The very complete and able exposition by Miss Ward explains better than I could do it myself why we have come to Carpinteria. Nowhere in my experience, do mountain, sea, marshland and shore offer quite the combination they do here. The three-mile stretch of beach is in most places three or four hundred feet wide at low tide. At high tide, the breaking power of the wide flat and the half-mile bar outside pile up a truly imposing surf, even at times when the Santa Barbara beach is washed by the merest ripple.