The Seascape Beach in Aptos can only be reached by a walk down a long path behind and through the Seascape Resort. So few people know it is open to the public. It’s never crowded and has a spectacular view of the Monterey Bay.
We were in Maui April 2012. We learned that we could walk down the K beaches through the resorts. There was a trail the entire way. I went five miles one day. I don’t think it was a secret... but there is access. There was also a colony of natives which included a really tacky motor home and a shack made out of scrap wood. I was told that they and their ancestors had owned that land since the beginning of time. Good for them. Except it was also I think a meth lab. LOL
I was fortunate to have work send me that way last year, inspecting the railroad track from Watsonville up to Davenport. I intentionally took a couple days to see some stuff I don’t ever get to see... the hidden beach up by Davenport that you need to walk down the bluff and through an sea-eroded tunnel through the bluff to get to...
Also stopped at some spot where there was an overlook and all these slackers were surfing... was good to just sit and look at the ocean in the sun... after being the week earlier in the desert of SE New Mexico.
I wish I remembered the name... Pleasure Point or Pleasure Beach or something like that.