SAN ONOFRE IS NOTORIUS FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION to surfing.

Take the bamboo forest for example. When the WWII vets

arrived in North San Diego County in the late forties the beach

was desolate unattractive as unattractive can be. One of San

Onofre's early riders was a popular rascal named Guisippe

Bamboozalado. Southern California's coast historically is

an arrid desert, documented by Land Tile Company reading

material. Having spent years in North Africa chasing "The

Desert Fox" he became disenchanted by sand sans

vegetation. This is what San Onofre by the Sea appeared

to him--a desert! Bamboozalado was good friends with

Ernie Pendelton, after whom Camp Pendelton is named.

San Onofre cronies were estatic, "Tell Pendelton you want

to remembered down here. Tell him you want to plant

bamboo, Guisippe, that way they'll remember Bamboozalado

forever. This is how, 65 years ago, San Onofre's Bamboo

Forrest was born.

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