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San Gregorio Beach

Many folks like the drive to this beach, you can swim in fresh water from the creek that flows in the Pacific Ocean, San Gregorio Creek widens to form a small freshwater lagoon in the park behind a sand berm. There are hiking trials, fishing, some surfing

 

Historically the creek was a coho salmon spawning site, and the Department of Fish and Game is considering restocking it with coho to improve the salmon fisheries south of San Francisco

 

Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà's expedition camped at the beach to rest and treat their sick in 1769, during their (failed) attempt to reach Monterey Bay. They would go on to discover San Francisco Bay

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Uploaded on February 14, 2019
Taken on February 5, 2019