What Is Coastal Dreams

Our goal is to produce a documentary film about the once in a lifetime adventure of the Coastal Dreams Paddling Expedition. “The ultimate goal in undertaking this demanding and potentially dangerous journey is to bridge the divide between popular culture, and the need to educate the general public about the environmental choices we are making as a society on a daily basis.”

Coastal Dreams will be a cutting-edge, high-energy surfing adventure with a powerful and timely message: our ocean is rapidly approaching what the scientific community refers to as “the tipping point,” the point at which mankind’s destructive imprint will become irreversible. For this reason, the Coastal Dreams Team (CDT) has embarked upon a quest to expose this global calamity to the world. The story follows a group of four brave and talented surfers as they battle Mother Nature and the powerful Pacific Ocean while paddling and surfing the entire length of the California coastline, from Humboldt Bay in Southern Oregon to Tijuana, Mexico in Baja California, an 1100 mile journey in total. This film will also dramatize concern for the environmental health of the California coastline in order to raise public awareness as to:

The deteriorating quality of our coastal waters
The harm sustained by fish and wildlife that inhabit these waters
The increasingly common ill-health effects experienced by humans who play in and live near these waters