Del Mar coastal overlook ↗
HDOnTap · about 6.7 km from the catalogue pin · video-page
Elevated coastal and beach panorama.
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Turtles surf forecast & spot guide
Surf, wind and tide context for Turtles, Encinitas. Read the spot profile, compare forecasts and open the same break in the atlas.
Forecast & tide at a glance
Regional wave height (Hs) · feet · Pacific time. Regional significant wave height is not the height breaking at the beach.
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Know the spot
A distinct Cardiff-area break recorded by a local contributor for the initial test group.
Also known as Turtles — Cardiff.
- Break type
- Not yet documented
- Wave direction
- Not yet documented
- Reported difficulty
- Not yet documented
- Bottom
- Not yet documented
- Reported swell preference
- Not yet documented
- Reported tide preference
- Not yet documented
About half a mile south of Barnies, straight out from the top of the next stairs down. The top-of-stairs reference is preserved; exact stairway and takeoff await owner placement. Source note: a local contributor — firsthand names, relative locations and descriptions, 20 September 2026. Exact takeoff not placed. Regional assignment is a draft, not a geolocation.
Before paddling out: Wave character, peel direction, difficulty, tide response, bottom and size limits need firsthand confirmation. No forecast profile has been inferred.
Access requires owner verification; no private-property permission inferred Owner-placed takeoff; not a survey
Firsthand contribution: Peter Ochabski. Descriptions remain personal observations, not surveyed measurements or validated forecast coefficients.
Camera references nearby
Del Mar · 17th Street ↗
City of Del Mar / HDOnTap · about 7.0 km from the catalogue pin · video-page
City beach-camera collection at 17th Street with multiple viewing directions.
Links to third-party camera pages, not owned feeds. Proximity does not confirm the camera sees this break. Playback and image freshness have not been verified by this page.
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PureSurfers is built by Peter Ochabski. Spot profiles combine retained sources and contributor observations; this is not a claim he has surfed or verified every entry.