What happened to Killer Dana?

[@brucehoefferle3741]

I had to go fight a war in a place called Viet Nam, when i came back home Killer Dana was gone, I was heart broken

[@the_grand_tourer]

Wow! grt story, better than 'Big Wednesday' ... sent to fight on foreign land and expensive marina built to feed the greed of corporate America.

[@michaelthomas366]

I'm sorry.

[@lucavittor6327]

No …. Your history kill me now … ciao from Italy… great respect .

[@jordanwilliamson2683]

Dude, that is brutal. I’m sorry

[@jimbossjames]

Choked me up when he said “And Killer Dana never broke again”. Sad story.

[@lornalarrycollins3767]

This is a great description of the death of Killer Dana. The bulk of the actual surfing footage is ours, and the primary surfer riding the waves is Larry Collins. So glad you found and enjoyed our old home movies. Not many photographers actually shot video of Dana Point. We are very grateful to have been there to do so. Loved the dialogue. Larry knew and surfed with all the legends you mention. Phil Edwards was the best. Most are celebrated at Waterman's Park at the entrance to Doheny. Glad they are not forgotten.

[@brianbirc]

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[@bm5799]

@@brianbircthis is the worst gibberish glory days bullsht I have ever seen.

[@lkcollins75]

Here are the original videos. The first is about the fourth generation copied from the original film to video to DVD. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWK6oquVhMhgqqM The second is a re-digitized version of the original film. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6eaYnt6rKeErqc. We have other early surfing films on KZbin. kzbin.info/door/eMRRBUYsFm6SApsR0pQIwQ

[@mozdickson]

Gracious response, appreciated from New Zealand ❤

[@krishnaveganathar]

@@bm5799weird bro.

[@1234waveskier]

I’m 78 now, and grew up surfing Dana Point and Doheny. Such a loss to the surfing world and many or most will never know what it was like.

[@NateGoesOutside]

Having grown up surfing in Dana point in the 90s, killer Dana was the stuff of legend. We lamented the loss of a wave that we would never witness. Thanks for sharing this.

[@macscotsman51]

There’s at least a 50/50 chance I’m in one of these vintage films. Dana was THE spot I wanted my parents to drop me off at (I was like 13 years old) for an entire day in the water. 60+ years have passed and all my memories are of awesome days no matter how small, medium, or close out scary it was.

[@montanamornings8526]

Me too

[@hotttt28]

What a sad loss . Bring it back and restore Killer Dana !

[@lkcollins75]

Unfortunately, it is too late...

[@krishnaveganathar]

@@lkcollins75we don’t know until we try it.

[@shaunmac3511]

@@krishnaveganathar We need to find some passionate billionaire surfers to pool together and help us out! They are out there somewhere, someday..

[@HotdogJohnson-tj8gg]

My neighbor and friend Ken Page used to tell me stories about Killer Dana when I was a kid growing up in S. Fla. I found an article in surfer about its destruction and showed him, he was devastated. He eventually died from agent orange poisoning in 95. I picture him surfing that long beautiful point in heaven!

[@DavisSarvey]

Orange county forever cursed by greed

[@kailaniandi]

It's a tax to keep some people out. If you can make it here you can easily make it anywhere. Some people are not going to be winners.

[@edog949c6]

​@kailaniandi remember even the loosers get lucky sometimes.

[@kailaniandi]

@@edog949c6 very true

[@chompers11]

​@@kailaniandi sure, but its full of absolute spoiled brat losers now so... why try and make it there?

[@Hayden-sp1ol]

If Camp Pent was gone it would all be TOAST....!

[@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336]

Thanks for posting this- I'm going to show it to my dad who used to glass for Hobie and has told me stories about Killer Dana my whole life. He's 80 now and he's come to terms with it but i don't think he's ever gotten over it entirely.

[@jamescox8402]

I saw it and surfed it and the 'other' breaks Meepees and Boneyard and a couple of others. Truly sad. The irony is my dad put a boat in that marina and I never set foot on it. Nice work, thank you.

[@Matthew_berry6]

Boneyard is still there, crowded as ever

[@rolandwrinkle1669]

The biggest day of my surfing career was at Dana point. And I’ll never forget it. My brother and I sat on our boards on the beach for a half an hour before we mustarded the courage to go out. It was really hard to paddle into the set waves. And if you tried to do it and failed, there was a cleanup set right behind it and that was death. My brother was scrambling furiously to paddle up the face of a really big wave, when he decided to bail. Ironically, his board made it over the top, but he got crushed. We had to drive down to Doheny to retrieve his board.

