This beach hike heads down-coast along the state beach to City Bluffs Park and the Chevron Oil Pier. A small pocket beach contains the Harbor Seal Preserve. From December through May this beach is seals-only. Humans may quietly watch the boisterous colony, sometimes numbering as many as 150 seals, from a blufftop observation area above the beach.
After seal-watching, you can then sojourn over the Carpinteria Bluffs or contiue down the beach to Rincon Point on the Santa Barbara-Ventura county line.
The park is off U.S. 101, twelve miles south of Santa Barbara. Exit at Casitas Pass Road, travel West on Casitas Pass Road to Carpinteria Avenue, make a right at the signal; then turn left on Palm. The beach is at the end of Palm Avenue.
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