This research contributes to the description, meanings and understanding of the lived surfing experience, as an experiential blue nature place leisure experience and as lived by long-term
leisure orientated surfers. The hermeneutic phenomenological approach adds to a limited but growing research endeavour into the lived surfing experiences of local surfers in specific
regions. The lived surfing experience has significance in these surfers’ lives. Long-term leisure orientated surfers know a great deal about the experiences of their lived surfing experience
because they live it and have lived it for many years. After more than twenty years of surfing, these surfers have negotiated what is important for them, there is an authentic appreciation of
surfing for surfing’s sake, and the depth of the surfing lifeworld fit is evidenced by the continuity of the lived surfing experience in their surfer lives. The long-term leisure orientated surfers in this study have experienced the gambit of barriers and advantages of surfing through consistently seeking surfing experiences, and they know that the phenomena inherent in these experiences are purposefully and serendipitously available to those that enter this wavey watery nature domain, available to those who would but paddle out.