The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Monday issued an Ocean Water Use Warning for seven area beaches, cautioning visitors to avoid swimming, surfing or playing in the waters due to high bacteria levels.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is warning residents who plan to visit local beaches to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in the ocean water due to high bacteria levels. The ocean water warnings are for the following beaches:

Malibu Lagoon at Surfrider Beach
Marie Canyon Storm Drain at Puerco Beach
Santa Monica Canyon Creek at Will Rogers State Beach
Topanga Canyon Beach
Santa Monica Pier
Mothers Beach in Marina Del Rey
Inner Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro.

Laboratory results from three local agencies are displayed on the map. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) Environmental Health Recreational Waters Program, collects ocean water samples from the mainland, once a week throughout the year. DPH collects an additional five samples from Avalon on Santa Catalina Island beginning in April through October. The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (SD) collects ocean water samples at selected sites on the mainland, once each week throughout the year. The Beach Cities of Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes (BC) jointly collect water samples within their cities, once a week throughout the year. DPH, SD, and BC also resample sites that have exceeded State Standards for bacteria in ocean water. The City of Los Angeles, Environmental Monitoring Division, LA Sanitation (HYP) collects water samples from various sites, one to five times per week, all year round. LA City also collects samples at some DPH sites as required by their State NPDES permit.

The public is notified when a site has exceeded State Standards for bacteria in ocean water on this website, by telephone hotline, and by signs posted at the impacted beaches.

Use the map below to obtain the current water quality status of your favorite beach location. Use your mouse wheel to zoom into a particular location. Click on the marker to identify the sampling location. This map is updated as conditions change.

Leo Carrillo and Santa Monica are among the filming locations from the 1991 Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, Cult Classic.

We have some photos from the June 3rd Paddle Out for Bob Boreman at Ocean Park. The link to the photo gallery is below:

Bob Boreman Memorial Paddle Out Photo Gallery

"9 years ago we were getting ready to open the shop! A lot has gone down in those few years, but one thing remains… we throw some sweet parties! 🍻🎉🍾 Come celebrate 9 years in business with an art show, free drinks and some wicked food! It’s going down on Friday, July 7th at 7:30pm! Thanks for all the support over the years!!!"

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3216 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica,
CA 90404, United States

Wave House, is now available for $49.5 million

- A house that juts out over Malibu's coveted beach hit the market for the first time in 36 years.
- Rod Stewart bought it in the 1970s and sold it to record executive Mo Ostin in 1987.
- The house was designed to look like a set of cresting waves by California architect Harry Gesner.

About the house: Wave House was designed by architect Harry Gesner for old friends and fellow surfers Gerry and Glenn Cooper. Located on the beach in Malibu, California, the house is Gesner's most famous work. The design was highly regarded by Jørn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House. Though denied by Gesner, the house is often cited as an influence on Utzon's design for the opera house.

In 1956 Gesner was contacted by friends from his post-war time at Lake Arrowhead, Glenn and Gerry Cooper. The couple asked for his assistance in finding a coastal site in Malibu. They found a site with good surfing, and Gesner camped at the location. According to Gesner, he paddled offshore on his surfboard and sketched the house's design in grease pencil on his surfboard, looking back at the site. Gesner wanted a shape like those found in the ocean, and used curved glue-laminated beams for the roof structure, with a shingled roof surface resembling fish scales.

Gesner designed the house to extend into the surf at high tide. The Wave House was designed with projecting rooflines resembling breaking waves, cantilevered over circular balconies. The interior focused on a central conversation pit and fireplace overlooking the ocean. The house received widespread attention. The same year, Danish architect Jørn Utzon submitted his concept for the Sydney Opera House design competition, with sail or wave-like forms. Utzon's design was compared to Gesner's, and in the early 1960s Utzon called Gesner to express his appreciation for Gesner's work. Neither architect felt that the Opera House design was influenced by Wave House, but both acknowledged each others' work.

The house was designed in two parts, with the dramatic projecting beachfront living area surrounded by circular balconies, and a much plainer rectangular children's wing to the rear, against the hillside. The two sections enclose a landscaped interior court. Arrival was via a stairway and an underpass under the children's section to the courtyard, which serve as the formal entry.

Wave House was later owned in the 1970s by Rod Stewart, who commissioned Gesner to design railings for the initially rail-less balconies. The house was further altered with the installation of large concrete piers to support it, since the retreat of the beachfront left it more exposed to ocean waves.

The house was featured in the 2019 movie Yesterday . Gesner's residence, the Sandcastle House, is next door.

Gallery by Simon Berlyn, Info via Wiki

Share the stoke of summer with your local community at Surfrider LA and the World Surf League as we celebrate International Surfing Day! We will be meeting on the beach at Tower 20, Santa Monica between 10am-12pm on Saturday, 6/17 to pick up trash and learn about waste management on our shorelines. Dune Sunscreen, Sister Betsy Surf Wax, and EMOcean will all have donated product on the sand with us as well.

Prior to the beach cleanup, Dream Team Society will be hosting a casual surf and beach hang from 9am-10am. All types of surf, boogie, or swim craft are welcome. Please bring your own board.

Started in 2005, International Surfing Day is an international celebration of the love of surfing and our beaches for all people to enjoy. The day was established to raise awareness and support for our world’s beaches and coastal environments.

Sat, Jun 17, 2023
10:00AM-12:00PM PDT

For more info & to sign up, Click Here

Mike, aka German in Venice, vlogs about daily life in Venice Beach, and the nearby communities.

"I met eight other Youtubers in Venice Beach. I had no idea what we are going to film, but it was an epic day ending up on the Santa Monica pier. We had so much fun matching up famous movie locations, musicians living in Venice, and other famous people. Venice was the stomping ground for the famous group The Doors. What a fun day"

If you would like to support German in Venice with some gas money or you want to buy him a coffee, you are welcome to donate to his paypal account: https://paypal.me/germaninvenice

Sunday morning at the public restrooms on Ocean Fronmt walk at Brooks Ave in Venice Beach. No info has been released yet.

Photo by Anthony Valadez

Here's surfing photos from Sunday, June 3rd at Ocean Park.

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by Ocean Park 26. Most of these photos were after the Bob Boreman Memorial Paddle Out.

These are just a few of the photos from this session. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete photo gallery for this day, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.












You can find 30+ more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:

Ocean Park - Saturday 6-3-2023 Photo Gallery


If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.

And be sure to check out all the hats, tees, and more from Ocean Park 26.