richard Thornton died while heading out to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday, according to his family.  

Olympic swimmer Richard Thornton might have been a better-known swimmer, had his 1980 U.S. Olympics team not been part of the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. But his legend was huge in the the Bay Area, as he went on to coach the U.S. national swim team, and co-founded and coached San Ramon Valley Aquatics for nearly 40 years.

Thornton died unexpectedly Thursday of apparent unknown causes while heading out to surf at a Santa Cruz beach known as The Hook, according to the Chronicle. He was 65.

There is some dispute over Thornton’s cause of death. A Thursday Facebook post from  Thornton’s brother Marc says Thornton "passed away surfing today.” But an update from the Bay Area News Group says “initial reports Richard died while surfing are inaccurate,” and that “Thornton died while stepping into the water but the cause of death is unknown.”

Regardless, Richard Thornton may have peaked as a swimmer on a 1980 Olympics team that ended up not competing, but he would impact the lives of generations of Bay Area competitive swimmers, and even Olympic gold medalists. He co-founded San Ramon Valley Aquatics, a year-round swim program for swimmers of all ages, in 1985, and in 1995, coached the 1995 US World Championships team in Rio de Janeiro.

As the publication SwimSwam explains, in San Ramon Thornton coached future Olympian Matt Bondi, who would become an eight-time gold medalist (1984, 1988, and 1992). Thornton also coached Pan Pacific Championships gold medalist Sarah Anderson (now Sarah Anderson Cramer).

“Rich had one of the biggest impacts on my life,” Anderson Cramer said in a Facebook post. “He was an outstanding person and someone I truly loved and respected. By the end of my swimming career I considered him a member of the family. Heaven called home one of the best today. Trying my best to smile through the tears! Sending all my love to the Thorntons.”

Related: Mavericks Surf Rally Underway as 30-Plus-Foot Waves Pummel Half Moon Bay [SFist]

Image: Roxanne L via Yelp

In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.

A quintessential, self-described "old timer" of California's surf culture, and one of the first to open a surf shop in San Francisco back in 1968, Bob Wise had seen it all from the beginning where SF's surf scene was concerned. And a few weeks ago, the world lost a legend, as Wise passed away at age 74 — three years after closing his eponymous surf shop.

Friend Arnold Wong posted to Facebook about Wise's passing, writing, "He kept vigilance in having a place for local surfers to come and hang out and talk shop, offering the newest and latest surfboard designs. A quiet humble man, who didn't take sh*t from anyone, with a no nonsense approach to running the longest running surf shop in SF history."

Wise Surfboards was indeed the longest-running surf shop in the city before it closed, if not the first — that honor goes to surf legend Jack O'Neill, whose surf shop opened at Ocean Beach in 1952 and closed in 1966 after he and his family relocated to Santa Cruz. But Bob Wise and his surf shop, which ultimately became a three-story affair at 800 Great Highway, were touchstones for the local surfing scene, particularly in the 1970s and 80s — in the pre-internet days when you needed to call the store and hear Wise's daily recorded outgoing message to know what the conditions were like at Ocean Beach that day.

"For what it’s worth, conditions today are..." Wise's message would usually begin.

The Chronicle covered the closure of Wise Surfboards in late 2019, at a time when a store employee said business had been down overall. Surf shops endured through the early years of e-commerce in part because surfboards were difficult to ship, and were still a product that consumers want to see up close and touch.

Wise Surfboards also maintained an informal honorary club called the Double Overhead Association, which included a group of local surfers and photographers, and if you succeeded in surfing a wave that was double your height, you got your photo posted to the wall inside the shop — a special Ocean Beach honor.

But by 2011, Wise was telling Surfer Magazine, "As far as business goes, the Internet is actually wiping most of us off the map." And, he noted, that business had been great when his shop was the only game in town and the only surf shop north of Santa Cruz, but that had also changed over time.

When he started the business, Wise shaped and glassed his own custom surfboards out of a shop on Wawona Street. But the business ultimately grew into selling surfboards from dozens of brands from around the world as well as wetsuits and other gear.

Wise, like many longtime surfers in SF, lamented the fact that there was little sense of community or culture left in recent decades on the local scene.

"Years ago, it used to be that the guys that surfed out here, everybody knew everybody. Most of us lived by the ocean," Wise told Surfer Magazine a decade ago. "You really couldn’t live inland and be a surfer. When I was a young guy, if you were on the other side of town, if you were five miles away, you could miss it, you know. There was no way of knowing. So it’s a whole different deal right now. Surfers are scattered, and I really don’t think there’s a surf scene and a surf culture, per se."

As Glenn Brumage, executive director of Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center, told the Chronicle three years ago, "There would be no surfing without the surf shop. You found out information where to surf, you met people who surfed. There was no other place to get the information needed."

RIP, Bob Wise.

Top image courtesy of Wise Surfboards

Along the Pacifica coastline this past weekend, beachgoers were treated to the usual array of breathtaking views, bouts of cetacean gymnastics—and, also, canines hanging 10 (or 20).

