Surfing at Venice Beach

In addition to skateboards on the beach, Venice always be in abundance to see and others-water. Surfers here involve the unique properties of the local waves. The area between the pier Venice, with its headquarters lifesavers, sung in the TV series Baywatch, and Satnam Monica pier is being protected from the north breakwater, making waves, depending on the tide or low tide and varied, and almost always powerful enough for skating. Rooms in hostels along the walking paths Venice beach, modest: $ 20 per bed and $ 50 per room, closet - just expensive for amateurs to ride the waves. Early in the morning, enjoying the beauty of deserted beach, surfers have breakfast at the beginning of reviving the promenade, near the bars blocking the road, where taxis are planted smeared prtivozagarnym cream tourists. And then rush past the old men, hearty, mourners deliberately indifferent, longing glances mermaids with plastic boards to the cold waves. And this figure of speech: the water is always, and therefore miss out on board surfers often very quickly jump to the shore. If surfers prefer to train in the morning, then another firm public is going to Venice beach just closer to noon. Noisy youths hanging out on the many basketball venues beach sung in the movie "White men can not jump" with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. A more serious bodybuilders slowly shrink to crowned at the entrance of concrete dumbbells "beach muscles" - a gymnastic hall in the open air, in which once build muscle for a future Hollywood career, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The fact that the beach kachok native of Austria became the first world-famous Terminator, and then Governor of California, Venice Beach regulars do not see anything surprising. Near the water's edge here while away people who dropped out of the structures of consumer society, mechtalteli, aliens and just street performers and artists trying to cash in on her simple art of bread. And nearby, in canals, stretches one of the most affluent areas of Los Angeles, where, among other celebrities live, such Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts, Kate Beckinsale, Tim Robbins and Nicholas Cage.