Weekend Special: Fish-Head Fence in San Gregorio, California
This remote cove can be attained only by clutching a nylon rope and rappelling down a steep cliff face.
The area surrounding San Francisco Bay--anchored by the city of San Francisco in the north and San Jose in the south--is a welter of densely populated towns and superhighways and high-tech companies, but climb westward over the San Cruz Mountains and find a shelf of land along the Pacific Ocean that's sparsely populated and given to agricultural usages. It's a land of old pickup trucks, lonely redwood preserves, expansive vistas, and secluded coves that can be accessed only by vigorous and sometimes treacherous climbs.
Jagged rocks discourage all but the most intrepid surfers.
Advancing and retreating surf carves out the strangest rock formations.
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