"Surf’s up! LA County beaches are reopening this Wednesday, May 13 for individual activities like swimming, surfing, jogging, and walking."

“LA County Beaches are reopening this Wednesday, May 13 for individual activities like swimming, surfing, jogging and walking." Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn announced today.

LA Beaches & Harbors confirmed the opening:

On 5/13, LA Co. beaches reopen w/ the following rules:
• Individual/family activities & exercise ONLY
• No lying or sitting on sand, canopies, coolers or picnicking
• 6+ ft. physical distancing & masks REQUIRED
• Parking lots, bike path, piers & boardwalks remain CLOSED



But take note, these city officials don't agree with each other on this, so one of them might cock block this decision. Also, Malibu said it's beaches are different than those down south, so they may nee additional time to set health guidelines before they open.

Around 5:00PM, Santa Monica has agreed to open their beaches via their social media accounts:

"Santa Monica beaches will reopen this Wednesday, May 13 for ocean activities and exercise with restrictions - specifically NO gathering, sitting & sunbathing."

For more of our coverage of the Coronavirus lockdown, closures, and how our local surf community and businesses are doing, CLICK HERE

According to Surfline, "Monday, May 11th: SSW/S swell puts well exposed spots in 4-5′ waves, sets up to 7′ at best breaks. Smaller NW swell eases. Light early morning winds due, moderate onshores by the afternoon. "



"Holding SSW/S (200-180) swell maintains chest-head high+ surf at good exposures in North LA. Easing, secondary NW pulse is mainly running thigh-waist high at exposures. Combo beachbreaks that pull in that swell blend will see some fun peaks. Light early morning winds due to turn to rising onshores later morning then mainly moderate WNW flow for the afternoon."

Here's some of the surf photos from a quarantined Sunday morning at the Sunset (also known as "Vons" as it tagged in our Instagram Stories).

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by Hulu.

These are just a few of the 200+ 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 galleries for this day, check them out, the links to the complete galleries are down below.



















You can find 200 more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in these 2 photo galleries:

Sunset - Sunday -5-10-2020 Photo Gallery #1
Sunset - Sunday -5-10-2020 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 local surf spots?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.

Here some photos from Saturday at Sunset . These photos were shot by Six12 Media. There are about 40 surf photos, here are just a few of them. The link to the full photo gallery of all the photos is down below.










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

Sunset - Saturday 5-9-2020 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 surf spots?
Click Surf Spot Galleries for a list of past days.

The fence Santa Monica erected to keep people off the bike path has been defeated, with an epic result.

For more of our coverage of the Coronavirus lockdown, closures, and how our local surf community and businesses are doing, CLICK HERE

As we first reported via our Instagram Story, a bunch of people showed up today (Saturday, May 9th) at the entrance to the Santa Monica Pier to protest. Adults of all ages, a lot of kids, held signs and waved flags. And some girls who were there twerking for the cause.

Most were protesting California's quarantine closures, some were protesting the vaccine companies. And about three were there to sell hats and masks.

The lady on the bullhorn running the circus made it known to all that she is from San Diego and she is a big protester who is facing jail time down there.

For more of our coverage of the Coronavirus lockdown, closures, and how our local surf community and businesses are doing, CLICK HERE

Yet another change in the plans of reopening LA beaches.

Now Los Angeles County public health officials said that they will "use this weekend to test whether people can obey loosened stay-at-home directives before deciding whether to lift some coastal restrictions next week."

“We are going to pay a lot of attention to how well we all do this weekend in terms of being able to comply with the directives,” Barbara Ferrer, director of Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health, said during her daily coronavirus briefing on Friday.

"If things go well," she added, "officials might relax more rules next week."

“We’re looking forward to hopefully getting there by next week.”

This damn lady is always giving vague answers about this.

Basically, they are going to see how well people on the reopened hiking trials follow the rules. The whole keeping six feet from others, no large groups, and that everyone wears a face covering.

For more of our coverage of the Coronavirus lockdown, closures, and how our local surf community and businesses are doing, CLICK HERE

I got to witness a once in a lifetime phenomenon, bioluminescent algae appeared in the ocean and beaches in California. We ran down to Venice beach, when we arrived this is what we saw! I had to jump in the sea, it was glowing all around me, I literally felt like I was in Avatar! pic.twitter.com/KA43YoGLKA

— Louis Cole (@funforlouis) May 7, 2020

According to Surfline, " Good run of SSW swell fills in over the weekend, secondary NW swell shows then."



"Saturday, May 9th: 3-4′ waves from building SSW swell — more size PM. Light/variable to southerly AM wind, light+ to moderate PM onshores. Fresh SSW swell (205-185) is on the rise all day. Most breaks top out around waist-stomach high in the morning. By the afternoon/evening look for the long-period summertime focal points to be running chest-shoulder-head high+. Smaller NW swell blends in through the morning, rebuilding before dark. Light SE trending S morning winds shift more westerly and rise to light+/locally moderate in the afternoon before easing through the end of the day. Patchy morning fog."

"Sunday, May 10th: 3-5′ surf off peaking SSW/S at good exposures, more size at top spots. Some new NW swell joins in. More southerly morning winds for southern regions. Healthy, long period Southern Hemi shifts more southerly, SSW/S (200-180) and maxes out. That sets up chest-head high+ waves for exposed breaks in North LA. Combo beachbreaks that pull in that multi-directional swell mix will see some fun peaks. Light morning winds due from LA northward. Mainly moderate SW-W afternoon onshores, expected to ease by the evening. Patchy morning fog."