Introduction
A brief note in the Introduction states the Hawaiian sport of surf-board riding can here be enjoyed as nowhere else outside the Islands.

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Frontpiece
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THE very complete and able exposition by Miss Ward explains better than I could do it myself why we have come to Carpinteria.
Nowhere in my experience, do mountain, sea, marshland and shore offer quite the combination they do here.
The three-mile stretch of beach is in most places three or four hundred feet wide at low tide.
At high tide, the breaking power of the wide flat and the half-mile bar outside pile up a truly imposing surf, even at times when the Santa Barbara beach is washed by the merest ripple.
This large surf breaks far out and is unac-

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companied by undertow.
As a consequence, the bathing is most safe and at the same time most exciting.
The Hawaiian sport of surf-board riding can here be enjoyed as nowhere else outside the Islands.
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Stewart Edward White.

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Ward, Elizabeth Antoinette: Carpinteria Photographs by George Gilbert McLean Forward by Stewart Edward White. Carpinteria, California, c1910. Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t2f76q64c

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