City council members and corporate CEO's, doctors and developers, lawyers and Nobel laureates count themselves among the local enthusiasts. With UCSD overlooking Black's Beach and Sunset Cliffs at Point Loma Nazarene's doorstep, it's no surprise that bright students with their pick of schools come from around the world to attend San Diego's coastal colleges.
In contrast to the traditional stereotype of surfers as lazy and illiterate, they are among the most ambitious and accomplished members of the local community. It was here, in the time of the old Windansea Surf Rats immortalized in Tom Wolfe's The Pump House Gang, that engineer Bob Simmons pioneered the lightweight fiberglass surfboard that has remained the standard to this day. Even though surfing has only been well known on the mainland for the last 60+ years, San Diego has played a prominent role in this brief history.
There are surf-themed restaurants and bars, surf fashion is practically obligatory among San Diego schoolchildren, and the whole city seems to be infected with excitement whenever the surf is up. This obsession has influenced the entire San Diego beach culture and even residents who don't surf embrace its important role in shaping our local identity. There are also patches of reef between Del Mar and Encinitas, man-made jetties at the Oceanside and Mission Bay harbor entrances, and the famous river-mouth set up of Trestles at San Diego's northernmost limits.Įven when surfers aren't out surfing, they're usually thinking about surf. Most of the shoreline consists of long beach breaks with primarily southwest exposure, and Point Loma and La Jolla are rocky points with a variety of reef breaks that work on north, west or south swells depending on their orientation. San Diego has 70 miles of open ocean coastline and as many distinct surf spots.
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