Learn valuable information on water supplies, drought conditions, local water use restrictions, State mandated reductions, and how to reduce water use both indoors and outdoors. Wednesday, September 9th 7:00 – 8:30 pm Millbrae Library 1 Library Ave – Millbrae, CA 94030  ~ Free Admission ~   RSVP: 650.349.3000 or on the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency’s website   You will also learn […]

Located between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, Pedro Point Headlands offers a spectacular 255-acre landscape, three miles of trails and stunning views. At the same time, the Headlands suffers from persistent erosion, caused by past off-highway vehicle (OHV) use. Sediment runs into San Pedro Creek, harming fish, frogs and other wildlife. Sunday, August 30th 9:45am Meet at the Pedro […]

SUBWAY® restaurants have a long history of supporting local communities and they decided to feed ALL the volunteers of Pacific Beach Coalition coming to the Linda Mar Beach Cleanup happening on Saturday August 15th. Come to help us cleanup the beach and enjoy some good Subway sandwiches afterward! Sign up here!   About the Cleanup: Time: Saturday from 9am-11am. Rain may cancel […]

What are you doing this Summer? Help protect San Mateo County beach users by sampling beach, creek and bay waters! County staff will provide training, needed equipment and supplies for the sampling. Samples are collected every Monday morning, and volunteers drop samples at convenient locations in either Half Moon Bay or Pacifica for transport by County staff to the Public Health Laboratory for analysis. Sampling occurs year‐round, and […]

Enjoy a day at the beach with others in our surfing community, celebrate the intergenerational nature of our sport, and raise some much needed funds for Pacifica’s Environmental Family, Pacific Beach Coalition’s fiscal sponsor! The Kahuna Kupuna is an annual shortboard and longboard surf contest that honors the more experienced (in age) surfers among us! The main focus of the […]

  You might think it is beautiful to see a bright colored balloon fly in the light blue sky but this thought will rapidly go away once you see a dead bird on the beach tangled in a balloon ribbon! Surveys have shown the amount of balloons and balloon pieces found on the beach have tripled in the past 10 years. […]

By Amidia Frederick Mori Point was abuzz with excitement this spring with the appearance of two whales. The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and the city of Pacifica buried the humpback and sperm whale on May 19, completing the burial over the course of two days. The original decision was to let the whales decompose naturally, but surrounding communities […]

Here is a lot of good information if you would like to be involved with helping the City of Pacifica – Info sent by Sue Digre, City Council Member. Pacifica is evaluating and updating the General Plan and Local Coastal Land Use Plan in order to preserve the “CHARACTER of OUR community, PACIFICA” That character is also very environmental. So, it […]

Several of us got together to participate in the census of Snowy Plovers that is conducted twice annually along the Pacific Coast from Washington to Baja. Our wintering Snowy Plovers left back on March 13th, returning to their nesting beaches, but we covered Pacifica’s three beaches just the same, just to be scientific about it. While we didn’t find any […]