The California coast
35 charted sites, from the state line to the state line, in the stretches of coast people actually name. So far lighthouses and shipwrecks; islands, shoals and reefs are coming soon. On the website before the app.
- Crescent City and the Redwood Coast2 sites
Crescent City, Battery Point and the reefs offshore, at the top of the California coast below the Oregon line.
- Trinidad and Humboldt Bay2 sites
Trinidad Head and the entrance to Humboldt Bay at Eureka, on the redwood coast.
- Cape Mendocino and the Lost Coast2 sites
The roadless Lost Coast around Cape Mendocino, the westernmost point of California.
- Mendocino and Point Arena2 sites
The Mendocino headlands, with Point Cabrillo and Point Arena on the cliffs south of Fort Bragg.
- Bodega Bay, Point Reyes and the Farallones3 sites
Bodega Head, the Point Reyes peninsula with its light low on the cliff, and the Farallon Islands thirty miles out.
- The Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay5 sites
Point Bonita and the Golden Gate, Alcatraz, and the lights of San Francisco Bay.
- San Pablo Bay and the Delta1 site
The northern reach of the bay: East Brother Island, the Carquinez Strait and the way up to the Delta.
- Half Moon Bay and the San Mateo Coast2 sites
Point Montara, Half Moon Bay and Pigeon Point, one of the tallest lighthouses on the West Coast.
- Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay4 sites
Santa Cruz, the curve of Monterey Bay, and Point Pinos at Pacific Grove, the oldest working lighthouse on the West Coast.
- Big Sur1 site
The Big Sur coast, with Point Sur Light Station on its volcanic rock above the sea.
- San Simeon and Piedras Blancas1 site
San Simeon and Piedras Blancas, where the elephant seals haul out below the lighthouse.
- San Luis Obispo Bay1 site
Avila Beach and San Luis Obispo Bay, with Point San Luis Lighthouse on the headland.
- Point Arguello and Point Conception1 site
The elbow of California, where the coast turns east and the Pacific swell meets the Santa Barbara Channel.
- Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands2 sites
Santa Barbara, Ventura and the Channel Islands across the channel, with the light on Anacapa.
- Palos Verdes and Los Angeles Harbor4 sites
Point Vicente on the Palos Verdes cliffs, Point Fermin, and the lights of the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors.
- San Diego and Point Loma2 sites
Point Loma, its old and new lighthouses, and the entrance to San Diego Bay.