Surfing Santas
surfing santa annual festival held cocoa beach florida christmas eve participant dress santa claus surf thousand spectator watch beach host costume competition live music surfing santa free beach party held noon christmas eve minuteman causeway area cocoa beach florida santa surf attracts hundred surfer traditionally dressed santa claus also wearing elf reindeer grinch costume well thousand spectator every year local food stall open beach event live band play music event also feature costume competition hawaiian dancer festival regular include mr mr surfing santa – clifford peanut terrie keuhner festival collect charity donation florida surf museum grind life festival raised local charity cocoa beach space coast themed shirt depicting santa space sold event cocoa beach prominent surfing history considered capital activity surfing santa began started george trosset family since event organized along florida surf museum trosset grew rockledge florida around surfing santa iconography childhood moved cocoa beach take grandfather boat shop selling business inspired honda commercial showing surfer driving beach christmas surfing wearing santa hat white beard trosset decided expand make christmas tradition wife made santa costume went surfing christmas eve child florida today photographer rik jesse beach published photograph took trosset christmas day paper intended trosset continued tradition inviting along friend drawing crowd similarminded people surfing santa convened near trossets beach house grew numerous cocoa beach city council approved organizing event downtown around people attended spent one day visit creating christmas tourism area beach grit suggested surfing santa become cocoa beach biggest claim fame overtaking kelly slater despite covid pandemic event continued held virtually though several hundred people still went beach surf santa without festival space coast office tourism