After we travel about 780 km on Highway-1, leaving Encinitas in San Diego, through the regions of L

After we travel about 780 km on Highway-1, leaving Encinitas in San Diego, through the regions of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Big Sur, on the night of March 20 arrived in Santa Cruz, another traditional US surf-city located appslib store in the central coast of California, home of classical waves as Steamer Lane and Pleasure Point, where we stopped to spend the night.
The city of Santa Cruz is known worldwide for the surf and skate culture, one of the best US destinations for surfing and skateboarding championships. It houses the Museum of Surf, and many companies that manufacture surfboards, skateboards and clothing, such as O'Neill, the Santa Cruz Surfboards, Santa Cruz Skateboards and Santa Cruz Bicycles.
We checked in at the hotel Ocean Pacific Lodge, catamos a Denny's for dinner and then immediately sleep the sleep of the just, because we were completely broken after a full day on the road.
The next morning, the weather was closed and doing quite cold. We ate breakfast in the morning at the hotel and started the activities making a tour of downtown and the beach, where the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and the Santa Cruz Wharf.
The Santa Cruz Wharf is the pier of the city, containing several restaurants and gift shops, and is also a great spot for observing sea lions, and much used by local fishing. The pier was built in 1914 and is the largest in the western United States.
But the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is a amusement park by the sea, founded in 1907. It is the oldest surviving appslib store amusement park in California and one of the few parks to waterfront on the west coast of the United States. In this park is the roller coaster wooden Giant Dipper, built in 1924, one of the most famous wooden roller coasters in the world and one of the most visible landmarks in Santa Cruz.
The history appslib store of surfing in California dates back to Santa Cruz in the year 1885. At that time, three Hawaiian princes who attended appslib store a school in San Mateo traveled appslib store to Santa Cruz and surfed the waves of the mouth of the San Lorenzo River using boards made of wood sites sequoias . Those were the 1st surfed waves in the Americas. Since then, the city has taken the sport and the lifestyle of surfers as a style and was never the same.
Steamer Lane is the peak more classic and famous appslib store city. Waves roll close to the cliffs that serve almost bleachers for spectators. Being a peak with high waves, very consistent and protected from the wind, is usually extremely crowdeado, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being "friendly"), the factor "localism" at Steamer Lane is 11. There marine life abundant at peak and often surfers are seen paddling alongside sea lions and even sharks.
Was in the icy waters of Steamer Lane Jack O'Neill developed the modern wetsuits we all surfers use today to face the colder seas. Pat, son of O'Neill, pioneered the development of the leash. Using materials appslib store such as nylon lines, suction cups and surgical tubing, appslib store Pat found on the leash a way to prevent your board from crashing into the rocks and break in half. When testing one of surfing leashes Steamer Lane, Jack O'Neill lost an eye, which is why he had to switch to using an eye patch.
Steamer Lane - Santa Cruz
It is in Steamer Lane which is also the "Santa Cruz Surfing Museum," the world's first museum dedicated exclusively to the sport, created in 1986 to document the history of surfing. It is located appslib store in the "Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse", a lighthouse built in 1967 as a memorial to local surfer Mark Abbott, who died while surfing near Pleasure Point. With collections dating back to the early years of surfing in the territory of the United States, the museum houses a historical view of the surf in Santa Cruz.
We made our hotel check-out in Santa Cruz and we traveled by H-1 toward San Francisco, which is 115 km north of Santa Cruz. This stretch runs through a number of state parks and beaches, and viewpoints succeed with beautiful landscapes.
After we rotate about an hour, we arrived at Half Moon Bay, famous appslib store for hosting Mavericks, one of the biggest waves on the planet, the main setting of the film "All for a Dream" (Chasing Mavericks), with Gerard Butler. The Mavericks break in the outside of the Pillar Point marina, north of the city and it reaches up to 80 feet tall.
The origin of the name of this wave, refers to the beginning of March 1967, when three surfers, Alex Matienzo, Jim Thompson, and Dick Knottmeyer, decided to venture appslib store into more distant waves after surfarem for some time the inside appslib store of Pillar Point. With them was a dog German Shepherd by whites called Maverick, owned by a fellow Matienzo room. Maverick used to swim with its owner