AERIAL VIEW
Abalone Cove is in the western portion of this messy geology. Part of it was active in the 1980s, although I guess that involved only a small area of a much larger landslide complex that extends far into the local hills. Interestingly, Wayfarer's Chapel, just up the hill from here, must be on more stable ground, as it's been there since at the early 1950s and remains intact.
The central portion of the Abalone Cove beach is armored with old concrete rubble, the lower parts of which were rounding into conglomeratic cobbles. But there were also much more appealing natural cobble beaches in both directions. By the way, that what makes these beaches more appealing isn't just that the cobbles lack rebar, but that there is still an upper beach, whereas on the armored section (as on armored beaches pretty much everywhere), the back beach is pretty much buried under the armor itself.
The bluff that rises behind the beach shows both the topography and the twisted stratigraphy typical of big landslides.
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