Though Our Waves Can Be Challenging, LBI Has It Good in an Ever-Crowded Surf World

On pretty much any given day, you can pull up Surfline’s Malibu First Point camera and see no fewer than 30 black dots moving around in the water. Scroll over to Third Point and there are a few dozen more. And when I say “any given day,” I’m talking about a weekday morning with 1- to 3-foot surf. It’s glassy and peeling, but it’s small and pretty much rideable only on a longboard.