I’d like to present a brief photographic survey of the man made structures along the southern california coast that have provided, intentionally or inadvertantly, adaptive use as surfing breaks. Due to the limits of this presentation, southern california begins in the north at point conception and ends in the south in south carlsbad. The northernmost and first image is of the sandspit formed by sand settlement at the harbormouth breakwater in Santa Barbara which produces an extrordinarily hollow but just as extraordinarily rare wave called ‘sandspit’.
