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The California Coast
6 years
If you own a car in California and love our coast and ocean, you need a Whale Tail License Plate. It funds marine education and conservation, and renewals are tax deductible!
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The California Coast
5 years
Thank you to all the wonderful California #CoastalCleanupDay volunteers! With 75% of the cleanup sites reporting, the statewide count is 59,772 volunteers and 402,710 lbs of trash and recyclables. Be proud of your work. We are grateful for you.
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The California Coast
6 years
If you own a car in California and love our coast and ocean, you need a Whale Tail License Plate. It funds marine education and conservation, and renewals are tax deductible!
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The California Coast
7 years
Did you know Sea Otters help to fight climate change and global warming by protecting kelp forests? Learn more:
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The California Coast
6 years
If you own a car in California and love our coast and ocean, you need a Whale Tail License Plate. It funds marine education and conservation, and renewals are tax deductible!
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The California Coast
6 years
Spurred by citizens, Malibu bans restaurants and vendors from selling plastic straws, stirrers, and utensils
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2 years
THANK YOU to all the volunteers at #CoastalCleanupDay today. From north to south, from shore to mountain, you made a difference for our ocean, waterways, and communities. With 60% of cleanup sites reporting so far, 27,185 volunteers picked up 250,563 lbs of trash and recyclables!
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The California Coast
2 years
Taking a tour of some of California’s beautiful redwood coast. First a Trinidad view.
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3 years
Announcing the winners of our 22nd California Ocean & Coastal Amateur Photography Contest! First place goes to Susan Cook for her photo of a heron at Sands Beach, Santa Barbara
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The California Coast
3 years
We love all the parts of California, but Northern California is trending for some reason and we do admit that it's pretty darn beautiful.
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The California Coast
1 year
Please welcome Kate Huckelbridge as the California Coastal Commission's next Executive Director. 50 years after the voters created the Coastal Commission with the passage of Prop 20, the agency has appointed the first woman to its top spot.
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7 years
Come together to protect our coast and ocean. Hundreds of SF and Marin City kids did just that at #KidsOceanDay this morning. ❤️
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The California Coast
6 years
Join us for California #CoastalCleanupDay on Saturday Sept. 15, 9am-noon. There are more than 1,000 cleanup sites to choose from ALL OVER California! (Yes, even inland.) It's the biggest volunteer day in the country! Check it out at
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3 years
Happy #CaliforniaPoppyDay ! Whether you’re on the coast or not, share your beautiful spring golden poppy photos below. Eschscholzia💛
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6 years
600 students & volunteers from SF & Marin cleaned up Ocean Beach today, & sat in formation to create an aerial design to broadcast the need to take action for a clean ocean. Photo: Kevin Lozaw, Aerial Art Coordination: Carter Brooks #whaleplate #whaletailgrant #kidsoceanday #MSI
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7 years
Summer officially begins at 9:24pm tonight, but go ahead and start celebrating now. #HereComesTheSun #FirstDayOfSummer #SummerSolstice
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3 years
Had a great conversation with this volunteer this morning in Richmond. So grateful for everyone who gave of their time for #CoastalCleanupDay . What a beautiful day it was.
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The California Coast
3 years
Muir Beach below, famous San Francisco landmark in the distance
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The California Coast
6 years
You can borrow a beach wheelchair for free at more than 100 beaches in California, and new locations have just been added to our list for Humboldt and Del Norte Counties! There are also beach walkers at some spots. Get the details at #accessibility
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The California Coast
8 years
Support marine education w $1 or more. Join @EricBalfour &give to Protect Our Coast & Ocean Fund on your CA tax form
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The California Coast
4 years
#BlackBirdersWeek aims to raise awareness, grow community
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8 years
Behind the scenes with @ERICBALFOUR to promote the #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean Fund on CA tax forms. TY Eric!
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6 years
With 75% of California #CoastalCleanupDay sites reporting, we've counted 53,073 volunteers who collected 734,606 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches and inland waterways! Congratulations and #ThankYou to our great state!
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5 years
Take a deep breath
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The California Coast
7 years
Next time you travel Highway 1, give thanks for California voters #Prop20 1972. Lets keep working to #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean . #travelskills
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6 years
#KingTides are the highest high tides of the year and they're coming Sunday through Tuesday. Please help with sea level rise outreach and planning by taking photos of the shore during these high tides. Learn more at (Photo by Ronald Smith)
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8 years
Feeling the future of sea level rise at #KingTides this morning in San Francisco.
