A before photo would be nice ...
Is that new beach or did the coastline stick out there before the slide ?
I think it is a new beach aka “Slide Beach.”
I just looked on Google Earth. It is just south of the town, and the distinctive driveway is obvious. The coastline was previously pretty smooth and straight prior to the slide - so that stuff in the water is all new.
And of course all that new stuff isn’t very strong, and the water will keep wearing at it and causing it to slide a bit more.
They’ll be able to fix it, but not sure how - it will just cost a lot of money.
I sure hope that guy with the house just to the south doesn’t work in Gorda which is just to the north. If so his commute went from 5 minutes to maybe an hour or more.
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That’s almost enough for a new town by Hwy 1 standards!
It was a gentile curve.
Thanks for the memory jog... actually with a little work, quite doable...
There is an amazing web site I have not revisited for a few years, now.
Check it out!
Amazing California Total Coast Photo Project
Let me see how long it might take me to find one...
All new coastline. GE location:
35.864203° N
-121.43067° W
There is one at the link, but I can't hotlink it.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/23/massive-landslide-covers-highway-1-in-southern-big-sur/
Judging from the angles of the two pieces of road on either side I would guess that the beach was previously concave, or at least the hillface at road level was.
Follow the road from the right side of the picture. Just past the driveway cutoff, the main road stays flat. That’s the area that is buried under the mud and rocks.
it exits from the left side of the slide.
“Is that new beach or did the coastline stick out there before the slide ?”
I suspect that the white ‘line’ just above the coast was a road...and now some of that road is, how do you say, ‘all gone’, based on that picture.