In the dark the ocean’s motion makes you feel like you’re bobbing weightlessly, euphorically, in space. When the sun’s first light spills pink ink along the horizon, the leaping dolphins flashing like silver streaks against the crimson, you’ll be stoked.
How to do it: Zoom on a carless PCH past Topanga and Little Dume to the Ventura county line, where the lot at Neptune’s Net is empty—a rare phenomenon. The evening before, rent a longboard at Zuma Jay in Malibu, a good choice for locking into the slow barrels that this point break is known for.
