Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.
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.
Incoming waves at sunset, Carlsbad.
Breaking wave, early morning surf.
South Carlsbad State Beach and campground, aerial photo.
Water Tower Hill and Denk Mountain, and view to the west, highest point in Carlsbad.
Aqua Hedionda Lagoon and Encina Power Station, Warm Water Jetties beach, Carlsbad, California, aerial photo.
Batiquitos Lagoon and Ponto, sunset, aerial photo.
Batiquitos Lagoon and Ponto, stormy sunset, aerial photo.
Ponto Sunset, South Carlsbad State Beach.
Sunset.
Sunset reflected in the still waters of Batiquitos Lagoon.
Encina Power Station, a large natural gas and oil-fueled electricity generating plant in Carlsbad, California, aerial photo.
Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad and La Costa, Ponto Beach, aerial photo.
Great blue heron in flight.
Sunset, sea cliffs, rocks and swirling water blurred in a long time exposure.
Cattails.
Batiquitos Lagoon aerial view, showing coastline and Interstate 5 freeway.
White pelican, breeding adult with fibrous plate on upper mandible of bill, Batiquitos Lagoon.
Ocean water washes over a flat sand beach, sandstone bluffs rise in the background, sunset.
Kelp washes ashore in clumps on the rising tide.
Child on the beach.
Tic-tac-toe in the sand on the beach.
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.
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.
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.
Empty beach after a session in the water, footprints in the sand.
Graffiti is carved into soft sandstone cliffs at the beach.
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.