As part of our continuing series “Waikiki Summer,” HPR’s Noe Tanigawa talked with a local waterman who knows Waikiki surf breaks well along with some of the stories behind them.
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The Tijuana Slough shoreline closed Sunday because of sewage contamination, San Diego County health officials said. The closure affects the coastline at Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge and Border Field State Park, the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and Quality said. The closure area includes all beaches from the International Border to the south end of Seacoast Drive..
May 7, 2021 |
Surfing
The revival of surfing, which took place at the beginning of the 20th century, coincided with the revival of swimming.
Although swimming can be traced back to antiquity and numbers Caesar and Charlemagne among its more famous exponents, the sport had fallen into disrepute during the Middle Ages, as it was thought to be the cause of smallpox epidemics.
When taken up again in the last century, swimming out of doors had transgressed Victorian ideas of morality, and there were many complaints about mixed bathing and the flagrant exposure of naked flesh on the beaches (such as fingers, toes, and necks!)
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