AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Hurricane Marie swells strip sand from iconic California surf spot, exposing century-old construction relics
Massive swells from Hurricane Marie peeled back layers of sand at Newport Beach's legendary Wedge, unearthing wooden pilings and steel cables believed to date to a 1917 harbor construction project. The storm churned hundreds of miles offshore in an El Niño-supercharged Pacific, but its reach was long enough to send punishing surf into the Southern […] The post Hurricane Marie swells strip sand from iconic California surf spot, exposing century-old construction relics appeared first on American Almanac .
Massive swells from Hurricane Marie peeled back layers of sand at Newport Beach's legendary Wedge, unearthing wooden pilings and steel cables believed to date to a 1917 harbor construction project. The storm churned hundreds of miles offshore in an El Niño-supercharged Pacific, but its reach was long enough to send punishing surf into the Southern California coast over Labor Day Weekend. At The Wedge, a narrow strip of beach at the tip of the Balboa Peninsula famous for its shore-breaking waves, the erosion went deep. Beachgoers watched as the retreating sand revealed a row of weathered wooden pilings jutting roughly seven feet into the air, along with chunks of jetty rock and rusted steel cables that had sat buried and forgotten for…Open