Seacliff State Beach

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Seacliff is a California State Beach located off Highway 1 in the town of Aptos about 5 miles south of Santa Cruz, on State Park Drive. The beach is most known for the concrete ship SS Palo Alto lying in the water. After the recent storms the ship broke in half and it's sinking. 
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Wonderful place to camp along the beach. It's hard to get reservations, but worth it once you get a spot. Enjoy!
Gorgeous beach off of Hwy 1, in Aptos. Set up for campers, primarily, but also has day use parking.

There's a lovely shop inside the park with a touch tank and a lot of historical and ecological information about Monterey Bay.

A giant husk of a concrete ship, the SS Palo Alto, rests at the end of a fishing pier. It was built as a tanker at the end of WW1.

It's a ship...made out of concrete. Just let that soak in.


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