[@phillipphinney206]

Learned to surf at Doheny in the mid 70's. We used to call it "Slowheny," until I learned that, once upon a time, it was called Killer Dana and heard stories of the waves. Blew my mind.

[@johnpaulsen207]

Same here. We alternated between Cottons Point, Doheny, Dana Point when breaking. Sometime San Onofre (close friend’s dad was a member of the Surf Club; you otherwise didn’t get in unless you were military or snuck in.

[@jimbrunett9224]

I started surfing Doheny when I was 12 years old, that would be 1974. My mom would drop me off and I would surf all day till she came and picked me up in the afternoon, best times of my life. I heard all the stories about killer Dana but sadly never got to see it for myself. We use to camp at the harbor when it was being built. It is too bad they had to ruin such a beautiful peace of history.

[@michaelthomas366]

I did.

[@OverFears]

Born in raised 15 minutes from Dana crazy to think a break like that will never be seen again here

[@brucebarnes9638]

I got my first surfboard in the summer of 1962. What great videos from what used to be Killer Dana. Thanks for the memories, Cowabunga.

[@oneheartfire]

I lived in Capo Beach for 10 years in my youth, and would ride my bike and board to Doheny to surf a few times a week. There were old pictures of Killer Dana in all the old shops and restaurants around capo beach and Dana Point. I always wished I could travel back in time and experience that wave and the culture that existed there. I moved to south oc in the 90s, and even as a kid then I knew I had missed out on the true glory days of southern California. Now it's all tract homes and shopping malls, and the march of "progress" goes on.

[@powerlooper9121]

I was lucky to grow up on Oahu in the '70's. Surfed big Pipeline when 10 guys was a crowd. Hawaii got too expensive, so I had to move to the mainland in 1980. I was working on tugboats in Long Beach with a crew member who told me about surfing in Long Beach, before they built that huge long jetty. He said it was a blast, and they surfed all the time on long peeling waves. IMHO, Hawaii is also now ruined by all the wealthy mainland Haolis who have bought up most of the property. I just get sad when I go back to Kailua - it no longer has its soul.... now only for the rich.

[@N3vDawg]

some of us are still trying to fight for the culture. capitalism is a brutal force.

[@thatlovejones]

The power of money was unstoppable. Today we have Surfrider and social media to fight those who would wreck great surf spots just to make a buck, and the fight goes on. On a big swell you can still see the remnants of Killer Dana, just a small space behind the parking lot of the maritime museum shops. Sad.

[@evilish888]

My friend, the power of money is and always will be unstoppable...it's called greed

[@brucebarnes9638]

Great memories of surfing Killer. Dana in the 60's. Sad to see it taken away.

[@SurfLife4me]

Grew up there, learned to surf at DoHo and SanO. As a teen (late 70’s/early 80’s), the outside still broke when a big storm rolled through. I’ve also seen waves breaking by the outer harbor wall, you could ride them down to hole in the fence if you were lucky/good enough…huge waves! So rare though.

[@adhndrsn]

A very nice video and well told story. I’m 71 years old and remember vividly the 1966 13 year old me, just getting good in Hermosa Beach, being devastated that I would never get to ride Dana. The anger at the greed and the corruption of the ocean has never left me. A few years later a much better me would be furious when Stanley’s was ruined as the 101 was widened and an on-ramp built exactly there, with no regard again for the impact on the ocean and the land. The places I most loved to surf through my surfing life were Trestles in Orange County, and spots in Ventura County, including Stanley’s. I lived in Ventura County for many years and every time I went up north to Rincon, Little Rincon, or further, I would look to the west and experience a pang of sadness. Conversely, any time going down south to Trestles, or to San Diego County spots, I’d remember Dana Point (Killer Dana) which I only got to see in surf films when I was a kid. Thanks for posting this.

[@svgitana2499]

Man I kept my boat there in the 90’s, I had no clue that had happened! Also learned how to surf in Doheny beach! How utterly sad, it’s a great marina but I would’ve been totally against it being built knowing now what I know!!

[@ambienteterrazas]

For some reason this hit me, I tought of my local spot and the idea of it disappearing, I would definitely be mourning.

