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The average water temps as of 7-22-2019.
A man wearing a clown costume and hanging out the sunroof of a car led authorities on a pursuit from Orange County to Venice Beach before being taken into custody on Saturday, officials said.



A caller reported seeing the clown hanging out on the sunroof of a car while driving, CHP Officer Stephan Brandt said.

The driver refused to stop when officers tried to pull him over, kicking off a pursuit, the officer said.

The clown-masked suspect headed into Los Angeles County via the northbound 405 Freeway, then took the 90 Freeway to Venice Beach, Brandt said. The driver jumped out of the car and ran onto the beach, where he was captured by officers in front of a crowd of onlookers.



A female passenger who had been riding in the car was not arrested, he said.

The motivation for the driver's unusual behavior was not clear.

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Surfrider LA addresses the chronic erosion at Surfrider Beach:

"There has been a lot of discussion about Malibu in the weeks since LA County Beaches & Harbors dropped a dozen 2-ton boulders on the beach to keep the historic Wall at First Point from slipping into the sea. While this emergency situation could've been avoided with proactive planning and resource management, it has served to catalyze the community around short and long-term solutions that we can all (mostly) agree upon.

On July 8th, the Malibu City Council unanimously approved staff recommendations to issue an RFP (Request for Proposal) for a hydrological study of Malibu Lagoon and a coastal morphology study of Surfrider Beach. In addition, Council directed City staff to issue an LCPA (Local Coastal Plan Amendment) for a lagoon management plan. These are critical steps in what will be a long process to address chronic erosion at Surfrider Beach.
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See the official statement on the Surfrider LA Blog


Tickets for the for the 4th Annual Patagonia Film Festival are on sale now.

Patagonia Santa Monica will be showing 15 Films all 5 minutes or less that are in the theme: Water. There is a change in venues this year, the festival will be at the Broad Stage on 11th St in Santa Monica. Every person in attendance gets to vote on Best Overall, Best Environmental Story and Best Cinematography. The winners will be announced at the end of the night.

Tickets are $10 each, and 100% of the proceeds will go to the Surfrider West LA Chapter. A ticket gets you into the festival, 2 free drink tickets and free snacks.

The films will start promptly at 7:30, If you have not checked in by 7:20 your seat could be given away to someone on the wait list. So come at 6:30 and hang out with the Filmmakers, Surfrider LA and the Patagonia Santa Monica community.

Let's pack the house and support these awesome filmmakers. Click here to buy tickets.

Patagonia Santa Monica store
1344 4th Street ,
Santa Monica , California , 90401


RJP Surfing Photography has surf photos from Friday at Zeros. You can find all the full size and high-resolution images, in this photo gallery:

Surfing Zero's, 07/19/2019 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?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.


Thursday was another fun day of waves at Sunset and we got a lot of photos from Six12 Media. There are over 200 surf photos, here are just a few of them. The links to the full photo gallery of all 200+ photos is down below.














You can find these and over 200 more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in these 2 photo galleries:
Sunset - Thursday 7-18-2019 Photo Gallery #1
Sunset - Thursday 7-18-2019 Photo Gallery #2


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 surf spots?
Click Surf Spot Galleries for a list of past days.



Brian Behrens took his DJI Mavic Pro out for about 30 minutes after surfing all day afternoon Sunday. This footage is from about 7-8pm. Check out more from Brian on his Instagram: @brianbehrens


We usually wait till the end of the month for the Surf Photos Galleries Recap, but with some many photo days this month, here's a middle of the month recap of the galleries we got so far.

Below is the list of Surf Spots with the days we got photos for. Each link will take you to the page with a few surf photos and at the bottom of those photos there will be a link to that photographer's gallery where you can find all the surf photos for that day (many times there's well over 100 photos to check out). Most of these photographers offer high-res downloads and prints for sale.

Zeros

Zero's - Tuesday 7-2-2019 Photo Gallery
Zero's - Wednesday 7-3-2019 Photo Gallery
Zero's - Saturday 7-6-2019 Photo Gallery
Zero's - Tuesday 7-9-2019 Photo Gallery
Zeros - Thursday 7-11-2019 Photo Gallery
Zeros - Sunday 7-14-2019 Photo Gallery
Zeros - Monday 7-15-2019 Photo Gallery


Malibu

Malibu - Sunday 7-7-2019 Video Clips
Malibu - Friday 7-12-19 Photo Gallery


Topanga

Topanga - 4th Of July 2019 Photo Gallery
Topanga - Monday 7-8-2019 Photo Gallery
Topanga - Tuesday Evening 7-9-2019 Photo Gallery
Topanga - Wednesday 7-10-2019 Photo Gallery
Topanga - Thursday 7-11-2019 Photo Gallery
Topanga - Tuesday 7-16-2019 Photo Gallery


Sunset

Sunset - Friday 7-5-2019 Photo Gallery
Sunset - Monday 7-8-2019 Photo Gallery
Sunset - Tuesday 7-9-2019 Photo Gallery
Sunset - Wednesday 7-10-2019 Photo Gallery
Sunset - Thursday 7-11-2019 Photo Gallery
Sunset - Wednesday 7-17-2019 Photo Gallery




Venice Pier

Venice Pier - Saturday 7-6-2019 Photo Gallery


Wanna see last month's Photo Gallery Recap?
Click June Surf Spot Photos Recap