Cresting wave and morning sun, Carlsbad, California.
Batiquitos Lagoon and Ponto, stormy sunset, aerial panoramic photograph.
Waves rush in at sunset, Carlsbad beach sunset and ocean waves, seascape, dusk, summer.
Waves rush in at sunset, Carlsbad beach sunset and ocean waves, seascape, dusk, summer.
Water Tower Hill and Denk Mountain, and view to the west, highest point in Carlsbad
Ponto, morning surf, Carlsbad, California.
South Carlsbad State Beach and campground, aerial photo
Incoming waves at sunset, Carlsbad
Carlsbad Coast Aerial Photo, Encina Power Plant and Aqua Hedionda Lagoon
Batiquitos Lagoon and Ponto, stormy sunset, aerial photo
Batiquitos Lagoon and Ponto, sunset, aerial photo
Ponto Sunset, South Carlsbad State Beach
Sunset
Sunset reflected in the still waters of Batiquitos Lagoon.
Great blue heron in flight.
Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad and La Costa, Ponto Beach, aerial photo
Sunset, sea cliffs, rocks and swirling water blurred in a long time exposure.
Encina Power Station, a large natural gas and oil-fueled electricity generating plant in Carlsbad, California, aerial photo
White pelican, breeding adult with fibrous plate on upper mandible of bill, Batiquitos Lagoon.
Cattails
Ocean water washes over a flat sand beach, sandstone bluffs rise in the background, sunset.
Kelp washes ashore in clumps on the rising tide.
Batiquitos Lagoon aerial view, showing coastline and Interstate 5 freeway.
Sarah's Cavern, a natural sea cave hidden below sea cliffs in Carlsbad, opening onto a flat beach at sunset, inner walls adorned with graffiti.
Child on the beach, Ponto, Carlsbad, California.
Cobblestones piled at the base of seacliffs, sunset. Beach cliffs made of soft clay continually erode, adding fresh sand and cobble stones to the beach. The sand will flow away with ocean currents, leading for further erosion of the cliffs.
Cobblestones on a flat sand beach. Cobble stones are polished round and smooth by years of wave energy. They are alternately exposed and covered by sand depending on the tides, waves and seasons of the year. Cobblestones are common on the beaches of southern California, contained in the sandstone bluffs along the beach and released onto the beach as the bluffs erode.
Graffiti is carved into soft sandstone cliffs at the beach.
Tic-tac-toe in the sand on the beach.
Empty beach after a session in the water, footprints in the sand.
Remains of the old historic ""Coast Highway 101"", undermined as the bluff upon which it was built eroded away, now broken into pieces of concrete and asphalt blocks and fallen down the sea cliffs, lying on the beach.