Ocean Beach

And Scott, I want in particular you to weigh in on like, does Sunset Dunes matter? So we are once again going to be voting as San Franciscans on a measure to reopen the Great Highway.

This is the road for folks who aren't here, you know, that runs along Ocean Beach in the Pacific Ocean.

It was closed after a city vote, made a permanent park.

Folks hate it or some folks on the West Side hate it.

However, Jackie Thornhill with San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management says residents should think about where they swim.

Don't swim at Ocean Beach if you are not an experienced surfer or swimmer who knows what you are doing.

There's a reason that we don't have lifeguard stations out at Ocean Beach.

Fire officials say rip currents, sneaker waves, and cold water can make the ocean unsafe, even on warm days.

I'm Ella Jackson, KQED News.

St Kilda is the neighborhood.

This is the beach neighborhood, a mashup of Ocean Beach, maybe a little bit of Mission Beach in San Diego, as you can tell from the rollercoaster.

But remember that Ocean Beach in San Francisco used to have Playland at the Beach, a theme park on the beach, which actually inspired Walt Disney to make Disneyland.

That's why Disney's California Adventure has that California Paradise Pier.

It's a throwback to the old California beach boardwalk.

Cool little boardwalk here.

You know, I'm just trying to draw American equivalents.

We can talk about Ocean Beach Playland back in the day, Coney Island over in Brooklyn in New York.

He's been so long in England that he's quite English.

Have you ever seen our cracker factories, or the new offices of the examiner?" he could not understand that to the outside world the city was worth a great deal less than the man i never intended to curse the people with a provincialism so vast as this but let us return to our sheep which means the sea-lions of the cliff house they are the great show of san francisco you take a train which pulls up the middle of the street it killed two people the day before yesterday being unbraked and driven absolutely regardless of consequences and you pull up somewhere at the back of the city on the Pacific Beach.

Originally the cliffs and their approaches must have been pretty, but they have been so carefully defiled with advertisements that they are now one big blistered abomination.

A hundred yards from the shore stood a big rock, covered with the carcasses of the sleek sea-beasts, who roared and rolled and walloped in the spouting surges.

Let's get into the surf report with this quick preview from the podcast Tuesday at Ocean Beach.

This morning it's looking choppy with waves around 2 to 3 feet.

Conditions stay consistent through the morning, with the wind increasing slightly to 12 mph by 9 a.m. and reaching 14 mph by noon.

Let's get into the surf report with this quick preview from the podcast.

Monday at Ocean Beach.

This morning it's looking fair with waves around 2 to 3 feet.

Conditions are expected to become choppy as the day goes on, with the wind shifting onshore and increasing to 12 miles per hour by late afternoon.

Let's get into the surf report with this quick preview from the podcast.

Sunday at Ocean Beach.

This morning it's looking fair with waves around 2 to 3 plus feet.

Conditions stay fair until around noon when they shift to choppy as the wind picks up to 8 miles per hour.

Let's get into the surf report with this quick preview from the podcast.

Saturday at Ocean Beach.

This morning, it's looking two feet with choppy conditions.

Winds are onshore at 11 miles per hour, staying consistent through the morning.