[@keonejohnson1068]

Thanks for posting the video. It brought back good memories. I surfed there a few times in the 1960s, but most of the time I surfed at San Onofre.

[@sackofmojojr.1758]

Tragic. 😢 I was too young to have ever surfed it.

[@matthewjohnson2070]

I’m far too young to have ever surfed Killer Dana but I grew up surfing the beaches on the other side of the point. Even 80 years after its destruction I still see photos and hear stories about that break. Sad story

[@bobbellamy7075]

This is such a sad story. I was born in March of 1966 and never got to surf it . They did the same thing when they built LA and Long Beach harbor.

[@scottgorman7166]

Yes they did. But the El Nino of 82/83 my buddy Jon and I surfed inside the harbor at Belmont Shore on some 5 foot breaks. It was unreal to see it breaking there. I was living up the street and just walked there.

[@bobbellamy7075]

@@scottgorman7166 Hey Scott, That’s cool , I surfed it that year as well. It was the same day that the Seal Beach pier went down . I was in 11th grade and my buddies and I skipped school to get it . We were probably out there at the same time.

[@scottgorman7166]

@@bobbellamy7075 fun times in the water that year. Surf was unbelievable all over the coast. Unfortunately I left Cal 14 years ago, (my buddy left in 89) couldn't deal with the costs of living there and politics. Been surfing since I was 11 and I'm 70 now. But sure do miss mother ocean. Stay safe in the swells. Save some money and go surf the world, it will always stay with you (and replay it when talking to buddies).✌

[@tonybaker-yh4eg]

I never surfed Killer Dana, but Boneyard was a very sweet spot and the tidepools and reefs were gorgeous. Sad that it wasn't appreciated for its natural beauty and surf. What a bummer!

[@rockerbob949]

I grew up in Dana Point and my parents still live in the same house we grew up in since 1977. I went to Dana Hills High. I love the area

[@jeffhansman2829]

Started surfind in SoCal in the early 60s and camped at Doheny St. Beach every summer. We'd go look at Dana Pt. and, for some reason, never paddled out. Our loss, but Doheny was usually just great. It has been ruined by yet another breakwater, like so many spots on the Calif. coast. Good to see those waves and riders.

[@tomvertz5875]

And they continue to ruin Dana point to this day! ..

[@DiscGoStu]

Rode my first wave at Doheny sometime in the late 80’s and spent a lot of my childhood there. Even without knowing the whole story or ever having seen Killer Dana with my own eyes, it was always a solemn place, like a haunted house. I’ve always wanted the breakwater in my native Long Beach to come down, but I’d defer if Killer Dana could be brought back to life. OUTSTANDING video, thank you 🤙

[@travisguide4516]

I dealt with both breaks living in long beach and surfing doheney

[@MPFConservation]

This stupid small harbor did not need to be built. Had the planners had even a bit of imagination, they would have dredged the "river" that came out into Doheny and put a harbor in Capo Valley. If you watched the immense rocks they had to move in the harbor, you would understand this was a feasible plan -- AND, the valley would have had an amazing boat harbor that ran into the valley and all that farmland which was built on by cheaply overpriced track homes would have been worth so much more as there would have been a harbor in front of their canyon home. But they didn't listen to me, a young architect. They ruined surfing, they ruined the best shell collecting and places for abalone. I truly hate stupid developers and most are exactly that.

[@daviddigital6887]

This is a very sad story. I'm not a surfer or from California and it makes me mad. I'm 60 years old and many of the places where I grew up hunting, fishing, swimming have been ruined by development and pollution. It's like having your heart ripped out.

[@DaveEPie]

Mpf what a great idea - I can see it now- Tragedy that they didn’t see your vision.

[@shaunmac3511]

@@DaveEPie Found my new #1 thing I'd do with a time machine...

[@andrewp1075]

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

[@tomkraushaar4220]

my father surfed there in the late 1940,s early 50,s before Korean War etc.Another beautiful surf area was Long Beach that whole area was a south swell magnet. Some where I have some photos from before the Long Beach harbor was built.

[@lupodisol]

I know this area quiet well, it was a tragedy against nature for the sake of money. Dana Point and the adjacent areas were naturally stunningly beautiful, now they area is filled with a polluting yacht harbor and trinket shops and class B restaurants surrounded by overpriced homes that do not complement the natural beauty of the area.

[@nathansackett6890]

PS the neighborhood behind it isn't million dollar homes it's the rental apartments,there actually was a mobile home park closest to doho till 2000.....you don't know shit about the area....I grew up there. My kids were born when I lived on la Serena drive off golden lantern. Your a kook

[@b.g.tercero2351]

Couldn't agree more! Get rid of the breakwater and let the surf sort things out!

[@evinwhiteson4902]

I don't see it this way. But I was born and raised laguna Beach1963. Lived there till I was 30. Making surfboards. My mom and dad still live in the same house I grew up in laguna . My dad surfed killer Dana on its big days but brook street was his mainstay. I learned to surf at Doheney. The perfect easy wave. I used to play in Dana point Harbour and fish off the jetty every weekend. I used to go fishing on the cattle boats and learned to windsurf at the baby beach. I have very fond memories of the Harbour. Jet skie, windsurfing,sailing. We had a hobie. I go there every morning when I visit my parents.So my life was definately improved by the Dana point Harbour. Can't imnagine I would ever trade those memories for a slow right hander that looks to me like a below average wave in southern California. I surfed tresstles a lot before high school. That's a real wave at lowers. That's my point of view

[@DeerfieldDiscGolf]

This is so sad. Dana Point would be the most famous surf spot in the world with those breaks left alone.

[@stevecarey2030]

As a surfer from So Cal, there is definitely a different vibe at the beaches that had artificial harbors installed or that just don't have any rideable waves. My sister lived in Dana point for many years so I would go there sometimes. Definitely more of a boater vibe. Nothing wrong with that but places like Newport and Huntington have both surfing and boating cultures. They don't really mix with each other much but they both fit in. So when I'm in Dana Point or Long Beach it just feels like a huge part of the experience is missing.

[@BaliLife-lr7dl]

The upside is guys like Bruce Brown had to find new surf spots. In his case, created a film "Endless Summer" which created an interest in traveling the world seeking new surf spots. We lost Killer Dana, gained thousands of better, more exotic places. Life is a series of trade offs.

[@AEVMU]

Still a break on the right swell (two a actually) out at the headlands. Can get quite good and its one of the very few spots left that isnt really well known.

[@hehexd4557]

Thanks I’m going out with 5 wave storms 😀😅

[@robertlapin813]

I loved surfing Dana Point from 63 to 67. The funky winding road down to the parking lot. 5th grade to 9th grade. 63 to 67. My friend's mom liked the spot and we'd sometimes stay in a funky motel up from the Hobie Shop for a nice weekend. All that property along the cliffs was vacant. From up there we would watch a spot that always had lines but never saw it break. It would have been a foiler's dream. I can't believed they destroyed it with that harbor. Hear it messed up Doheny as well. They could have put that jetty south of the pier and saved Dana Point and still had the harbor all the way to Doheny. We used to save the word Killer for Killer Capo which was the name for the Capistrano Pier that could hold a big beach break swell. I never got to see Dana Point big but the lifeguard there used to tell us stories about it.

[@robertlapin813]

I lived in Hawthorne and got hooked on surfing the summer before fifth grade. I was 11 years old and we were selling our home to move to San Bernardino. My mom took us down Rosecrans at 8 am and dropped us off at Manhatten Beach and picked us up at 5 pm summer of 63. I body surfed, mat surfed, and built and rode my own skim boards. At the end of that summer I defied my mom and rented my first surfboard at Hermosa Beach for 50 cents an hour. Caught and rode the soup and I was hooked.

[@robertlapin813]

Guess I need to edit that timeline as I was living inland and when we found out we could get on Camp Pendleton and surf San Onofre with our Norton AFB sticker that"s where we went 8th and 9th grade and trips to Doheny and Dana Point stopped so I knew they were going to build a harbor there but never saw the destruction. I let for England in 67 and returned in 70 to Santa Cruz.

[@MichaelKristin]

One of my families favorite beaches is just the the north of baby beach in the harbor. Sad story, wish I could have ridden that break.

[@gdfan618]

subscribed!!!!!!!! always heard of killer dana when i would surf doheny as a kid.

[@booknoteswisdom6799]

Bravo, 5 Stars, great doc. Bro im sick, I sailed to the turn around for years as one of my fav, but now I see what was. I will dream of that next time, see you at the boneyard. B.N.W. Peace.

