  What is the etiquette with respect to swimming near surfers? Yesterday evening it was pretty hot here and I decided to take a dip in the ocean. I’ve been in several times before, but always on weekends during the day, when there are no surfers and a lot of swimmers.
Yesterday, there were just a few swimmers but surfers all over the place. I tried not to swim to close to them, partly to give them space to do what they were doing and partly because I don’t want them to crash into me.
But at one point I got pretty close to two surfers and they gave me the stink-eye (not to be confused with the “evil eye”) and then they looked at each other like, “who does this guy think he is, doesn’t he know this is our area?” I wasn’t really scared of them, because they happened to be thirteen year-old girls. But what am I supposed to do? Walk a mile all the way down to the pier so I can swim where there are no surfers? Swim out past the waves? I’m hoping Rebecca or one of my SoCal readers can enlighten me here. 
