6 POINTS OF INTEREST Tidepools Fitzgerald Lighthouses/Lightstations Scenic/vista points Marine Reserve (11,13), Point Bonita (4), Point Point Bonita/Marin Año Nuevo (18), Natural Montara (11), Pigeon Headlands (4), Point Bridges (40), Pacific Grove Point (17), Santa Cruz Montara (11), Pigeon Point shorelines (58, 59, 61), (West Cliff Dr.) (35), Point (17), Año Nuevo (18), Carmel Point (71), Pinos (Pacific Grove) (55), Davenport (23), West Cliff Point Bonita Point Pinos (55) Point Sur (80) Drive (Santa Cruz) (35), Elkhorn Slough (48), Ocean Dunes Point Año Nuevo Water recreation sites View Blvd. (Pacific Grove) (18), Waddell Creek (20), The four harbors (12, 31, (61) 17 Mile Drive (in beaches between Pajaro 50, 64), Elkhorn Slough Pebble Beach) (70), Point and Moss Landing (45), (48), Cannery Row (63) Lobos (74), Hurricane Point Salinas River Mouth (51), (79), Point Sur Lightstation Ft. Ord to Monterey (56) Long walks Greyhound (80), Pfeiffer Beach (85), Rock (21), New Brighton to Sand Dollar Beach (91), Wetlands Seacliff Beach (28), Salinas Point Piedras Blancas (96) Rodeo Lagoon (2), River (51), Andrew Molera Pillar Point Marsh (12), (81), Pfeiffer Big Sur (85) Coastal walks/hikes Point Montara Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Pescadero Marsh Natural Golden Gate National Preserve (16), Elkhorn Public beaches/crowds Recreation Area/Marin Slough (46); also at the Santa Cruz Main Beach Headlands (1), Pescadero mouths of the San Lorenzo (34), Capitola (30), Lover’s Marsh Reserve (16), Año For information about the sanctuary area (33), Pajaro (44), Salinas Point (58) Nuevo State Reserve (19), above Año Nuevo Point, call (650) 712-8909 (52), Carmel (73), and Wilder Ranch State Park Big Sur rivers (82), and Windsurfing Waddell (25), West Cliff Drive (Santa For information about the sanctuary area Limekiln (90) and Creek (20), Scott Creek (22) Cruz) (35), Elkhorn Slough below Año Nuevo Point, call (831) 647-4201 Salmon creeks (94) National Estuarine Research Swimming/paddling Reserve (48), Ocean View Wharves Santa Cruz “Main” city beaches (30, Blvd. (Pacific Grove) (61), Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve Municipal Wharf (37), 34, 58, 69); the stretch Point Lobos (74), Andrew Capitola Wharf (30), between New Brighton and Molera State Park (81), Julia Field Guide to the Monterey BayNational Marine Sanctuary Field Guide totheMonterey Monterey Municipal Seacliff (27); Wm. R. Hearst Pfeiffer Burns State Park Pigeon Point Wharf (67) Memorial State Beach (98) (87), Ragged Point Trail and Overlook (95) Harbors Half Moon Bay Surfing Ocean Beach (San (Pillar Point) (12), Santa Francisco) (8), Pacifica Scenic drives Cruz (31), Moss Landing (10), Half Moon Bay break- San Francisco 49-Mile Drive Greyhound Rock Beach (50), Monterey (64) water (14), Mavericks (city and coastal) (9) Hwy. (EXPERTS ONLY) (13), Año 1 from San Francisco to Nuevo (18), Waddell Creek Santa Cruz (15), West Cliff (20), Scotts Creek (22), Drive (Santa Cruz) (35), Steamer Lane (39), Cowell’s Ocean View Blvd. (Pacific Beach (36), Pleasure Grove) (61), 17-Mile Drive Point (38), Capitola (30), (Pebble Beach, fee charged) Moss Landing (47), (70), Hwy. 1 between Carmel Beach (73), Andrew Carmel and Cambria (a Molera (83) long, winding drive) (88). Elkhorn Slough Salinas River State Beach Field Guide to the Monterey BayNational Marine Sanctuary Field Guide totheMonterey POINTS OF INTEREST, cont. Pacific Grove Monterey Birds Marin Headlands (3), Offshore birds and marine Parks and Beaches Pebble Beach Pillar Point Marsh (12), mammals Depending on Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Pescadero Marsh Preserve season (see wildlife viewing (11, 13), Half Moon Bay Carmel (16), Año Nuevo (18), Moss calendar on page 8) you State Beach (14), Landing/Elkhorn Slough may see blue whales, Pescadero State Park and (49), Carmel River (72), humpback whales, killer Marsh (16), Pigeon Point Point Lobos (74), whales (orcas), common Light Station (17), Año Soberanes Point (77). dolphins, pacific white- Nuevo State Reserve (19), sided dolphins, Dall’s por- Wilder Ranch State Park California sea lions poises, bottlenose dolphins, (25), Natural Bridges State Hurricane Point Pier 39 in San Francisco and any number of sea Beach (40), Lighthouse (5), “seal rocks” in San birds including albatross Point (43), Seacliff State Andrew Molera State Park Francisco (near the Cliff and shearwaters. Beach (29), Moss Landing House) (7) and Santa Cruz Beach (47), Marina State (Lighthouse Point) (41), Interpretive Centers Gulf Beach (53), Monterey State Big Sur Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf of the Farallones National Beach (69), Monterey State Pfeiffer Beach (37), Monterey Harbor Marine Sanctuary Visitor Historic Park (68), Lovers breakwater (66). Center (6), Año Nuevo State Point (58), Point Pinos Reserve (19), Wilder Ranch Lighthouse (55), Asilomar Harbor seals Elkhorn State Park (25), Seymour State Beach (59), Carmel Slough (48), Ocean View Marine Discovery Center at Beach (73), Point Lobos Blvd. in Pacific Grove (61), UCSC’s Long Marine State Reserve (74), offshore rocks along Laboratory (26), Natural Garrapata State Park (76), Big Sur coast (84). Bridges State Beach (40), Andrew Molera State Park Lighthouse Point and (83), Julia Pfeiffer Burns Northern elephant seals Surfing Museum (43), State Park (87), Sand Dollar Año Nuevo State Reserve Santa Cruz Wharf (37), Picnic Area (92), Ragged (19), Piedras Blancas (96). Santa Cruz Museum of Point (95), Point Piedras Sand Dollar Natural History (32), Blancas (96), William Beach Southern sea otters Elkhorn Slough National Randolph Hearst Memorial West Cliff Drive (35), Estuarine Research Reserve State Beach (98), San Gorda Cannery Row (63), (46), Monterey State Simeon State Park (97). Legend Point Lobos (74), 17-Mile Historic Park and Maritime ! # Point of Interest Drive (70), kelp forests from Museum (68), Monterey Santa Cruz to Cambria (75). Bay Aquarium (62), National Marine Sanctuary Ragged Point Pacific Grove Museum of Whales Watch gray whales Natural History (60), Point -12,000 4,000 migrate (Dec.-Jan. and early Pinos Lighthouse (55), 0 March) from cliffs and Point Lobos State Reserve bathymetry (feet) elevation coastal promontories at: (74), Point Piedras Blancas Pigeon Point (along the San (96), William Randolph 010205 Wm. R. Hearst Memorial Mateo coast) (17), Hearst Memorial State Miles State Beach Davenport (23), Monterey Beach (98), San Simeon Moonstone Beach Peninsula (Point Lobos) State Park (97). Chad King - NOAA/MBNMS (74), and Point Sur (80). 7.