When we noticed, last week, that a 6 foot high tide was projected to arrive together with a 14 foot swell on the morning of December 20, it wasn’t hard to predict what we would find if we headed down to the Carmel River Lagoon this morning …
Sure enough! Waves have been overtopping the bar and creating yet another Carmel River Lagoon “emergency.”
For more information on this continuing series of unforeseeable “emergencies,” see our previous Carmel River related posts.
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The new cut angles to the north. The lagoon is currently held back by a small sand dam. Read the rest of this entry »
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A good deal of the 1974 film Zandy’s Bride – based on the book The Stranger in Big Sur, by Lillian Bos Ross, and starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullman – was filmed at Molera State Park, on a set constructed on the coastal terrace near the mouth of the Big Sur River.
Here are some photos we came across while cleaning out a closet yesterday … Read the rest of this entry »
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A beautiful day in the making Read the rest of this entry »
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As enormous wealth lives always side by side with abject poverty, it’s no surprise that Pebble Beach has a healthy homeless population. Since most of the work available (making beds, scrubbing floors, blowing leaves, etc.) doesn’t come close to paying for housing, many people live in cars and vans, parked unobtrusively at night in residential neighborhoods. Others seek shelter in the woods. Read the rest of this entry »
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The BSRUS (Big Sur Residents United for Socialism) announced plans today for a Festival of Appreciation aimed at thanking the many government agencies, and the state and federal taxpayers, who make the very existence of the community of Big Sur as we know it possible.
Precarious lifeline: The modern Big Sur community is completely dependent on a single, phenomenally expensive, highway. Read the rest of this entry »
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Check out this graphic representation of how energy from the Chilean Earthquake is expected to dissipate across the Pacific and this animated model of the Chilean tsunami created by the Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo.
Here are the latest official statements:
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CA 1100 AM PST SAT FEB 27 2010 .DISCUSSION...AS OF 11:00 AM PST SATURDAY...UPDATE FOR LATEST TSUNAMI INFO: Read the rest of this entry »
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Since we commented a few days ago about a new study showing that average hours of fog have declined by about a third along the California coast since 1901, a number of people have come up to us and pointed out that at least one month last year was supposedly the foggiest in 50 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hard to believe, we know, but a new University of California study says average hours of fog have declined by about a third along the California coast since 1901. Read the rest of this entry »
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