Little Groms Surf Camp

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About

As the exclusive surf-camp partner of the City of Encinitas since 2007, Little Groms Surf Camp runs weekly sessions at Moonlight Beach for children ages five through fifteen. The curriculum splits into two age tiers — Little Groms for ages five to eight and Big Groms for ages nine to fifteen — each covering pop-up technique, wave selection, and rip-current navigation, the same foundational skill set taught for older students and adults at Leucadia Surf School. A dedicated Little Mermaids program adds yoga, marine-biology education, and ocean-art projects to the surf instruction, creating a girls-focused track that blends water skills with environmental stewardship. Summer sessions run in consecutive weekly blocks from Memorial Day through Labor Day, with the D Street beach-volleyball-court meeting point at Moonlight Beach giving families staying at the Inn at Moonlight Beach a walkable drop-off within the same block. Private one-on-one and small-group surf lessons run year-round at Moonlight Beach, with all surfboards and boogie boards provided by the program. Each daily session cycles through rip-current identification drills, stingray-avoidance entry protocols, and wave-reading exercises before students enter the water, building the ocean-safety framework that the program has delivered to over ten thousand campers across eighteen consecutive seasons at Moonlight Beach.