[@decarosbro7422]

they did the same thing to Cabrillo point in San Pedro when they built the breakwater for the LA harbor. Of course nobody surfed back then but still bad luck for us… I saw a very old photo from around 1880 with about a 3/4 mile right hander breaking there… recently Surfrider Foundation petitioned to rebuild the breakwater so the waves could come back but huge pushback from shipping companies.. if you look at old photos of Cabrillo point from the harbor planning days you can see that there were about 4 right hand points starting from Point Fermin, stretching all the way down to 5th street in San Pedro… That’s about 3 miles .. I can only imagine what San Pedro would be like today if it were home to three Malibu style waves..

[@clarkewi]

I saw Killer Dana before the harbour was built and it was magic.

[@odrabravo]

Before the landfill that widened the lanes for cars, Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro was perhaps the best beach break in the city. The sandbars offered excellent surfing conditions. Until the landfill project in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which widened the beach with coarser sand and created more space for cars. Today, it's not a shadow of what it once was, to the sound of bossa nova and the Beatles.

[@SurfChaser831]

Old timers say that they’d go to Dana Cove when all other spots were closing out. They knew “Killer Dana” was the last spot in Southern California to hold big swells and didn’t disappoint.

[@barclaysauers255]

.....and another thing. Why do you think, 58 years later, that the homes along Beach Rd. are being washed out and the railroad tracks at Cotton's are "falling into the sea", as Jimmy Hendricks would say! Please reply.

[@danielbenfreeman]

What a tragedy. We used to hang out at the arches and imagine what it used to be.

[@Ais4Drew]

I Have family in Dana and when life gets to be too much I fly out for a week of surfing and fun. Funny enough I went the local shop to do a rental on my first visit out and some of the old heads (said lovingly) were talking about killer Dana and how if you washed your board would break and that’s one of the reasons they called it “Killer Dana”. The name of that surf shop, is “Killer Dana Surf Shop” and I’ve been stopping in on my visits to rent a board and get some killer merch ever since. Im glad I now know the story behind the namesake and why everyone loves it so much! 😎

[@HARDL3FT]

They should've dugout the Capo Beach/river bed area and made the harbor there! Great presentation, thank you.

[@johnmartin2079]

Wasn't salt creek the last break in this area, and I've haven't heard that name in 30 yrs

[@mrkroeger]

Salt creek is to the north. It still has a good point and Sandy beach break. The development is on top of the cliffs.

[@ferp420]

if you catch it just right you can still get those big waves ive ridden it at 15ft with pitching barrels before the wind kicked up and blew it out dosent happen often but it dose still happen

[@samuelsavage-ll6tl]

It was a beautiful place and it should have been preserved. The yachts are not nearly as great as Killer Dana was. Great description and history.

[@montanamornings8526]

I learned to surf at Doheny and surfed Dana Point Pier a few times. I remember one place to eat. A Swedish buffet.

[@TheLemon333]

Nice production! -Maybe they can demo that wall, after all these years? There's a lot of Rich lawyer surfers in SoCal.

[@hyperionsound]

So sad - thanks for this homage to the break

[@audreyjackson5366]

My cousin Hal Sachs loved DANA, he was the first lifeguard at Doheny beach and had many stories about his Pals in Surf culture there. It was a harmful blow hard

[@Ranger504th]

Fantastic! Please keep making these for sure! Do the Wedge and Jetties next 😊

[@PiersDonald]

Fascinating video good to learn more about waves newish to surfing

[@legentilhommedefortune]

La Barre in France ( used to be similar break ) had same destiny ..

[@Caveman-vr9rw]

Such a tragedy 😢 💔

[@travisguide4516]

I have a killer dana hat on right now never knew what it meant i did grow up surfing doheney (what is left 🙇🏼)

[@soulrebelsurf]

These videos are great. You should make more.

[@andyhoms2001]

So sad. I almost cried. I just hope we are moving towards a harmony with nature, and just leaving things be. Money isn't everything... absolutely not! 😢

[@daveboehne]

Great video thank you 🤙🏽

[@anthonycharles-d5i]

My ex-girlfriend used to work in the harbor at a restaurant called the "Wind and Sea." I never realized it replaced a break with the same name.

[@krishnaveganathar]

Rage. Pure rage.

[@DaveAfterTomorrow]

Great footage. Great mini doc. Did you move onto another channel?

