Gravel Beach

Del Mar stretches from Solana Beach and the San Dieguito Estuary on the north to Torrey Pines on the south. The northern portion of the ...

Neptune Avenue in Encinitas (or Leucadia, to be a bit more precise) has three places you can access the beach, Stone Steps, Beacons...

This is the first of two posts from this part of the Encinitas shoreline - the next one will be from Beacons, a short distance north. Stone...

From the Smith River in the north to the  Tijuana River  in the south,  California's beaches are broken by dozens of small str...

Black's Beach, named for the family that once ranched above the bluffs where the over-the-top mansions of La Jolla Farms no...

I'm going to proceed with my San Diego posts as if I'm systematically marching northward up the coast, but my actual itinerary ...

The Scripps Institute of Oceanography (part of UCSD) is located on the coast at the north end of La Jolla (the rest of the Univer...

Just a mile or two north of the last posting and we're back to sand beaches - but still pockets and patchy beaches controlled by...

This is the first of two posts from La Jolla (now two weeks ago) and probably the only serious gravel beach of my San Diego trip.  Th...