Slurpee Waves Ooze in New Jersey (Watch)

The slushy waves come from New Jersey photographer Seth Stafford, and they show a frigid day on the southern tip of the state on the bayside of Cape May. Per Stafford, here’s how it came to be:

“It seems to happen every other year. It’s on the bayside of the southern tip of New Jersey. The winter winds from the north west whip up a really short period swell. We got 8 inches of snow which started it and then over the next couple days of freezing weather each time a wave lapped up on the beach it froze and just kept building up.”

Can it be surfed? Stafford answers:

“It would be a pretty short ride as it transitions from water to slush to ice. I have seen some pictures of guys in Nova Scotia surfing some slush waves.”

In the comments, folks called on New Jersey’s own novelty wave specialist, Ben Gravy, to return home to the Garden State and score some slush tubes. But of course, Gravy has surfed the mythic slush waves of Jerz:

“Slushy surfing, pros and cons,” Gravy said post session. “Pros: It’s pretty interesting. Cons: Anywhere that a wave breaks, big chunks of ice pile up. Slushy surfing is so tough when it’s small, but if it was big, you’d actually die.”

Death by slushy.