Here's an LA Times article about the event. Apparently last weekend's surf was the highest it's been in about a decade. Pros were flying in from Hawaii just to take part in the swell that came our way. There were probably about a dozen or so guys out braving the waters, with most of those guys on boogie boards, a few surfers, and then one or two bodyboarders. On the same day that we went, one bodyboarder had died, getting crushed against the rocks of the jetty by the waves. 
From what I heard, lifeguards could only watch from a boat as the surf was too tumultuous to go in and pull him out. They had to wait until he drifted to a spot that wouldn't also endanger their own lives. I saw one surfer get the ride of his life. Another surfer had a cast on his arm and lifeguards tried to convince him not to go out. They even went to get some police officers that were nearby to escort him away, but when he saw them approaching he made a break for it and ran into the ocean.There were certain points where the water was a really cool aqua-teal kind of color that I hadn't really seen around these parts before.
In this pic you can see the combination of the wave bouncing off the jetty up against the surf to create a monster wave. I call him Devastator.
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