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Otter's Waves

Surf spot: Salt Creek
Description:
boogie boarding beach
Surf spot: Seal Beach
Description:
Mellow beach, variety of water sports (surf, body surf, kite surf). Generally not too crowded. Host of an annual rough water swim in July, usually followed by a fish fry the next weekend. Plenty of places to eat, there's a Ruby's at the end of the pier.
Surf spot: Bolsa Chica State Beach
Description:
Taken from http://socalforecast.blogspot.com/ Bolsa generally works best on a combo of both S swell (170-195) and WNW swell (270-280). It does work with just one swell or with a combo of windswell and a longer period swell but it seems to pack the most bang for your buck when you get the 2 (or more) long-period swells. A couple of years ago they successfully built the Bolsa Chica outflow, which finally connected the Bolsa marshes with the ocean. In the process they dropped a couple of large jetties to stabilize the out-flow. The combination of these jetties and more sand being pushed out of the out-flow has started to create better wave shape at the south end of the state beach area. Beginners will probably want to avoid this spot
Surf spot: Huntington State Beach
Description:
Taken from http://socalforecast.blogspot.com - Adam Wright The beach itself slowly curves back so that the shoreline faces more SW’er as you move south toward Brookhurst. At the same time you also move a little bit more into an open SW facing swell window, which allows for a little bit more SW southern hemi energy to filter in. In general the wave is fun and playful with a few scattered sandbars here and there to give it a faster and more hollow section on the right swell and tide. Like the rest of HB the combo of S and WNW swells are what really light this beach up…it tends to like more S swell and less W swell in the mix but it does pretty good with any sort of mixture of the two. These beaches are only “ok” with windswell on a lower tide…at high tide it is pretty much only shorebreak. Spot details: Best swell direction: SE-SW (160-210) and W-NW (260-290) Best Wind: N-NE-E, light-moderate Santa Ana winds are the best. Sea Floor: Sand Best Season: Summer is ok but it is really best through Fall and Winter Crowds: Weekends can be crowded…but on an average day you can find plenty of room.
Surf spot: Grandview
Description:
Has turned into more of a long board brake over the years but when a good size swell comes through you can get some good rides.
Surf spot: Gaviota
Description:
Takes a strong south swell. Rocky/sandy, peak to the north of the pier was breaking fair when I was there. Interesting break, was fairly hollow inside, outside was kind of mushy.
Surf spot: Summerland
Description:
South swell produces some nice rights, rocky/sandy bottom.
Surf spot: Rincon
Description:
Rincon, one of the greatest breaks in California.
Surf spot: Ventura Fairgrounds
Description:
Rocky fun breaks, goes right and left, but generally a long clean right.
Surf spot: Ventura Pier
Description:
Breaks with a south swell. Always fun when it's working.
Surf spot: C St.
Description:
Fun beach break when it's working.
Surf spot: Hollywood by the Sea
Description:
Fast and furious. Be quick or die.
Surf spot: County Line
Description:
Fun break, can get steep and hollow.
Surf spot: Leo Carrillo
Description:
Birthplace of Gidget
Surf spot: Malibu Point
Description:
The mighty Bu. Legends rode here.
Surf spot: Ballona Creek
Description:
On those really big days when the beach breaks are closing out in great walls of green and white, the swell is coming from the south, head for Ballona Creek. The take off can be sketchy as your near the end of the jetty, but drop in and you can ride nearly to the bridge on a fairly fast, steep but mushy wave. Lots of fun to ride, paddle to north side of the channel for a clear shot at getting back in the lineup. Fun place to surf when its working, but that is rare.
Surf spot: Toes Jetty
Description:
This is basically where I learned to surf. There was a burger place called The Shack which achieved a certain amount of notoriety and fame, we used to tank up on the goods and surf from dawn until dusk. Teenagers...
Surf spot: Shit Pipe
Description:
Got it's name from the pipe leading out to sea. The "Hyperion" plant is actually a sewage treatment center.
Surf spot: El Porto
Description:
Probably one of the best beach breaks in the entire L.A. area. The rest pretty much suck. Golden afternoons spent there, produces sweet tubes if the conditions are right.
Surf spot: Manhattan Pier
Description:
Turns a short, quick left off the sand on the north side of the pier, rights can also be had. Works best on a SW swell.
Surf spot: Hermosa Beach Pier
Description:
Bit more challenging than most piers, steeper and faster generally.
Surf spot: Redondo Breakwater
Description:
When it's big and working, great place to surf. Legends were born here.
Surf spot: Indicator
Description:
Back in the day... there were no houses on the hilltops. The trail down the cliffs was steep and rocky. Very few people out unless it was big, then the whole world showed up. Was a great place to learn to surf big waves.
Surf spot: Seal Beach Jetty
Description:
Mean bowl forms at the peak, drop in is fast and fun when conditions are right.
Surf spot: Trestles
Description:
Trestles, another legendary California break.
  

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