A special Sunday edition of Essential California tackles the state's disappearing coastline - and what it represents for us: There is no California without the coast.
“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. It was very far inland that I caught the first smell of the Pacific. When one has been long at sea, the smell of land reaches far out to greet one. And the same isWarm, wet n' wild— Katy Perry, “California Gurls”celebrated as a life force and filled with amazing tales.
The underground surf culture of Malibu in the 1960s, and how it spawned “Gidget” as well as some things much darker. . A stunning oral history of the great Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, which fundamentally changed the way Californians view the coast and sparked preservation. (
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