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The California Coast
6 years
Here's to a peaceful weekend in California. Hoping you can enjoy the outdoors, wherever you are. Thank you for all you do to #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean . #FridayFeeling #weekendvibes
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The California Coast
7 years
A favorite lighthouse photo. Point Reyes sunset. #NationalLighthouseDay #California
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The California Coast
4 years
Digging into our California Ocean & Coastal Photo archives today to share with you some of the beauty of our coast. Take a deep breath and imagine the cool breeze and the splash of the waves. Please add your photos in the replies. Here's lovely Davenport by Jennifer Fraser:
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The California Coast
8 years
For the mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends out there, happy #MothersDay . Iris at Point Arena.
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The California Coast
7 years
Appreciating the wonders of our world and the people in it. Thank you.
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The California Coast
7 years
Celebrating our National Parks today. Here's a beautiful view of Point Reyes Lighthouse in @PointReyesNPS . #NationalParkService #PublicLands
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The California Coast
7 years
Everything you need to know about how to participate in #CoastalCleanupDay this Saturday:
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7 years
Morro Rock. One of the treasures of the California coast. #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean
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The California Coast
4 years
More poppies for California Poppy Day. #CaliforniaPoppyDay
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The California Coast
8 years
Here's hoping this weekend you can hug the ones you love and take some time to enjoy your California coast.
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The California Coast
5 years
It’s Saturday, and we could all use more beauty in our lives. Would love to see replies with your photos of the California coast, or with a special memory of the coast, so we can enjoy it too. 🌊❤️
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The California Coast
5 years
Just been notified by twitter that we’ve been tweeting #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean at and with you for 10 years. What would you like to see more (or less) of from @TheCACoast /California Coastal Commission as we continue this social media journey? #MyTwitterAnniversary
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The California Coast
8 years
800 kids will be taking part in #KidsOceanDay San Francisco tomorrow! Here's what it looked like last year:
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1 year
Dec. 20–23: Explore California tide pools, find sea stars! Document any stars you see with the @iNaturalist app. If you spot a sunflower star, send the iNat observation link to solsticeseastarsearch @gmail .com & report it at . #SolsticeSeaStarSearch
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The California Coast
4 years
Yes, I’m going through the photos on my phone. Feeling the need to be in these peaceful moments on our beautiful coast. Please share yours.
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The California Coast
3 years
Thank you to all the volunteers who joined us for California #CoastalCleanupDay on water and on land. We're keeping it going all month. Pick up wherever you are and add your data using the CleanSwell app. Visit to learn more. #ProtectYourHappyPlace
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The California Coast
6 years
Happy summer sunset from Morro Strand State Beach. 🌞
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The California Coast
4 years
Here you go.
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The California Coast
6 years
Announcing the Viewers' Choice Winner of our 20th annual California Ocean & Coastal Amateur Photography Contest. Your choice was Pankaj Bhargava's fantastic shot taken at just the right moment at Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur.
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The California Coast
3 years
A blustery day in Crescent City
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The California Coast
6 years
Happy Spring! The flowers are coming #SpringEquinox #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean
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The California Coast
5 years
Announcing the winners of the 2019 California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest for k-12 students! The winner in art for grades 10-12 is "Safe Haven" by Marina Zellers from Lompoc. "Inspired by...nature's tendencies of taking man made objects and making them her own."
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The California Coast
8 years
The coast belongs to all of us. Let's love it, visit it, protect it. #California #YourCoast
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The California Coast
6 years
May you find your way to the ocean this season. Happy #FirstDayOfFall . #Equinox #California
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1 year
Happy Birthday to the California Coastal Commission! 50 years ago today voters passed Prop 20, a hard-fought, grassroots campaign leading to the passage of the California Coastal Act and 50 years of coastal protection.
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1 year
Amazing sky at Asilomar Beach.
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4 years
A memory of a beautiful day last summer, watching gentle waves roll in and out, west of the Golden Gate. Sending ❤️ to all California today.
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6 years
Welcoming the return of the sun. #WinterSolstice #firstdayofwinter
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6 years
What's your favorite California beach? Hope you can get out there this weekend! #CoastalAccess
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4 years
We are SO happy to announce the winners of this year's Coastal Art & Poetry Contest. Please congratulate these talented young Californians! See them all at . Art winner for grades 2-3: Cassidy Cheng, The Awesome Clever Sea Otters
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5 years
Winner in art for grades 7-9 in the California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest is "My Affinity" by Isabelle Gonzales, from Moreno Valley. It's about "when you twist your feet around in the warm sand as you watch the sunset and you feel grateful to live in such a beautiful world."
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The California Coast
10 years
Tomorrow Saturday 9am-12pm #TeamInspire volunteer day @ Wetlands Interpretive Center 3842 Warner AV #HB http://t.co/tmbfDVr59x via @breZbebe
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The California Coast
1 year
Sutro Baths on this stormy day
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The California Coast
5 years
California #CoastalCleanupDay is honored by artist Tom Killion's iconic California woodcut prints featured on our 2019 posters. Please join us for the country's largest volunteer event on September 21st.
