Wavehuggers in Encinitas's Leucadia district is an ocean-conscious surf school founded in 2013, teaching two-hour lessons at D Street beach near Moonlight Beach. Every session includes wetsuit and softboard equipment, and the school donates the cost of one pound of fish to the Marine Mammal Care Center per lesson — an environmental commitment that extends across the same coastline protected at Moonlight State Beach. All instructors hold current CPR and First Aid certifications, coaching students through paddle mechanics, wave reading, and standing technique from whitewater to unbroken green waves. Community surf classes for women run monthly alongside spring-break and summer kids' camps for ages five through fifteen, a group-instruction calendar that complements the single-origin pour-overs at Pannikin Coffee & Tea down the 101 in Old Encinitas. Lessons launch from D Street's lifeguard-monitored sandy bottom, where south and northwest swell windows produce rideable one-to-three-foot reform waves across a 200-yard teaching zone.