I use 30-50 strength Banana Boat sunscreen if I am going to be out in the sun for more than a few minutes - we blondies have to be careful - and the doctor found no lesions to worry aobut at my last physical. I have never worn a Speedo, but sometimes I have gone without anything at Black's Beach. I have used a boogie board when I was taking the kids to the beach on days when the waves were too small to get any traction otherwise. I prefer floating in water where I can only touch the bottom in the wave trough and then feel the water flowing out to fill the cresting wave, when the waves are big enough to be worth the effort but not so big that they might kill me. I have had a couple of memorable moments - once I got squirted completely out of the water when I came down the front of one breaker at Black's only to meet another breaking at almost a right angle, another when I was floating waiting for the ninth wave off Torrey Pines Beach when I saw a lot of people on the beach waving, shouting and pointing out south of me - soon I was enveloped by a pod of pilot whales, about half of them inshore of me.
What is "sponge boy"?
Just by coincidence, inside the cap of the bottle of Kona beer that I just opened the Hawaiian vocabulary word is He'e Nalu - Surfing.