Sure, most dogs fancy catching tennis balls, but ruffly 50 special pups this past Saturday chose to, instead, snag swells off the shores of Pacifica State Beach, competing in the 2019 World Dog Surfing Championships.

YESTERDAY. WAS. PAWESOME! I can’t believe that I get to tell you that I WON!!! I took a gold medal in Medium Dogs and a gold medal in Best In Surf at the @WorldDogSurfing Championships! 🥇🏄‍♀️🌊🤙🏻 pic.twitter.com/453eSyADfo

— Cherie the Surf Dog (@SurfDogCherie) August 4, 2019

Sources, like KQED, say nearly 4,000 dog lovers and curious onlookers came out to see these good boys and girls tackle the lively seas the state beach is quasi-famous for.

And although each of the four-legged athletes did their dog gon’ best, one stubby-tailed french bulldog, Cherie from Newport Beach, ultimately took home the title of “World's Best Surfing Dog.”

Cherie, wearing a t-shirt that read "Cherie the Surf Dog” and donning a required life-vest, per competition rules, was crowned to be the winner by a set of human judges. While the judging is subjective at best, criteria like time, posture, steadiness, and surfboard footing (paw-ing?) go into consideration when finalizing their decisions.

"Cherie loves doing this," said Cherie's owner, Dan Nykolayko told the Chronicle. "You can tell. If a dog doesn't want to do something, it isn't going to do it. I'm more nervous than Cherie is."

Better yet, a portion of yesterday’s ticket sales and on-site purchase goes toward non-profits that better the lives of fellow doggos, the environment, and those supporting local surfing programs.

Weren’t among the thousands of bipeds out in attendance? Here are some of our favorite IGs from Saturday's dog-friendly festivities.

Photo: Courtesy of pxhere

A professional surf rescuer managed to scare off a very large great white shark near Half Moon Bay on Sunday just as it was approaching a group of surfers.

"It was definitely the biggest shark I’ve ever seen," Drake Stanley tells NBC Bay Area. He estimates it was 16 to 18 feet long, and a photo that Stanley shot before the shark swam off does indeed show an extremely enormous fish.

"I was sitting on my ski watching the surf when from the corner of my eye, I see something huge rising up from below," Stanley says, and he explains that as he saw the shark approaching a surfer, he zoomed up to it on his ski and the shark turned around and swam away. He then went about giving the surfers rides back to shore, one by one, just to be safe.

As Stanley narrates to SFGate, "As it came up, it rolled over on its side to look at me with its giant, dark eye. And I could see scars and cuts all down its body, like teeth scars. From all my 'Shark Week' watching expertise, I knew that it was a female." The detail there, per SFGate, is that females often end up with such scarring while mating, because the marine animal kingdom is brutal.

Stanley adds, "The trippiest thing about the whole encounter was the way it was looking at me. It looked into my eyes. We made eye contact."

The Mavericks surf competition looks to be not happening for the third year in a row, but that doesn't mean the surfing hasn't been good at the famous break.

Waves have been seen at the break near Pillar Point as high as 50 or 60 feet, though recent surf heights have reportedly been smaller than that, and today they're peaking at around 10 feet, according to Surfline.

Mavericks came close to happening on December 17 but got pushed back when a storm moved in and caused the waves to get too massive. There was talk of an impending contest again around March 11, but organizers shut that down as the swell started tapering off.

The last time the Mavericks competition happened was in February 2016, and since then organizers have announced there will be a women's heat for the very first time — though that's yet to be a reality because the competition hasn't happened yet.

Previously: Mavericks Wrap-Up: Nic Lamb Of Santa Cruz Takes Home Top Surfing Prize

Linda Mar State Beach in Pacifica hosted the second annual World Dog Surfing Championships on Saturday.

"How often do you get a chance to see a dog ride a surfboard?" spectator Toshio Hirano asked SFGate.

All the time, apparently. According to the Gate, there are "World Championship" dog surfing contests all around Southern California. Last year's Pacifica World Dog Surfing Championships (WDSC) winner, Abbie the Australian Kelpie, was on hand, having returned to the scene of her triumph from her home in San Diego.

"You want a dog to be mellow. I never grab her and put her on the board. I wait for her to get on by herself," explained Abbie's owner Michael Uy.

Dogs were awarded prizes for staying on their surfboard the longest. There was also a costume contest, wellness fair, and pet adoptions, not to mention tons of vendors, set up along the beach. One woman was selling doggie socks for $30 a pop. Hundreds attended this weekend's WDSC including, according to the Chron's Steve Rubenstein, an off-shore whale.

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ABC 7 reports that Abbie took home the trophy for the second year in a row.

SFGate also has a detailed photo gallery of the event, as does NBC Bay Area.

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You may not know that the wetsuit was invented in San Francisco, but by some accounts it was, and its creator has just died after a long life in Northern California surf community. Jack O'Neill, the eyepatch-wearing icon of Santa Cruz, died peacefully at the age of 94 at his oceanfront home Friday, a place he's called home for 50 years, as the Associated Press reports.

