If you traveling down from Santa Barbara on your way to San Diego and are looking for a place to surf, you might want to consider stopping at Oxnard Shores. Oxnard Shores gets south swells that are larger and better than any location in Ventura County. When the summer-fall south swell blends with a northwest swell, it creates a lot of hollow, A-frame bowls that cover the whole beach. It’s not uncommon for the barrels to be spittin’. The surfing there is better at low or medium-low tide. It is the hollowest south wave in Ventura County. You should prepare yourself to work regardless of the size, because it breaks hard if it breaks. It’s unusual, because in the summer, Silver Strand, which is a few miles south of Oxnard Shores, gets dead, but this is the time that Oxnard Shores get lively.
Also, after you’ve caught a few waves in Oxnard, and you still feel up to playing some golf, there is a great golf course in the form of River Ridge Golf Course. There you can enjoy the warm California sun and cool ocean breezes. This golf course provides championship courses at public prices. It was designed by Billy Bell Jr. in the mid-1980s. The Vineyard Course has been redesigned to give more ocean and panoramic views of Ventura County. The course is well-known for its wide-open fairways, low roughs, great greens, and five lakes located on the back nine.