Board-shorted

By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.

She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.

Hippies and surfers have been heading to this unremarkable looking village since the 1970s, creating a unique micro-community where men in djellabas share a table with boardshorted surfers.

Shirtless, board-shorted and weary behind their aviator sunglasses, they’d made it through the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival, the dance-music bacchanal that has become America’s largest multiday music festival.