Come join Heal the Bay and the City of Santa Monica on Saturday, June 4 to learn about and clean up the Santa Monica beach dunes!

The City of Santa Monica is sponsoring a beach cleanup located at the Annenberg Community Beach House on Saturday June 4, 2022. The event will feature an organized cleanup event from Heal the Bay and a talk/tour of the Santa Monica Beach Dune Restoration Project from The Bay Foundation. Anyone is welcome to come show support for the beach dunes and participate in the beach cleanup for a chance to win some awesome prizes!

Date and time
Sat, June 4, 2022
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Location
Annenberg Community Beach House
415 Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica, CA 90402

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Surf Chats with Topanga Lou - Episode 1 with Heather.

Every Surf Chats has valuable information for beginner surfers to become better surfers.

Watch & listen as we get to know each surfer, surfer girl & grom who surf at Topanga Beach, California through their own words of their personal surfing journey.

Surf Videos fom Topanga now avaliable on Topanga Lou's Surf Videos Gallery

On Friday, June 3rd, LAPD West Traffic Division will be conducting an traffic enforcement task force in Pacific Division.

LA’s beloved grassroots LGBTQ+ celebration grows to two days and moves to a brand new beachside location: Venice Beach Recreation Center on Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5, 2022. Celebrate PRIDE by the beach with a diverse array of stage performances produced by Queer Moment, DJs, community booths, art installations, LGBTQ+ vendors, food trucks and everyone’s favorite queer dance party, Gaywatch (21+ only). Get your tickets now!

A beacon of diversity and acceptance, the artwork beams seven rays of laser light representing the color spectrum of a natural rainbow. The presentation is poetic, magical and powerful.



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Following a two-year pause due to the pandemic, Heal the Bay's Bring Back the Beach Gala is back.

Takes place at the Jonathan Club on the Beach in Santa Monica on June 2, 2022.

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Venice Pride presents Artist Yvette Mattern’s Global Rainbow installation in association with Bacardi nightly from June 3 to 5 across the California Coast.

A beacon of diversity and acceptance, the artwork beams seven rays of laser light representing the color spectrum of a natural rainbow. The presentation is poetic, magical and powerful.

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Malibu - Close-Up.


Topanga.


Sunset.


Santa Monica - Bay Street.


Venice Breakwater.

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"Master Bikini over 35 compete at the Muscle Beach Bodybuilding Championships in Venice on Monday, May 30, 2022."

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Sunday, May 29th: 2-3′ at average spots, 3-4’+ summer focal points.
Old SSW swell drops to smaller leftovers as fresh long-period SW swell starts to fill in. Better spots are in knee-waist high waves. NW windswell rebounds through the day and should provide enough juice to cross up some of the smaller Southern Hemi lines. Moderate westerly wind develops for the afternoon.

Memorial Day (Monday), May 30th: Widespread 3-4′ with 5-6’+ sets at summer focal points.
Fun, long-period SW swell builds further Monday and peaks into Tuesday. Note that there will be a decent amount of NW swell mix in the water as well so a lot of spots in play over the holiday. Expect waist-chest high waves through most, while good spots easily hit shoulder-head high. Summer focal points will go slightly overhead. Note that the front end of this swell will be somewhat shadowed and lully due to the French Polynesian shadow.

Tuesday, May 31st: More 3-4′ waves at most, 5-6′ sets at summer standouts.
Similar to previous day as long-period SW swell tops out, while NW swell mix begins to fade. There should still be a few good corners at the beachbreaks but as that NW swell drops, summer points/reefs will look best. Continued waist-chest high surf with good spots shoulder-head high. Again, summer focal points push overhead on sets.

Originally published on Surfline