ARRRGGHH...ok how many of you spent a good portion of their high school/college beach days at Huntington. I know I did...well...you know that marsh just inland? The manmade one designed to provide wildlife habitat...it turns out that it is a HUGE fecal bacteria plant that routinely pumped levels of the bacteria to 1000's of times the legal limit in the waters at Huntington Beach...so when you got that mouthful of sea-water......damn that's nasty. Here's the whole article.