Why is it called Pfeiffer Beach?

Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is named after John Pfeiffer and his family. Several features in Big Sur are named for the descendants of the Pfeiffer family: Pfeiffer Beach, Pfeiffer Falls Trail, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, and Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.



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Famous for its purple sand with tiny flecks of garnet tinting the sand purple, Pfeiffer Beach along the Big Sur, PCH Highway 1 Tour is a photographer's paradise with a beautiful rugged coastline, crashing waves and a beautiful rock formation known as Keyhole Sea Arch.

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Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is named after John Pfeiffer and his wife Florence who lived in a cabin along the north bank of the Big Sur River beginning in 1884. He was the son of Michael Pfeiffer and Barbara Laquet who immigrated from France and were amongst the first European settlers in the area.

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Sitting on Monterey Bay, Capitola is a little beach town with a big claim to fame: It's the oldest beach resort on the West Coast. Located five miles south of Santa Cruz and 40 miles north of Monterey, Capitola started out as a tent camp on the beach in the 1870s.

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If you are planning to go into the water near Pfeiffer Beach, we recommend being extremely careful and preferably wearing a sweatsuit as the water here is extremely cold and is known for dangerous rip currents.

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Olivine Sand Sand of almost exclusively olivine grains is very rare, and Papakolea is one of only four green sand beaches in the world. The others are Hornindalsvatnet in Norway, Punta Cormorant in the Galapagos Islands, and Talofofo Beach in Guam.

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Pfeiffer Beach, Monterey County, California Technically, Pfeiffer Beach along California's Central Coast is more purple than pink. Thank the manganese garnet from nearby mountains for adding the tint of color to the sand. However, when the sunset is just right, the beach exhibits a pinkish glow.

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Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur Water from the creek to your left forms a long pool in the sand in front of you, which you can easily walk around (or through). To your left, a crescent-shaped arc of sand is backed by tall sea cliffs.

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Ureki Beach: Georgia Regarded as the only magnetic black sand beach in the world, this stretch of soft black sand sits along the country of Georgia's Black Sea coast in the small coastal town of Ureki.

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Gold sand at Coronado Island, San Diego, CA | Coronado island, Coronado, Beach.

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A beach with real purple sand you ask? Yes, it is rare and you can find the purple sand beach at Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur. Not only is the beach sand unique but the just offshore is the unique Keyhole Arch which is one of the photographed shots at Big Sur.

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Black beaches are so rare because they're only formed under very specific conditions. Essentially, when hot lava is rapidly cooled by the ocean, basalt rock is formed and shattered into tiny pieces and black sand.

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The tan color of most sand beaches is the result of iron oxide, which tints quartz a light brown, and feldspar, which is brown to tan in its original form.

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Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, California, USA.

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