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The California Coast
7 years
A rainbow for a rainy day. Tomales Bay. Thank you for all you do to #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean .
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5 years
Happy #WorldOtterDay ! Yum...
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4 years
Been outside lately? It’s pretty nice out there.
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6 years
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7 years
Sometimes exactly what we need is the calming influence of the ocean. Feel the wind and the mist and take a deep breath. #MondayMotivation
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The California Coast
7 years
What are you doing for Coastweeks? September 16 - October 8, 2017, throughout California! #events #calendar #water
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The California Coast
6 years
It's a humbling and inspiring thing to walk through a redwood forest. California's coast has so many beautiful redwood parks thanks in large part to @savetheredwoods , celebrating its 100th year! Happy birthday! #Stand4Redwoods
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5 years
Last month, 7,000 California students took part in #KidsOceanDay cleanups at 6 events from San Diego to Humboldt. They learned about ocean pollution prevention at school and then took a field trip to enjoy a beach day, clean the coast, and form aerial messages on the sand.
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4 years
Today is Monday. You can do it! (Photo taken in Morro Bay by Ronnie Goyette)
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The California Coast
8 years
To promote our Whale Tail Plate our friends made this awesome video. Thank you @JeremySisto ! #DoTheWhaleTail #Dance
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The California Coast
5 years
Saturday, Sept. 21 is #CoastalCleanupDay , when we’ll join our neighbors for the largest volunteer event in the country. You can help anywhere in California, coastal or inland. Make a statement about what kind of future you want for our planet and people.
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8 years
#CheckTheCoast w/ @Adrian_ElTitan of the @Dodgers & donate 2 the Protect Our Coast & Oceans Fund on your CA tax form
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1 year
Snow on the beach!
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@TheCACoast It already arrived up north ❄️☃️🌨️ photo via @jen_savage
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6 years
Announcing the results of our California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest! See all the winners and honorable mentions at . Here's Koey Ma's amazing painting of Bowling Ball (Schooner Gulch) Beach:
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The California Coast
7 years
Take a deep breath. Happy almost Wednesday. #California #Coast
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8 years
It’s hard to resist Point Reyes National Seashore America’s edge #nationalparkpoetryslam @PointReyesNPS #California
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The California Coast
4 years
It's a rainy day on much of the California coast, but it's the perfect time to share photos of the places that you love. Show us a photo you took of our special California coast! Thank you for all you do to #ProtectOurCoastAndOcean . 🌊💕
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3 years
California #CoastalCleanupDay is September 18! There are already hundreds of events on our map for you to join, or you can clean up in your neighborhood. Get the details, and even print your own posters, at . #ProtectYourHappyPlace
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2 years
Congratulations and thank you to the students who shared their work as part of the 2022 California Coastal Art & Poetry Contest. Here are the winners: Big Sur Wildfire Disaster by Katie Dung, Grade 11
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The California Coast
4 years
Wishing you a peaceful Friday. Stay safe. Be well.
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The California Coast
6 years
Data from #CoastalCleanupDay shows that plastic bag litter dropped by 72 percent when compared to 2010. Plastic bags now account for less than 1.5% of all litter, compared to nearly 10% in 2010. Read more
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The California Coast
7 years
Increase the good in your California tax return by donating to Protect Our Coast & Ocean fund. $1 or more! Info at
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7 years
Save the date for the largest volunteer event in the country! #CoastalCleanupDay September 16, 2017 California visit
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The California Coast
5 years
The #KidsOceanDay event at Huntington State Beach yesterday with @OCCoastkeeper resulted in this great image! The kids were protecting what they love and telling us to do the same. Supported by a #whaleplate grant in a lead-up to #WorldOceansDay .
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4 years
With more than 3,000 miles of coastline, California’s sandy beaches and scenic bluffs are an essential part of what makes this state so special. It is important, now more than ever, that we plan for a future that includes sea level rise. #climatechange
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The California Coast
7 years
Wishing a happy #ArborDay to all of the trees that watch over the California coast, and to the people who watch over the trees.
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7 years
Tomorrow we'll be sharing your #CoastalCleanupDay photos throughout the day. Can't wait to see your hard work and your smiling faces. ❤️🌊🌎
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6 years
Beautiful Big River Beach in Mendocino today.
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6 years
On this day in 1972 California voters passed Prop 20, the Coastal Zone Conservation Act. Today we’re taking a look back.
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8 years
Amazing photo of Alamere Falls in @PointReyesNPS taken by our superstar volunteer Annette last weekend. #California
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5 years
The Coastal Commission required a plan to include women at Mavericks as a condition for the permit to use this beach. Congratulations to the Committee for Equity in Women’s Surfing
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