Saving San Miguel

At the entrance of Ensenada, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border, sits San Miguel, an idyllic sand-and-cobblestone right that served as one of the original Mexican dream waves and continues to provide local and visiting surfers with one of the most rippable walls in Baja. But both the iconic break and its surrounding waters came under threat roughly five years ago, and the local community, alongside a few NGOs like