I lived in So Calif for 54 years of my life. Many trips to the beach. Have seen it from the tip of Cabo San Lucas to San Francisco. The water in the beaches around Los Angeles aren't very clean or nice though you can find some nice isolated beaches that are nice. By the time one reaches Santa Barbara area the water is starting to get cold. I used to camp at El Capitan state beach & would have blue hands after being in the water.

Lol found out the bubbles in the water in Santa Barbara harbor weren't bubbles but small jellyfish....that hurt as my legs got stung before I realized what it was.

I took a huge sail boat with a group over to Catelina Island. Fun to see the dolphin playing around the boat. Also went on a sea plane over to Catelina too. That was an experience as a wave smacked into the plane just as it was lifting off. Quite a jolt.

The Pacific at the tip of Baja Calif (in Mexico) is the roughest spot. Huge waves that is not careful have swept people into the ocean off the beach. The tip is where the Pacific meets with the Sea of Cortez. The Sea of Cortez is quiet, calm & so clear you can see the fish swimming around you....but the beach sand was filled with sand fleas that ate me alive.

I also have been to the pacific coast up in Alaska...walked on the beach around Homer. Very barren even in September.


Only time I have seen the Atlantic was on the long flight over it when going to Rome. Only sea I saw when in Rome was theTyrrhenian Sea when I visited the ruins at Ostia Antica. Beautiful but spent most of the time there touring the ruins with an Italian archeoligist who was restoring frescos & picnicing on the ruins.