by CoastView | Mar 16, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History, Parks
Black’s Beach is the secluded southern section of Torrey Pines State Beach, which starts at the mouth of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon to the north and extends south for about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Scripps Beach, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Encinitas and 4 miles (6.5 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, March 2023
Martins Beach is a public beach adjacent to a private gated community protected from erosion by a seawall, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of Lobitos, California. Lobitos means ‘little wolves’...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History, Parks
Mugu Rock is a distinctive feature at Point Mugu, a headland in Point Mugu State Park, situated between Thornhill Broome Beach to the east and Mugu Beach to the west in Santa Monica National Recreation Area, about 17 miles (27 km) west-northwest of Malibu, and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 24, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Embayments, February 2023, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks
Tennessee Cove is an embayment with a sandy beach about 600 feet (180 m) long on the Pacific Ocean between Pirates Cove to the north and Rodeo Cove to the south in Golden Gate National Recreation Area about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.6 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 17, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, February 2023, Historical, Shipwrecks
King Philip was a clipper ship that wrecked in 1878 on Ocean Beach, on the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula in the Sunset District, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Golden Gate Park and 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of downtown San Francisco, California. Ocean...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, February 2023, Historical, Land Use, Shipwrecks
La Jenelle was a passenger ship that went aground and wrecked in 1970 on Silver Strand at Port Hueneme, a sandy beach created partly from dredged harbor sand about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 450 feet(140 m) wide, about 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Santa Barbara and 3.3...