O'Neill said he created his first neoprene wetsuit after experimenting with multiple materials to try to better tolerate the cold Northern California waters off San Francisco's Ocean Beach, where he moved in 1949 at the age of 26. He attended San Francisco State University, earning a bachelor's degree there, and along with wife Marjorie Bennett he opened a surf shop in his garage on Ocean Beach in 1952, where O'Neill wetsuits were first sold. He would later relocate his family to Santa Cruz, in 1959, opening a second shop there on 41st Avenue and built the O'Neill surf brand we know today, becoming the largest manufacturer of surf gear in the 1980s.

"All my friends said, 'O'Neill, you will sell to five friends on the beach and then you will be out of business,'" O'Neill often recalled, according to family members speaking to the AP. But little did they know what a huge business surfing and deep-sea diving gear would become.

There has been a dispute over the years, however, about who can rightfully claim to be the wetsuit's original inventor — it seems clear that it was created around 1949 or 1950, but as the LA Times reported on the controversy a decade ago, the family behind the competing Body Glove empire has tried to stake a claim to the invention, and many still credit Hugh Bradner, a UC Berkeley physics professor and Manhattan Project scientist, who claims to have done his own first experiments with neoprene suits in 1949, taking his first dip in one in icy Lake Tahoe. Bradner never patented the idea, and O'Neill says he and Bradner discussed the claim over the years, and O'Neill stuck to his guns that he came up with the idea all on his own — saying he discovered neoprene, a US military invention in WWII, lining the walkways of a commercial jet.

Whatever the exact truth may be, O'Neill leaves behind an enduring legacy for surfers in the Bay Area and Santa Cruz, and O'Neill Inc. and Body Glove are said to share in a half-billion-dollar-per-year market share for surf gear worldwide — with wetsuits selling for $200 to $500 apiece.

Surfing historian Matt Warshaw told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012, "Of all the things that Jack is known for, I think his genius for marketing and promoting stood out." As the LA Times notes, O'Neill took his colorful personality to trade shows, making a name for his brand by dressing his own kids in wetsuits and dunking them in ice baths.

In 1996, O'Neill also founded a nonprofit that he was said to have considered his proudest work: O’Neill Sea Odyssey. The organization, using his own Team O’Neill catamaran, promotes ocean conservation education for children, and has taken nearly 100,000 school-age kids out into Monterey Bay since its founding, as CBS 5 reports. O'Neill called it "the best thing I've ever done."

Surfing is already pretty cool, but when you add dogs to the mix, things get, well, super freaking adorable. So, behold Saturday's World Dog Surfing Championship held in Pacifica. As NBC Bay Area reports, the contest brought out all the big dogs in the sport — including world-record holder Abbie (pictured above) and the renowned challenger Brandy.

As KQED News helpfully informs us, before Saturday there had never before been a dog-surfing competition in Northern California. That changed when over 400 dogs showed up at the beach to cheer on the competitors as they carved and cruised.

Top honors went to Abbie, Brandy, and Skyler. While Abbie and Brandy battled for first place on the water, KQED notes that back on the beach the two are the best of friends — which, let that be a lesson in sportsmanship to all your haters out there.

This was a bit of redemption for Abbie, who reportedly lost a surfing competition a few weeks ago to a cat/pig team. Abbie's owner, Michael Uy, adopted her from the Silicon Valley Humane Society 10 years ago, and some of the money raised at Saturday's competition will go back to the very same shelter.

“People ask me, how do you teach a dog to surf?” Uy told the East Bay Times. “You don’t. They first just got to like it, and they kind of discover surfing on their own. Abbie started surfing even before I did.”

Good dog.

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You know that doggy surfing competition I told you about earlier? Well it happened on Friday at the Coliseum in Oakland, with the help of that huge portable wave machine on a tractor trailer called the Gnarly Crank’n K-9 Wave Maker, and there is video of some of the contestants.

As ABC 7 reports, the organization behind the event, the Lucy Pet Foundation, brought the wave maker to Ocean Beach first on Thursday where the video above was taken featuring expert surfer Sully, the English bulldog, and an unnamed dachshund who is also quite adept at the surfing.

The Lucy Pet Foundation, who was ostensibly auditioning dogs Friday as part of a national tour in preparation for bringing the wave machine to the Rose Parade in January, is dedicated to reducing the number of pets euthanized nationwide.

Previously: Dogs Who Can Surf Being Called To Audition This Week In Oakland For Rose Parade Float

While some surfers chase an endless summer, the Outer Bar Babes of San Francisco clearly aren't attached to ideal, sun-drenched conditions. They surf Ocean Beach. And tomorrow the group is showing inland San Franciscans what they can do at the world premier of their surf flick "It Ain't Pretty."

Dayla Soul and co. raised $36,000 on their Kickstarter to create the 70-minute film, and it's premiering tomorrow at the 15th annual San Francisco DocFest from the IndieFest folks. The Chronicle was hyping the film, which seeks to rebuff stereotypes of bikini-clad surf chicks and replace it with wetsuit wearing surfer women. As one surfer puts it, "I'm not being sexual out there. I'm getting rad."

It Ain't Pretty - June 2, 8 p.m., Great Star Theatre, 636 Jackson Street