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A Clear Day Walking Solana Beach

·Del Mar, California·#california#beach#spring#solana-beach#coastal-walk
Blue ocean waves meet a dark sandy beach, viewed from a vegetated cliff with a stone retaining wall and distant structures.

Down in Del Mar for a couple of days, and this morning I walked north up the coast into Solana Beach. Started on the bluff top, where the houses sit right at the lip of the sandstone and somebody has poured a whole retaining wall into the slope below one row of them to keep it there. The cliffs are eroding out from under everything; you can see it in every bare cut face.

Found a way down to the sand and walked the base of the bluffs for a while. Tide was out far enough that there was room to move, seaweed strung along the high line, one other person on the whole stretch. The seawall runs along the bottom of the cliff for what looks like most of the town.

Came back up near a lifeguard station and finished on the Coastal Rail Trail, which runs about 1.7 miles between the 101 and the train tracks, the length of Solana Beach. The entrance has a rusted arch spelling out the town name, held up by pillars covered in mosaic tile, agaves planted thick on both sides of the path.

Parallel ocean waves break on a dark beach backed by rugged cliffs and distant coastal development.The ocean and beach stretch along a cliff with a retaining wall, topped by modern buildings and green plants.A sandy beach with ocean waves on the left, a large tan cliff on the right, and a clear blue sky.A person walks on a sandy beach with waves, bordered by cliffs with houses under a blue sky.An arched sign reads "SOLANA BEACH" and "COASTAL RAIL TRAIL" above a path, surrounded by trees and green plants under a blue sky.A large rusted metal arch sign reads "SOLANA BEACH" and "COASTAL RAIL TRAIL" amidst green trees and a blue sky.

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