People walking along Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove are noticing some strange looking sea creatures.
They are something called pyrosomes…and a specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium explains exactly what they are and what we need to know.
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Elephant Seal At Lovers Point
Keep humans off the beach, sharks can’t be far behind.
A weaned northern elephant seal pup was spotted at Lovers Point Wednesday. According to Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center, the center’s response team placed signage in the area due to the popularity of Lovers Point and the growing crowds.
Boating Accident Leaves Ship On Asilomar Beach
A three-hour tour they said, it will be fun they said.
Weather started getting rough and the tiny ship was tossed.
Five people had to be helped to shore Saturday morning by lifeguards after they abandoned their boat at Asilomar State Beach in Monterey County.
According to the Monterey Fire Department, they received reports of a group of people attempting to paddle their motorboat back out to sea at around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, but due to winds and high surf they gave up their attempt and exited the boat.
They ended up stuck on a rock outcropping in the Pacific Ocean about 10 feet away from land.
Don’t Bring A Bicycle To A Footpath
Bike riders always griping about walkers on the recreation trail. Keep your pedals off the foot paths and sidewalks.
A bicyclist in his 40s who was apparently riding on a footpath adjacent to Ocean View Boulevard in Pacific Grove this week fell onto a rocky beach and was taken to the hospital for injuries.
“He suffered traumatic injuries to his leg — possibly other injuries as well,” fire chief Gaudenz Panholzer told The Pine
Cone.
Body Found At Shore Was Suicide
Confirmed suicide. Name not yet released.
Suicide was determined to be the cause of death of a 56-year-old man whose body was found late last month near the ocean in Pacific Grove, a commander with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office told the Pine Cone this week.
At about 12:30 p.m., officials recovered the body of the man on the west side of Ocean View Boulevard across from Crespi Pond near a vehicle turnout. While the cause
of death, at that time, was not known, foul play was not suspected.
Dead Body Found At P.G. Shore
“At this time, a Pacific Grove Police detective is working with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office in determining the cause of death,” police administrative services manager Jocelyn Francis told The Pine Cone.
While there does not appear to be any foul play related to the unidentified man’s death, Francis said the sheriff’s office had a dive team search the water for any evidence. Sheriff’s office spokesman Cmdr. Derrel Simpson told The Pine Cone that the man was from Monterey County and was 56 years old.
Beaches Closed. Moose Out Front Should Have Told Ya
Are we sure the Fresno crowd will stay off the sand?
With continuing heat in the Central Valley, people’s options for recreation severely hampered by coronavirus-induced restrictions, and daily crowds at the beaches despite
rules limiting their use, public officials decided the safest way to handle the next big holiday is to shut them down. For Independence Day, the City of Carmel completely
closed its beach, while some other Peninsula cities restricted their use to water-based activities, not allowing anyone to be on the sand.
Beaches Closed For 4th Of July. Modesto Says ‘Crap’
Can always go to Modesto and be free as you can be.
The City of Monterey will be enforcing face masks and closing beaches for the Fourth of July weekend.
According to Hans Uslar, city manager, Del Monte, San Carlos and McAbee beaches will be closed on Saturday and Sunday of the upcoming weekend. Ocean activities will still be allowed.
I think it is crap, I mean everyone is sitting at home not doing anything how are you going to celebrate freedom if you guys can’t go anywhere, can’t do anything?” questioned John Feliciano of Modesto.
Rules Ignored, Beach Closed
Closed in the mid afternoon. Some enforcement, eh?
Right before Easter weekend, City Manager Ben Harvey gave the Pacific Grove Police Department the authority to immediately shut down any outdoor recreational area if too many people showed up and didn’t follow social distancing rules required under Monterey County’s shelter-in-place order. The parks and shore areas remained open.
Two weeks later, on Saturday, April 25, the beautiful sunny weather proved too enticing. Too many people showed up to Lovers Point Beach, at least in the estimation of PGPD. The department shut down the beach about mid-afternoon until further notice citing the lack of social distancing.