Beach pics: Pacifica, California

Here are some pics of the beach by our apartment. It's called Esplanade Beach; it used-to be more popular with people/tourists before the cliffs started eroding. As a result, it's now a very natural, relatively untouched beach. Now it is really unsafe to climb down to, although my husband and I got adventurous and went down there; enjoy!!

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Hubby standing on some neat rocks
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crab! He was being attacked by some gulls. We tossed him back into the waves.
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This was where the staircase used to be, to get to the beach from the apartment area above. Now it is a VERY risky climb and I would not recommend anyone to go down there.

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Dead seal! I still find/photograph dead things; that hasn't changed.

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And I wanted to take this home, but it still had stuff inside. :/
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Washed-up jellyfish
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Beautiful pictures. I haven't been to a beach in ages.

Thanks :) Before Cali, the only beach I had seen, was the rocky Lake Erie beaches in Buffalo, that are ice/snow half of the year, and gravel/razor-sharp rocks the other half!

You should see umm... what's it called. The beach in Biloxi. That beach is kinda nasty. So the one you're at is like a masterpiece.

Very pretty pictures. You're lucky to live so close to the beach!

Thanks! I figured it this way. We could live cheaper if we moved inland more. But then we would never get to the beach.. which wuold kinda negate part of the reason that I want to live in Cali. And so it went!

Hey at least your beach will never be crowded :P.Thanks for sharing

Lol, I've lived in California all my life (With the exception of 6 months when I moved to North Carolina *shutter*) and I've only seen the ocean a handful of times. Kinda ironic since when I was in Tennessee once, this girl asked me what Cali was like, and I told her I grew up where there were a bunch of rice fields. She goes "California has farming fields? I thought it was all beaches and stuff" I about laughed my gut off.

Yup Joe!

Haha! That's funny about what you said about Cali, Elise. I know that people used-to always tell me that they thought NY was all big-cities,not farming fields. I was pretty surprised of how much rural land is in Cali, and deserty-land.. but of course it can't all be coastal!

Yeah that is my favorite misconception about California. I see all these people wearing Hollister and I wonder if they know that Hollister is actually nowhere near the water and is actually a farm town, and a small one at that. A lot of people don't know about Cali and its farmlands...like Gilroy being the garlic capitol of the world ( and a damn stinky place to drive through).

<--Lived in Monterey, Seaside and then San Diego.

And for the record I grew up literally on the beach...in Brooklyn NY.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...,201.9,,0,4.18

At the dead end is the boardwalk...time from apartment to sand beneath your toes...a cool 30 seconds. My building is the one on the right. =D