Thanks to Archer Koch of MultiRotorCam.com, we are updating this story with his great aerial video of the wave motor pumping it out in February, 2015. Along West Cliff Dr...
The Salton Sink was a dry lakebed in 1904. In 1905 it accidentally began a new life as one of the modern world’s largest inland seas and California’s largest lake....
Did you know that California’s famous “golden rolling hills” are a relatively new landscape? Spanish missionaries caused significant changes to the landscape...
If you’re a local you may have wondered why you can’t see the ocean very often when you drive between Santa Cruz and Davenport. It’s because every creek...
The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been helping people and businesses gain access to the ocean for ten decades! Lets take a quick peek at the past and possible future of...
Cover photo by imtnbike. Most people in California don’t think much about Mount Lassen. You can only kind of see it as you drive up Interstate 5, Mount Shasta is bigger a...
Natural Bridges State Beach derives its name from three beautiful natural bridges that were present in the early 1900s. Today, only the middle one remains and technically...
If you have been to the beach along the west coast of the US lately, you will have seen a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis). You might see them flying in large V-sha...
Updated March 15, 2016 with new photos from Richard Beal, author of Highway 17: The Road to Santa Cruz. Living in Santa Cruz and driving back and forth over Highway 17, I...
