Ninety minutes north of the city and next to pricey Montecito, laid-back Carpinteria has surfers, seals and miles of beach to ...

The 88-year-old was honored as the newest addition to the Watermen’s Plaza, a collection of local legendary surfers who have ...

“Rincon can be a slow wave sometimes,” Dimitri said. “You can get heats where there is one set, or you get lucky, get a nug, or really have to grind it out to get a backup. But I feel like (on ...

Surfing is more fun when dolphins announce their presence. The accompanying footage, shared Friday by Jenny David Films, shows bottlenose dolphins crashing the lineup at Rincon near Santa Barbara. The ...

No ifs about it. When it’s switched on, Rincon is arguably the best wave in California. Over the past 46 winters, the cobblestone point that marks the border between Ventura and Santa Barbara counties ...

No ifs about it. When it’s switched on, Rincon is arguably the best wave in California. It's also one of the most crowded. But over the past 46 winters, the cobblestone point that marks the border ...

Over the weekend, during the Toes in the Cove longboard contest at Rincon, the real locals made an appearance, and showed the competitors what’s up. A pod of dolphins infiltrated the famed California ...

To tell Rincon’s surfing history, we’ve traced the earliest confirmed Point wave riders back to the 1930s. The names that come up are Gates Foss and Mike Sturmer. Both were Carpinteria lifeguards who ...

The Chumash had a sizable settlement (called Shuku) at Rincon Point so it’s likely their ancestors were the first people to “surf” the Point, riding their sleek plank tomols onto the beach after ...

Greg Long had it on good authority that a wave bigger than any he’d ridden at Mexico’s Islas Todos Santos could arrive between 10:20 and 10:40 A.M. on January 6, 2023. The 40-year-old had been chasing ...