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It is certainly a beautiful and rugged coastline, but I would typically expect to see something quite different just around the corner- a huge sandy beach, a big estuary, mangrove lined harbours, massive sand dunes, mountains coming right down to the sea.
I liked the California coast, but from what I remember, it was mostly like the photos you posted, or sandy beaches.
I will have to check out the east coast one day.
I'd have to agree with Nei on this one. The east coast is a lot of same, same. Sandy beaches from one inlet to the next, except for Rhode Island and northward. Some parts of Long Island are also varied. Mountains down to the sea happens in Maine. Acadia National Park. But from the tip of Texas up thru Long Island is one long sandy beach after the next with barrier islands and wetlands, swamps, marshes, etc. Mostly flat, low coastal plain with sandy soil.
I'd have to agree with Nei on this one. The east coast is a lot of same, same. Sandy beaches from one inlet to the next, except for Rhode Island and northward. Some parts of Long Island are also varied. Mountains down to the sea happens in Maine. Acadia National Park. But from the tip of Texas up thru Long Island is one long sandy beach after the next with barrier islands and wetlands, swamps, marshes, etc. Mostly flat, low coastal plain with sandy soil.
Long Island is interesting. The south shore is very flat and sandy like the coast to the south while the north shore is rolling small hills (sometimes steep) with sand and at times rocks like the coast to the north. Think it has to do with glaciation.
That San Francisco offshore figure is very cold but believable.. when I was there a couple of weeks ago.. the water at the beach felt even colder than around here at the local beach which was about 18C.. of course the SF beach was facing the Pacific but still... it was mighty cold there ..
That San Francisco offshore figure is very cold but believable.. when I was there a couple of weeks ago.. the water at the beach felt even colder than around here at the local beach which was about 18C.. of course the SF beach was facing the Pacific but still... it was mighty cold there ..
yeah I was at the SF bay water temps. But, I did hear of the saying before, "You'll die of hypothermia in the SF Bay before you have a chance to drown"
I hear ya, but the point of my post was that the surf temp in S. Calif right now is around 72F-74F. Everyone knows the waters off SF are very cold. That is what helps produce the famous fog.
Any water temp below 28°C sucks for me, so only Guam would be an option for me to swim in. San Fran has bloody frozen water, far colder than even the English Channel!
Only the very south of California has decent temps, the rest are purely disgusting and those temps around SF are as bad as SSTs around Tasmania in the middle of winter!
Any water temp below 28°C sucks for me, so only Guam would be an option for me to swim in. San Fran has bloody frozen water, far colder than even the English Channel!
Lol what? The Gulf of Mexico's water temps reach around 32°C in the height of summer. That's a lot closer than Guam, and still warmer
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