I’ve been a Long Beach resident for nearly seven years. Never have I heard of surfing like this here. We have an enormous breakwater (built in to protect subs and ships in WWII), and Long Beach was known as the Waikiki of Southern California before the construction of the breakwater in 1941. A surf contest was held in Long Beach in 1939… and ever since that huge wall went up… there have only been wave sessions like this on a rare occasion. So naturally, I grabbed up the camera and ran out to document it.
I hope that my children will be able to surf the waves of Long Beach without concern of filthy water and a restrictive breakwater.
I hope this will motivate everyone to put their foot down and restore back the beaches of what once was the Waikiki of Southern California.
