Gravel Beach

The Ocean Beach pier marks a distinct change in the coastline - the steep bluffs of Sunset Cliffs to the south, the wide open beaches t...

From the wide sandy beaches of Coronado to the steep sandstone cliffs north of Point Loma - quite the contrast.  The beaches along ...

The Silver Strand is the beach that lies along the long spit that forms San Diego Bay.  It extends from Imperial Beach on the sout...

Most of Imperial Beach lies on slightly raised ground (a low terrace?) between the Tijuana River Estuary on the south and the lower O...

It would have been fun to spend a little more time exploring the lower reaches of the river and the estuary, but I had to settle fo...

The U.S. - Mexican border is marked by a big fence, recently updated, that marches out through the surf zone. The steel slats are...

Coronado is built on land that was once two low islands, possibly overwash deposits, at the northern tip of the long sand spit that...

This is the first of what will be a dozen or so posts from San Diego, the consequence of two days tucked onto the end of a four day e...

My visit to Whiffen Spit two weeks ago had me thinking a lot about Ala Spit, and since I was in the area for meetings and other site ...

It's not hard to figure out how this place got its name, although I'm sure the Swinomish have more interesting words for it. L...