by CoastView | Apr 6, 2024 | 2024, April 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Malibu Lagoon is an estuary formed by a spit on the north shore of Santa Monica Bay that partially encloses the mouth of Malibu Creek, about 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Los Angeles and in the community of Malibu, California. The name ‘malibu’ is...
by CoastView | Mar 30, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks
Cowell Ranch Beach is at the southern end of Half Moon Bay near the ghost town of Purissima, and the northern boundary of the historical Cowell Ranch, about 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Santa Cruz and 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay,...
by CoastView | Mar 17, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History, Parks
Kirby Cove is an embayment in the Marin Headlands on the northern shore of the Golden Gate in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the site of a historic military installation, about 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of downtown San Francisco and 2.3 miles (4 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 10, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, March 2024, Natural History
Stinson Beach is a community on Bolinas Bay developed on a crescent-shaped sand spit partially enclosing Bolinas Lagoon between Duxbury Point to the northwest and Rocky Point to the south, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of San Francisco and 14 miles (23 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 23, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, February 2024, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Mad River starts in the Coast Range at an elevation of 4,845 ft (1,477 m) and flows generally northwest for 113 miles (182 km), draining a watershed of 318,080 acres (128,722 ha), and enters the Pacific Ocean about 12 miles (19 km) north of Eureka and 1.8 miles (3 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 18, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, February 2024, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Sea Caves
Devil’s Punchbowl is a sinkhole formed by a collapsed sea cave over 70 feet (21 m) deep and 100 feet (30 m) in diameter near the mouth of Russian Gulch Creek in Russian Gulch State Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.6 miles (2.6 km)...