He captured images of himself riding through “tubes” or “barrels” — the tunnels of air created inside cresting waves, which the greatest surfers can ride in for hundreds of yards.

The first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere is tomorrow, March 20. It’s typically not the season most prone to good surf, at least in California. So it’s a good thing Los Angeles was gifted ...

They were made all the more welcome by local surfers as their city is still recovering ... The 14 minutes embedded above are dominated by groomed barrels breaking over an immaculate sandbar. “ ...