Passers-by alerted the police about drowning people, but that turned out to be the first surfers on Scheveningen | Interior

No wave surfers in the sea at Scheveningen? That’s unthinkable. But the water sport was still so unknown more than fifty years ago that surfers were taken out of the water by the police. People mainly knew it from movies, pictures from the reading folder and songs by The Beach Boys. But now the seaside resort is the surf hotspot of the Netherlands. “You have everything here.”