The Hermosa Beach Strandscape project is the world's first 2-mile continuous panorama. It's an incredibly unique view of this beautiful stretch of sand: the playground of world famous volleyball players, surfers, tourists, and locals alike. Inside you will find one continuous, seamless image of the entire beachfront vista of the city of Hermosa Beach. It's your view from the sand, your view from the surf, your view from the paradise that we lucky locals call home.The Hermosa Beach Strandscape was made from hundreds of photographs painstakingly merged together to blend into one seamless, continuous image. The Strandscape panorama was then cut up into over 800 sideways-oriented images and posted on Instagram. Those cryptic, sideways images fit together like a puzzle and eventually began to reveal the Two-Mile Panorama Strandscape, which continued to expand until it documented the entire beachfront strand of Hermosa Beach, California. The Strandscape is presented here for fans of beach culture, fans of beautiful places, and fans of the project. 'Hermosa' translates to 'beautiful', after all. The Artist and Author Ken Bishop lives and works in Hermosa Beach. You can find more of his work at www.kenbishopart.com.

Unlike most Los Angeles County beach communities, the City of Hermosa Beach owns its own beach. But perhaps more than most coastal Southern California destination cities, Hermosa Beach represents shared experience, detailed on thousands of postcards over the decades. This greater square mile of sand, surf, and sun has conjured cherished memories for fishermen, surfers, and volleyball players as well as jazz fans, diners and tavern celebrants, and simply lovers of the beach who found lifelong or short-term happiness in Hermosa. These postcards recall many bygone landmarks and changing lifestyles and celebrate the Hermosa Beach century (1907-2007).

Grab your board and a bar of wax and follow Darren in The Drift Towards on his surfing adventures around the world in far off exotic places like Panama, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Follow Darren from his days as a grom on the Jersey Shore and on his surf trips along the East Coast with his friends. Watch as he packs his board bag and follows his dream out to Hawaii in pursuit of that perfect surfing paradise. Explore the wave rich country of Panama while Darren spends three months working and traveling this beautiful Central American country. As the title "The Drift Towards" implies, this story tells how Darren was introduced to the sport of surfing and where he has drifted in his life because of it. I hope you enjoy my surfing stories and adventures.

Surfer Magazine offers the ultimate guide to catching the best waves from the pristine points of Santa Barbara to the sunny beaches of San Diego. For more than 250 spots, this sturdy manual sporting a water-resistant cover delivers a clear assessment of wave quality, prime wave conditions, and local hazards (both natural and manmade). Informative text answers the burning questions that surfers often pose: What tide? What wind? What swell? How are the locals? Are they worse than the sharksor the traffic? With helpful maps, photos, and directions, this Surfer's Guide is sure to become the gold standard for anyone looking to score the perfect wave.

Matt Warshaw knows more about surfing than any other person on the planet. After five years of research and writing, Warshaw has crafted an unprecedented history of the sport and the culture it has spawned. At nearly 500 pages, with 250,000 words and more than 250 rare photographs, The History of Surfing reveals and defines this sport with a voice that is authoritative, funny, and wholly original. The obsessive nature of this endeavor is matched only by the obsessive nature of surfers, who will pore through these pages with passion and opinion. A true category killer, here is the definitive history of surfing.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Andrew Molera State Park, Black's Beach, Black Point (Sonoma County, California), Bolsa Chica State Beach, Chevron Reef, Corona del Mar State Beach, Dana Point, California, Doheny State Beach, El Porto Beach, Emma Wood State Beach, Ghost Trees, Hermosa Beach, California, Huntington Beach, California, Imperial Beach, California, Leo Carrillo State Park, Malibu Lagoon State Beach, Mavericks (location), Newport Beach, California, Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, California, Redondo Beach, California, Red Triangle (Pacific Ocean), Rincon (surfspot), San Onofre State Beach, Scott Creek (Santa Cruz County), Seal Beach, California, Steamer Lane, Surfside, California, Swami's (surfing), T-Street, The Wedge (surfing), Torrance, California, Torrey Pines State Beach, Trestles, Windansea Beach, Zuma Beach. Excerpt: Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population. The estimate for 2012 shows that the population is 189,707. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by Seal Beach on the northwest, by Costa Mesa on the east, by Newport Beach on the southeast, by Westminster on the north, and by Fountain Valley on the northeast. Huntington Beach (aka HB) is known for its long 8.5-mile (13.7 km) stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing and beach culture. The ocean waves are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge-diffraction of open ocean swells around the island of Catalina. Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in Winter and from a combination of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the Summer focus on Huntington Beach creating consistent surf all year long thus giving HB the title 'Surf City, USA'. The Huntington...

With 1,500 alphabetical entries and 300 illustrations, this resource is a comprehensive review of the people, places, events, equipment, vernacular, and lively history of this fascinating sport.