Laguna Beach (Brooks Street) Guia

If Laguna Beach were to have one beacon, it'd certainly have to be Brooks Street. During large S and SW swells, this shapeless clump of rocks and reef transforms into a 200-yard racetrack left. Brooks is strictly a summer and autumn break. Southern Hemisphere swells and hurricanes that drift into the swell window off Baja head into Brooks Street with unfettered power. If you walk down the stairs to the beach and look south, you'll see the takeoff zone: a submerged reef some 30 yards out. Waves boil off this reef (mondo S swells move out to second and third reefs), create a foamy helping-hand over the ledge, and throw surfers into a mad dash down the line. As the wave hits the inside section, boils pop up like landmines.