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Rockview Drive
- GPS coordinates:
- 36° 57.272’ N, 121° 58.484’ W
- LiMPETS monitoring site since:
- 1972
- Directions:
- This site is located between the cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola. The Rockview Drive site is off the western tip of Soquel Point, below the end of Rockview Drive. You can park on Rockview Drive or Pleasure Point Drive and walk to the site by one of three routes: 1) at the ocean end of Rockview Drive, clamber over the rocks to the beach or go down the stairs between the houses on the eastern side of the road, 2) walk down the stairs on the ocean side of Pleasure Point Drive, halfway between Rockview Drive and East Cliff Drive and go west across the sandy beach to the site, or 3) walk down the surfer trail just east of the intersection of 32nd Avenue and East Cliff Drive and walk west on the sand and rocks to the site.
- Restrooms:
- There is a portable toilet at the intersection of 32nd Avenue and East Cliff Drive.
- Site description:
- This is a large rip rap site of big boulders that leads to a flat surfgrass-covered area at the bottom of the vertical transect. Surfers use the area around this site frequently.
- LiMPETS methods:
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- vertical transect
- total counts in a permanent area
- size measurements in a permanent area
- Download site-specific protocols and datasheets used at this site.
- Permit and visitor information:
- No permit is necessary for monitoring; however collecting of any sort is illegal with out a scientific collecting permit.
- Contact your LiMPETS site coordinator:
- Lisa Emanuelson, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary • 299 Foam St. Monterey, CA 93940 • • (831) 521-9512