Beach Trading Blog

It’s Summer and time to wax up the car and do some cruising. Of course we’ve got your interior covered with our huge selection of Hawaiian seat covers but what about your car’s exterior?

We found a great article with steps for polishing your ride including tips on tough to handle challenges like ‘repairing bird poop damage’ and ‘cleaning tar, sap and bugs’.

It’s brought to you by our friends over at Autopia Car Care and is titled: “Paint Polishing Clinic - Car Polishing Step By Step”

Once you get the outside of your auto looking good, don’t neglect the inside. Spruce up and protect your car interior with one of our quality Hawaiian print seat covers. They’re thick, durable, machine washable and made in the good ‘ol USA.

Come on down for the Long Beach Chapter of The Surfrider Foundation’s July general meeting on Wednesday 7/09/08 at 7pm in Barnes and Noble Bookstore in the Marina Pacifica shopping mall at PCH and 2nd Street, Long Beach, CA.

Their agenda includes:

1. An update on the Long Beach Breakwater Recon Study.

2. Find out how to implement and maintain a public recycling program along the California coastline that will be supported by local governments, not-for-profit organizations, citizens as  well as its visitors while acting as an effective and efficient means to recycle bottles and cans. This issue and other subjects pertaining to our coastal and marine environment will be discussed by Darren Kopp President  CEO of Shoreline Media.

3. Rise Above Plastics.  Hear from Algalita Marine Research Foundation and learn the latest updates about how plastics are killing our oceans.  We’re all part of the problem but we are also  part of  the solution. If you haven’t seen The Synthetic Sea Story by Captain Charles Moore, please join us and learn how you can help.  Beth Barnes, former chair of the Long Beach Chapter of Surfrider Foundation and Algalita volunteer will make the presentation.

We all need to do our part to use less plastics and one thing you can do is to wear a rash guard shirt for your sun protection - you’ll use less sunscreen and the plastic bottles it comes in. 

Looking for a cheap longboard skateboard?

This week we’ve got the skateboard sale you’ve been waiting for - it’s on our Wiki-Wiki Cruiser longboard complete! This is an entry level skateboard priced under $100 with great components and a cool deck that’s rolled on Hawaiian Aloha grip - not tape.

You can use coupon code longboard-skateboard through Friday, July 11, to get an additional discount off our already low price on this fun longboard skateboard.

When the surf is small you can pull this skatboard out and do some fun sidewalk surfing and downhill cruising to stay in shape during those flat spells. 

Today bbq’s across the nation will be fired up and lots of yummy foods will be grilled!

After you come home from a day at the beach doing some surfing or sunbathing you’ll be hungry and we’ve found a terrific article titled ‘Grilling 101: The Basics’ - you can read it here…

Here at Beach Trading we hope all of you will have a fun and safe 4th of July holiday. 

Is your boss giving you a hard time about taking a vacation? Do you feel guilty about leaving your responsibilities for a little ‘R&R’? Well, you shouldn’t because taking a vacation from the stresses of your job can actually make you more productive and feel better!

In an annual Expedia.com survey more than half the workers surveyed who take vacation find they not only feel more rested and rejuvenated after a vacation, but 40 percent feel better about their jobs and say they are more productive.

You can read more here…

These Indo Pro balance boards are so popular we’re putting them on sale again this week!!

As you know Indo Boards are an awesome way to get in shape for almost ANY sport and now until the end of the week you can use coupon code indopro when you checkout and we’ll take 5% off the price of the Indo Board Pro. Hurry because the coupon is only good until Midnight this Friday, July 4th.

From conservation in your home to reducing toxicity, here are 100 ways to save the environment.

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This week we’re putting one of our delicious flavors of Lion Coffee on sale!

Now until Friday you can get an extra discount off of our already low price on Lion’s Vanilla Macadamia coffee. Just use coupon code lion-coffee when you checkout.

This flavor of Lion Coffee is a light medium roast of sweet vanilla aroma blended with creamy macadamia nut. We sell all our Lion Coffee in 7oz bag already pre-ground for your convenience. Enjoy!

Ever needed a legitimate excuse to go surfing? Today you finally have it: International Surfing Day. Created by SURFING Magazine, this unofficial, official surfers’ holiday gives you a chance to promote and celebrate the sport while bringing awareness to the state of our oceans and beaches.

The goal is simple: take the day, or at least a part of the day, to go out, catch a wave or three and — while you’re at it — help clean up your favorite beach. In conjunction with the Surfrider Foundation, SURFING Magazine will be organizing a handful of official beach cleanups, but that doesn’t stop you from beautifying your own stretch of sand. They even have challenges, (i.e. ‘Most Unique Piece of Trash’), with some great prizes!

SURFING Magazine will be documenting this day as thoroughly as possible. Not only will they be assigning key regions around the globe to their team of expert photographers, they’re depending on YOU to show them how it all went down in your backyard. You can email them your highlights — both in words and photos — from International Surfing Day.

Hawaii’s Cynthia Derosier is changing lives for troubled teens on the shores of Oahu one wave at a time.

The freelance art director—with help from Hawaii Girls Court and in conjunction with her local Surfrider chapter—has started the Surfrider Spirit Sessions, a six-week program that is run by surfers and is, “aimed at showing troubled teenaged girls how to live better, healthier lives through surfing.”

Derosier’s bigger goal is to take the program to other Surfrider Foundation chapters across the nation. Already, the New Jersey Chapter is interested in using the Spirit Sessions as a model for a gang-prevention program.

To learn more about or support the program, visit: www.thesurferspirit.com