“A” Beach | Week 3 | Beach a Week

Morro strand north looking south at the rock

Locals my age still refer to this as “A” Beach, short for Atascadero State Beach which is what it was called until some time in the 90s. My high school was on this beach (a rare and cool thing, a school on the beach) and for both PE and track practice I was sent (along with my classmates) to “run to the rock” or the dreaded “run to Cayucos pier.”

birds on Morro Strand

Beach notes: Full of sand dollars right now. Also saw a baby/juvenile gull, several curlews, and gangs of dowitchers, and a couple whimbrels. Also four horses, an egret, four dogs (prohibited on this beach), one kite, two people playing in the waves, and two people digging something up (i think just sand, alas) with a shovel where the water was meeting the beach.

sand dollars and bird prints

Sand dollars, closer

Horses on the beach

Your favorite person, emdot

5 thoughts on ““A” Beach | Week 3 | Beach a Week

  1. Thanks, Kate! I am sending you thoughts of sun and spring time. You can send me thoughts of Moose and barn cats and snow.

  2. Nice, I love your beach. Come over here and I’ll take you to “A” Bay over here. Short for
    Anaehoomalu Bay.

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