"We've got about 20- to 30-foot wave faces today," Jon Wayne Freeman assures us from the tideline at the Wedge as surfers behind him bob amid a lethargic south swell. "It's just in-between sets."



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The best experiences in Costa Mesa, the home for action sports in California in The OC. Go skateboarding, eat at Wahoo’s Fish Taco and dine with Top Chef's Amar Santana.

Water. It's an essential building block of life, constantly moving in a hydrologic cycle that flows in a continuous loop above, across and even below the Earth's surface. But water is also constantly moving through another cycle --...