by CoastView | Jul 19, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History
Children’s Pool is one of the many gifts that philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps gave to the community of La Jolla, located about 13 miles (21 km) south of Encinitas and 11.4 miles (18 km) northwest of San Diego, California. In 1932, a seawall was built to...
by CoastView | Jul 13, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Casket Rock is the outermost of three large rocks west of the community of Elk, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Fort Bragg and 13 miles (21 km) north of Point Arena, California. Elk was originally called Greenwood after an early homesteading family. When the...
by CoastView | Jul 6, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2023, Biodiversity, California, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Salmon Creek starts at an elevation of 570 feet (174 m) and flows generally southwest for 19 miles (31 km) draining a watershed of 22,487 acres (9,100 ha) between the Northern Coast Ranges and the Pacific Ocean at Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma Coast State Park, about...
by CoastView | Jun 29, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Surf Beach is within Vandenberg Space Force Base and extends south-southwest for about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) from the mouth of the Santa Ynez River estuary to Spring Canyon, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Pismo Beach and 9 miles (14.5 km) west-northwest of Lompoc,...
by CoastView | Jun 23, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History
Point Fermin is the site of a historic lighthouse at the southernmost tip of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the city of San Pedro, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Santa Monica and 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Long Beach, California. The point is named after Father...
by CoastView | Jun 16, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Bixby Creek starts at the confluence of Mill Creek and Turner Creek that flow from an elevation of 2,500 feet (762 m) on the west flank of Skinner Ridge for a total run of about 7 miles (11 km) through the Santa Lucia Mountains to the Big Sur coast, between Hurricane...
