THE TAKEAWAY
- The Wedge’s legendary waves are the unintended result of decades of harbor engineering and jetty construction.
- Hurricane Marie’s powerful swells exposed buried timber, jetty rock and other remnants of Newport Beach’s past.
- Historical research suggests the timber may belong to a temporary construction trestle, while some exposed rocks may be part of a 1930 groin.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Mysterious wooden structures exposed at Newport Beach’s famed Wedge have offered a glimpse into the city’s past, as hurricane swells peeled back the sand to reveal a series of unidentified items from history.
When Hurricane Marie smashed the Southern California coast over Labor Day Weekend, aggressive coastal erosion turned one of California’s most iconic waves in Newport Beach into an archaeological dig…