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That's right, California Dreamin'—dreaming last weekend's swell wasn't so overhyped, inconsistent, and insanely crowded! Photo: Steindler

SOLANA BEACH, Calif. -- Other than the helicopters and the lifeguards and the coroner, he had eight miles of beach to himself that morning. The posted signs said, "Get Back!" and "Enter At Your Own Risk!" and "Shark Warning!" but he rushed past all of them to his father's reef.