Gravel Beach

The new park officially opened in January.  The toxic residues are cleaned up, much (but not all) of the historic structure is gon...

As readers may have noted from posts over the past year or two, we're seeing more and more examples of beaches being restored - ofte...

Dry Creek emerges from a small canyon midway along the otherwise unbroken line of bluffs between the Elwha Delta and Ediz Hook in Por...

Another State Park -- another deep-seated landslide.  I used Camano Island State Park to illustrate this symbiotic relationship...

Sound Waters is held every year on the first Saturday of February and whether I stay for the afternoon classes or skip out after lunch...

  Cama Beach appeared on these pages frequently last year and probably will again this year.  These are from a brief foray in m...

San Francisco's Ocean Beach transitions southward into progressively higher bluffs in the vicinity of Fort Funston, which...

This part of Pacifica is built at beach level -- perhaps on old backshore dunes.  But just as with the bluffs shown in the pr...

The northern portion of Pacifica is built on the 80' vertical edge of a rapidly eroding marine terrace.  Apart...

Daly City is where the San Andreas fault heads out to sea.  It arrives from the south by way of a series of fault valleys and e...