From SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug
and Patti Kishel
Fact, photo & fun notes
about surfing and the coast
Featured
Photos:
Tony Soriano took advantage of great surfing conditions this past weekend and sent these photos. Because of the big swells from Seal Beach to Newport Beach the waves reached 10-feet.
Test
Your Knowledge:
1. Who
was the first person to surf the Huntington Beach Pier (1914), amazing the
spectators with his surfing ability?
a. Duke Kahanamoku
b. Johnny Weissmuller c. George
Freeth
2. What does Ohana Day celebrate?
a. surfing b.
family c. patriotism
3. The oldest building in Huntington Beach,
built in 1904, currently houses which business?
a. The Longboard restaurant b. Java Point Cafe c. Rocky Mountain Candy store
4. The number one source of pollutants in our
oceans and waterways comes from:
a. residential water runoff b. oil spills from ships c. campers on the beach
5. Who discovered the Pacific Gyre (AKA The
Pacific Garbage Patch) giant whirlpool of trash and plastics floating in the
ocean?
a. Captain Cook
b. Captain Moore c. Captain
Kirk
Answers: 1c; 2b; 3a;
4a; 5b
Featured
Funnies:
Featured Facts:
Each reusable bag you use replaces the need for 400
single-use plastic bags.
A dripping bathroom faucet can waste 3,600 gallons of
water a year.
Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet.
Worldwide, people toss 4.5 trillion butts a year.
In the early days of surfing in Hawaii, when surfing was
the sport of the aliis (kings),
surfboards were as long as 25-feet and it took more than one person to carry
the boards to the water.
The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach is a wildlife refuge for numerous
migrating birds and its Sacred Cogged
Stone Site was the home to an ancient civilization dating back 8,000 years.
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