In 1975, there was no such thing as a world champion in the sport of surfing. There was no professional tour, no big money contests with international sponsors, no chain stores in middle America selling surf clothes to pale-skinned teenagers who have never seen the ocean.
With the faceless beast of big business devouring the soul of surfing one high-gloss advertising campaign at a time, there is perhaps no greater guardian of the holy than Australian surfer Andrew Kidman.
Rain returned in a big way to Santa Barbara County this past weekend as a series of three massive North Pacific storm systems made their way south over the weekend, dropping more rain in 72 hours than many areas had totalled in the past two years.
Rain returned in a big way to Santa Barbara County this past weekend as a series of three massive North Pacific storm systems made their way south over the weekend.
Oil company spokesman says sabotage caused spills.
The top crimes of 2007 that the tourism board hopes everyone will soon forget.
On 12/10, a standing room only crowd gathered for three hours in the Santa Barbara County Administration Building to voice their concerns about plans to put large-scale luxury homes on the pristine Gaviota Coast.
The alarm clock becomes a haunting reminder as you calculate just how long it is until the sun rises and it becomes socially acceptable to be as awake as you are. Perhaps you get up and read a book or watch some television in order to, as you tell yourself, “fall back asleep.” But the fact is you never were asleep and you don’t see the sweet embrace of slumber coming anytime soon.
Three separate incidents pour gallons of crude oil into North County creek.
Just as a massive west swell lit up fabled Rincon Point this week, late-hour legal jockeying and one big procedural blunder by a county agency have the long-simmering plans to convert the 72 homes that line the fabled surf break from septic to sewer systems very much on the ropes-less than two months after they seemed all but guaranteed to become a reality.
