Santa Cruz is known as one of the best places to go to if you are a surfer. There are quite a lot of surf spots around Santa Cruz. If you visit this place to spend your surfing vacation, you can be sure that you will have a great time here.  

Steamers Lane is one of the surf spots around Santa Cruz. It is also very popular among a lot of surfers because of the fantastic waves it provides. It is usually very crowded, especially during peak season and the waves here are considered to be high performance.

Surfing is definitely a fun sport to do. However, there will come a time where surfers will want to experience more challenging and more extreme waves. So, just where can one find these extreme waves? If you are already an expert surfer and you want to test your skills to the limit, here are some of the most extreme waves that the world has to offer.  

First of all, you need to remember that surfers measure waves from the back. What this means is that if the biggest wave of the day was 30 feet according to the surfers, you will find that the people watching on the other side of the wave will be riding a wave that can be as high as sixty feet. Imagine, if you surf a wave like this, it would be like running away from a collapsing six-story building.