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To be fair we should acknowledge that even though LA city limits do not touch the ocean, it's less than 8 miles from downtown to the coast. Plus, as much as I love the teal tropical waters of Biscayne Bay in Miami, a dive north on the PCH toward Malibu or south to the OC & Diego could easily have me California Dreamin'
Los Angeles touches the ocean. Pacific Palisades north of Santa Monica and Venice Beach south of Santa Monica are in Los Angeles city. San Pedro and Wilmington next to LA harbor to the south.
Los Angeles touches the ocean. Pacific Palisades north of Santa Monica and Venice Beach south of Santa Monica are in Los Angeles city. San Pedro and Wilmington next to LA harbor to the south.
yeah, but downtown LA is not near the ocean. not lile SD or MIA or Atlantic city
To be fair we should acknowledge that even though LA city limits do not touch the ocean, it's less than 8 miles from downtown to the coast. Plus, as much as I love the teal tropical waters of Biscayne Bay in Miami, a dive north on the PCH toward Malibu or south to the OC & Diego could easily have me California Dreamin'
Well...Santa Monica is in the city limits, and that is on the ocean.
yeah, but downtown LA is not near the ocean. not lile SD or MIA or Atlantic city
The pueblo of Los Angeles is downtown near the river; that's where LA started as an outpost of Mission San Gabriel. The conquistadors\ padres wanted to be near fresh water. Some of the coastline in those days was marshland; Ballono Creek is what's left of the Los Angeles river before it reversed course a century ago and now empties into Los Alamitos bay instead of Santa Monica bay. I suspect that Miami also had marshes\ wetlands when it was first settled.
The city of LA continued to expand in all directions over the past 100 hundred years but it reached the ocean decades ago. How far inland does Miami go?
The pueblo of Los Angeles is downtown near the river; that's where LA started as an outpost of Mission San Gabriel. The conquistadors\ padres wanted to be near fresh water. Some of the coastline in those days was marshland; Ballono Creek is what's left of the Los Angeles river before it reversed course a century ago and now empties into Los Alamitos bay instead of Santa Monica bay. I suspect that Miami also had marshes\ wetlands when it was first settled.
The city of LA continued to expand in all directions over the past 100 hundred years but it reached the ocean decades ago. How far inland does Miami go?
The pueblo of Los Angeles is downtown near the river; that's where LA started as an outpost of Mission San Gabriel. The conquistadors\ padres wanted to be near fresh water. Some of the coastline in those days was marshland; Ballono Creek is what's left of the Los Angeles river before it reversed course a century ago and now empties into Los Alamitos bay instead of Santa Monica bay. I suspect that Miami also had marshes\ wetlands when it was first settled.
The city of LA continued to expand in all directions over the past 100 hundred years but it reached the ocean decades ago. How far inland does Miami go?
Miami has it's own river called the Miami River(go figure) that starts in the Everglades and empties out into Biscayne Bay. Miami goes inland I think 12 miles? Probably less. I think it's Western city-limits, end at Hialeah, or West Miami, so it probably doesn't go too far inland. It's Western-most burbs are probably a good 30-35mins away from the shore.
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