A Day at the Beach
“A little sea-bathing would set me up forever,” pronounces Mrs Bennet in Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, expressing the desire to spend the summer at the newly fashionable seaside town of Brighton. The author wasn’t opposed to...
A Whale of a Tail
Every spring, California gray whales make a monumental pilgrimage from their winter breeding grounds in the warm lagoons of the Sea of Cortez to their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. It’s a 12,000-mile round trip, one of the...
The Point Dume Staircase
The new stairway at Point Dume State Beach had a soft opening this month. This long-awaited beach accessway replaces an older staircase built in the 1990s that was unsafe after years of punishing environmental conditions and high levels of...
Whale Watching
The gray whales are back! Every winter and spring, California gray whales take part in an epic migration from the Arctic to the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez in Baja, and back again. It’s a 10,000 mile...
Waiting for the Perfect Wave: Surf Science 101
The talk at the beach last week was all about Linda, but she wasn’t a person, she was a tropical storm with the potential to bring big waves to local surf breaks. When the southern swell rolls in and...
Sewage Spill and Beach Water Quality
Peak beach season is here, but many beachgoers continue to have questions and concerns about water in the aftermath of a major sewage spill at the Hyperion water treatment plant in Los Angeles. The disaster—debacle may be the better...
Winter Beach Walk
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds...
September Is Coastal Clean Up Month
For more than 30 years, volunteers have come together for International Coastal Cleanup Day every September. The massive group cleanup events that have attracted more than six million volunteers in 90 countries are on hold this year, but the...
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