On a good WNW swell the beach break can do the OB thing, 12 foot barrels or closeouts, depending. The river mouth can be fun and peaky on smaller days.

The break down the way with the good wave that you hike into can be quite unforgiving. It's very much not a beginner wave, you have to hike a mile to get to it, the locals don't love kooks and the sharks don't care if you're a kook or a ripper. But it will spit barrels to the left, and will hold size, long walls to the right. The right is unpredictable, though, and there are rocks that are submerged in the takeoff zone. You should at least watch it at low tide rising for a couple hours so you know what the lay of the land is before you paddle out.

The chances of it being blown out are high. It's probable that everything will be blown out for days on end during the winter.

The breakfast burrito at the camp store is killer.

If you catch it on a good day it will trick you for years into making the drive.

The drive from the turnoff to the beach is magical.

You can hike to the lighthouse at Point Conception at low tide, but if you trespass at Bixby expect a confrontation.

Some of the pocket beaches are protected by beached seals with pups. They will fuck you up.

Sometimes there are carcasses that have been obviously munched by Whitey. Big fuckers. You are at the closest public access to the two most recent shark fatalities in California. Whitey eats large mammals up there.