Monday, January 13, 2025

Depression-era Seawall Remnants / Seacliff State Beach


Recent storms and King Tides have revealed artifacts from the roaring twenty heydays of the Aptos/Rio Del Mar beaches. Lingering in the background offshore is what's left of the SS Palo Alto, a WWI concrete tanker towed into place and repurposed as an "amusement ship" in 1930.