Rockaway Beach, Pacifica

DSC02642
Welcome back to National Parks and other public lands with T!
DSC02650

We stopped at Rockaway Beach in Pacifica because we’d heard there was a black sand beach there. When we got there, we saw brownish, ordinary sand. We needed to go a little farther North to Sharp Park Beach for the black sand.

DSC02643

But what we saw at Rockaway was a beach with hardly anyone else on it. We climbed down to the beach, watched a couple of surfers catch a wave and walked out to some cool rock formations with a colony of sea birds on them.

DSC02663

Location: Cabrillo Hwy and Rockaway Beach Ave, Pacifica, California
Designation: City Beach
Date of my visit: August 13, 2012

DSC02653