The Lunada Bay surfer who agreed to be quoted for this story wasn’t born into surfing the point, but knew a few of the boys, stayed tough, kept quiet, and earned a few waves here and there.
The aim of the protest was to defy the localism that has for decades denied surfers from outside Palos Verdes access to Lunada Bay’s big right-hand break.
On this day, the 600-pound rock was finally being transferred from Chadwick’s campus to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where a veteran paleontologist named Howell Thomas will spend a year restoring the unusual fossil to determine its significance.