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 […]

Sperm  Whale Memorial  Sharp Park Beach, Pacifica Saturday, April 25th 10.30am For anyone interested in honoring our fallen Cetacean, there will be a community lead memorial this Saturday.  This 48′ long adult male Sperm whale appears to have died of natural causes and washed ashore last week on the south end of Mori Point.  Several of us wish to honor his life,thank him […]

Be an Ocean Warrior – Saturday, April 18th From 8:15 to 9am Practice on the Beach with Elyse All levels, ages & species welcome (love the 4 foots)   Meet at Ocean Beach Entrance, Taraval and the Great Hwy. Dress in layers, easy to move in clothes, bring a beach towel and/or yoga mat. About the teacher: Elyse Hochstadt revels in the […]

Free Composting Giveaway on April 25th Recycling Yard: 1046 Palmetto Ave, Pacifica Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm (or until supply is gone) Each resident may bring 2 – 30gal cans to collect compost. Only cans will be filled, no boxes or bags. Be prepared to show proof of Pacifica residency…IDs will be checked —- Free Shredding Event on July 25th Recycling […]