Californias Beach Scene

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Californias Beach Scene

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Northern and Southern California

• Two Different Worlds within One State
• Opposite Domains
• Different Right down to the Roads
• Dry Flatlands of Orange County
• Lush Rounded hills Of Sonoma

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Highway 1 in the South

• Crowded Beach Towns
• Long Ribbon of Concrete
• Street Lights and Strip Malls

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Highway 1 in North

• Twisty and Loopy
• Temperamental realm of fogbound bluffs
• Tortured cypress tress
• Rocky Shores

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Sebastopol

• Green Party redoubt of aging hippies
• Winding country roads
• Oak covered hills
• Past expansive cattle ranchers
• Wharf-side fishing village of Bodega Bay

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Headland and Harbor

• Extraordinary topography
• Unsettling reminder
• Danger that lurks beneath
• San Andreas Fault

• Shears Bodega Bay in Half
• One Tectonics plate Moving Westward
• Headland of another moving Northward

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Bodega Head

• Favorite Whale Watches
• Winter and Spring
• Views up and down the rugged coast
• Sandstone cliffs
• Harbor seals
• Marine patchwork quilt

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Childrens Bell Tower

• Three tiered steel structure
• Dozens of hand-cast bronze bells
• In memory of lost child
• Nicholas Green
• Killed by robbers during vacation
• Organs donated family's in Italy

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Heading up Highway 1

• Snaked long crumbling cliffs
• Rock-strewn coves and deserted beaches
• Fulong Glutch, Duncans Landing, and Schoolhouse
  Beach
• Over half of 53 miles public use

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Sonomas Beaches

• Orange Countys warm white sands
• Sonomas empty very treacherous
• Not for swimming
• Signs warning Few Survive
• Crumbling cliffs and dangerous sleeper waves