Greatest beach oops8/19/2023 ![]() The one on the south side is shorter and can have a nice little right hand wave peel off it at times. This place has become very popular with wind surfers in the afternoons when the westerly winds tend to howl. On a medium to small swell lower tides work better as it is shallower and allows the waves to break, were at high tide it just mushes out. On a large swell a higher tide works best and it holds the shape. Occasionally on a south swell the waves can get good too. Surfers like it there too for the same reason. The water is warmed up by a power plant up the river and they love it there. Sting rays go there for vacations and conventions. This place is the stingray capitol of the world. What a geek I am.Īt the far north end of Seal Beach is a spot that is normally called “Ray Bay.” It’s named that for the gazillions of stingrays that live there. So today I will regress and cover the spots I missed by my misconception over the country boundary. This dude who emailed me didn’t call me many rude names or anything but he did set me straight on the fact that the county line was at the river on the north side of Seal Beach.Īnyway, sorry all you Seal Beach river rats. To this day I always thought that Seal Beach was in Los Angeles County. And I went to elementary school in Seal Beach. After all I grew up right there, in Surfside Colony. Yes, I know it seems unlikely but, alas, it’s true.īut I swear I thought I knew where the end of the county was. ![]() O.K, I have been called an airhead more than one or two times in my life and fully accept the fact that there are a lot of things in this world that I could remotely be misinformed about. Yesterday I got an email asking why I left out Seal Beach. I, or so I thought, started at the north end of the county at Bolsa Chica State Beach and worked my way south as far as the “Wedge,” at the south end of the Balboa Peninsula. Last week I began a little series on how tides affect surfing conditions at Orange County beaches.
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