[@alarahillton1343]

This video should be called Surfers Lament/Dana Point

[@jodybryant1752]

I love the history of killer Dana. San clement and Dana point . Such a beautiful place. I have a feeling the beach will be brought back by mother nature. Unfortunately many places will not be there. Due to our early climate. It’s difficult to read , to see and know California, little secret is being challenged hy Mother Nature this year 2024 . God bless Dana Point and San Clemente and all who love this beautiful place !

[@Jabiwoki]

Great channel! Please make more content soon!

[@jakemarlow8998]

Having spent the last 50 years living in south OC, I can appreciate the historical significance of Killer Dana. Having said that, I haven't seen any footage that would suggest it was a good wave. Definitely not a Rincon or Malibu. It appears to have been a mushy, sectiony, warbly wave. Nonetheless, building that harbor sucked.

[@jake7302]

It looks like doheny as a point

[@snowvalley11]

It's not dead. We still have the boneyard, second spot, the hammer, little Hawaii, and campgrounds..Still lots of good waves to have a blast with

[@marshallkohlhaas80]

Kalapana on the big island was a world class wave also lost. and Pohoiki due to "natural lava"

[@FerdnandFreeholi]

Let's hear it for progress!!!!

[@blindlemonpiesky]

Great vid. So rad, so sad.

[@Hibbard1986]

are you the voice of the sandlot narrator - rip to killer dana

[@someroob7915]

Tragic!

[@Paul11B2P]

What a shame.

[@mitchyoung93]

I have sailed a lot out of Dana Point marina, and was born when Killer Dana, was already gone. Still kinda a bummer. To make things worse, the 'powers that be' have even destroyed the 'vibe' of the harbor, Canons is gone, the small beachtown atmorsphere has been turned into a high rent imitation of Santa Monica. The mobile home parks were ripped up to put in 8 million dollar McMansions at the Strand and some neo Urbanist million dollar condos across from Doheny. They added in some cheesy statues of the pioneering surfers as an insult. OC sucks

[@dazmac159]

Nature has ways to administer karma, the seafloor is still there, never give up on Danas return!🤙🏄‍♀️

[@robertgold2643]

Well done with this. Begs one to consider was this our taste of the misfortunes begotten by indigenous peoples everywhere? Sadly, I believe so. Man can’t seem to get out of his own way in trying to prove what he is capable of.

[@BobbyJetty1502]

Watching this was heartbreaking. However, wow guys. The history and film with story was tops. I am so greatful for our Jetty. Its been my lifeline and surfing home for 42 years. Come on down the waters fine. Uncle Bobby

[@chrisstephens6957]

Yeah, it's sad alright.

[@stevedexter-ns7qj]

You have to be a certain age to say you've surfed there. Such a sad sad story of greed, land grab & coastal destruction. So many reef breaks (Neepees) where I learned to go left at 13 yrs old. I could never look over the cliff at KD. Unless yet an old dude, that sticker on your wave wagon means nada.

[@cliffjones40]

please note in my home town in daytona beach fla they did the same thing the surfing gods need to destroy what they have done

[@davidtettleton2732]

Diving too, my mom took me there to the place i had been reading about in dive books when i was 10 in 65. Just a giant breakwater that i looked at dissapointedly. Interesting to think its still there tho...just remove that breakwater or parts of it. Ok could have been 66

[@danadickey4513]

Thanks! Never knew that.

[@Aquadoc1962]

judging from this film, the original surfers who rode there may have said it was ruined first by the crowds and kooks and then by the breakwater. What would it have been like today?

[@kai_surfs7701]

I imagine it would still be less crowded than malibu, just due to the sheer quantity of good waves in the area, but probably malibu-like.

[@Aquadoc1962]

@@kai_surfs7701 Yeah, I wouldn't know. Great Lakes and Mexico in the winter surfer here. Think I saw Malibu from the highway. I do remember camping out on the Torre Pines Country Club woods in my VW van. Long ago.

[@softhotty]

Non-polluting activity for polluting activity. Killing Killer Dana Point...horrific!

[@thomasryan5681]

Money changes everything.

[@marevs]

Sad indeed, but more powerful than Petacalco?I think not!

[@vbsand5882]

My dad suffered there and San onofre in the 50”s

[@GGGinJe]

What happened? Rich, arrogant punks with money.

[@swamibr0]

I’m not crying… you’re crying.

[@rickedel4116]

I surfed there too and we never called it “Killer” Dana

[@heathcliffvanpoo]

Where did all the good beach go? Can't spit without hitting a mansion.