Gravel Beach

Not all of the Monterey Peninsula consists of white, coarse sand beaches and low headlands and golf courses. Cypress Point is high gr...

Working my way around the Monterey Peninsula, dodging fog and golf balls, the next significant stop on my field trip was Spanish Ba...

This spectacular place at the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula reminded me a little of Acadia ( Seawall Beach , for example)...

New buildings, the remains of old buildings, and even a radio transmitting tower surround this wonderful little beach rig...

Half Moon Bay has been the site of considerable coastal geologic investigation and story telling, but the short version is that co...

The long stretch of high bluffs north of Pigeon Point is broken by the mouth of Pescadero Creek. The creek flows through a large es...

High hills reach the ocean just north of Waddell Creek, on the coastline between Santa Cruz and Ana Nuevo, forcing Highway 1...

Much of the shoreline between Capitola and Santa Cruz consists of bluffs cut into Tertiary siltstone and sandstone (and overlying mo...

The village of Capitola is built at the mouth of Soquel Creek, which like many of the streams along this coastline sometimes flo...

Carpenter Creek empties through a small estuary into Apple Tree Cove, the small bay on which Kingston is located. The estuary's i...