by CoastView | Jul 30, 2023 | 2023, California, Communities, Headlands, Rivers
Ellysly Creek runs along the base of the shoreline hills within Harmony Headlands State Park, about 7 miles (11 km) west-northwest of Cayucos and 3 miles (5 km) south-southeast of Harmony, California. Harmony Headlands is a coastal park of 748 acres (303 ha)...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Parks
Chimney Rock is an islet that lies off the eastern headland of the Point Reyes Peninsula, connected only at low tide, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Point Reyes Light and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Inverness, California. The headland separates the western and...
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,...
