by CoastView | Jan 15, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Shipwrecks
The shipwreck of the SS Monte Carlo is occasionally exposed by shifting sands during the winter on Coronado Shores, a wide sandy beach also known as South Beach, on Coronado Island about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) east of Point Loma and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of San Diego,...
by CoastView | Jan 10, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Pudding Creek is a small coastal watershed in Mendocino County that drains 18 square miles (4,662 ha) before entering the Pacific Ocean about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) southwest of Cleone and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Fort Bragg, California. Pudding Creek is also the name of...
by CoastView | Jan 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Chadbourne Gulch is a small stream that flows to the Pacific Ocean at Blues Beach between Bell Point to the north and Bruhel Point to the south, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Fort Bragg and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south of Westport, California. The stream drains a...
by CoastView | Dec 28, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Franklin Point is located in the Año Nuevo State Reserve, 7.3 miles (12 km) south-southeast of Pescadero and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Santa Cruz, California. It is named after the clipper ship Sir John Franklin that which went aground here in dense fog in 1865....
by CoastView | Dec 21, 2022 | 2022, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek on Tomales Bay, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California. Walker Creek originates...
by CoastView | Dec 14, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Estero de San Antonio is a small coastal lagoon formed by a sand bar that dams Stemple Creek, a stream that starts in the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties and flows generally west to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, 5.75 miles (9 km) southeast of the...
