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Eddy Rubin is a longtime Ocean Beach enthusiast who has been walking, surfing, and foraging along the beach for decades. When not spending time at Ocean Beach, he led the Human Genome Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There, Eddy oversaw the mapping of genomes for humans, Neanderthals, and dozens of animals, plants, and microbes. His awards include an honorary doctoral degree, membership in a royal society, and-a matter of great personal pride-election into the Ocean Beach Double Overhead Surf Association. Greg Wright has lived on the west side of San Francisco and surfed at Ocean Beach for more than a decade. While spending his days working in technology, he has cultivated a passion for art and the beach's fall and winter swells.
""What a miraculous gift to have Eddy Rubin—world-class geneticist, lifelong surfer—as our guide to the flora and fauna of Ocean Beach, that magnificent strand separating San Francisco from the Pacific. With the serious scientist's depth of understanding and the poetic gaze of an inveterate beach comber, Rubin invites us to join him for the best kind of literary stroll—past the tiny enigmatic jellyfish known as sailors-by-the-sea, through hardy dune grasses bending in the wind, and even into the booming cold waves where surfers play and little sand crabs eke out a precarious living. This book is an absolute must-have for the first-time visitor to Ocean Beach, the long-time Bay Area resident, and anyone who just plain loves the Northern California coast."" —Daniel Duane, author of Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast
