Covid-19-hit tour guide streams empty tours of Santa Monica beach on social media

Duford, owner of Surf City Tours, in one of his tour buses on an empty street near the beach in Santa Monica, California. — ROBYN BECK/AFP

“Here is the ocean, everybody!” announced Adam Duford, as his guided tour of Santa Monica, California arrived at the world-famous beach.

But Duford was standing all alone on the coast, with no tourists to be found, and making no money.