TGNO: 668B1 (alternate page 628G&H7) GPS: 34.01.48N  118.42.24W

Type of Beach: Sandy with rocks in surf line, South to South east facing beach.

Facilities: None Malibu Colony Plaza Shopping center is about 2 miles away to the east.

Average Depth: 30'

Directions: From Pacific Coast Highway take Webb Way south to Malibu Road and turn right (west) past the house with the cannon in front. Watch the speed limit of 25 MPH as it is enforced! TGNO: 628G7.  To view the site before going there, you can go to  Bluff Park at PCH and Malibu Canyon Road across from Pepperdine University. At Bluff park there are restrooms and free telescopes you can use  to check the surf before going down to the site. Bluff park is a great easy to find location with lots of parking you can use to meet your dive buddies and check out prospective dive sites from Malibu Road all the way to Point Dume using the free telescopes provided and then caravan to the selected dive site.

Parking: Street Parking on the north side of the road against the hill only.  The south side of the road next to the houses is private property.  Access to the beach is via a public beach access stairs down to the sand (see picture).  Gate to stairs is locked Sunset to Sunrise and beach is closed. Beach access is via a public access stair. These stairs are marked with a Blue Trash Can with recycling markings and are easy to miss. Often camouflaged by flowering plants it is easier to look for the house address of the house next to the right of way.

Entry:  This beach is subject to a lot of sand movement. The stairs may be 2 feet above the beach with the pipe (see above picture) at shoulder level.  The stairs may also disappear into the sand and the pipe be at your ankle (see below).  I have seen as much as a 4 foot shift in the level of sand in as little as two weeks!  If there is a lot of erosion, then the beach may be rocky instead of sand.   NOTICE: at EXTREME HIGH TIDE the water will come UNDER THE HOUSES and right onto the stairs making the exit rather exciting!  There are beach ball size rocks (see photo above) in the surf line so use caution on entry.  The surf zone is small here and makes for a nice beach dive.

WARNING: The beach often disappears at high tide! Note the wave splash on the cement of the house below.

The DIVE:  South facing beach would tend to make this a better winter dive when the predominate swell is out of the north.  Swim out to the kelp (about 100 yds)  and then either follow it east or west (I have always gone east).  To the east there is both kelp and scattered rocks.  To the east there is a large rock about 15-20 feet long and approximately 10-15 feet tall.  The kelp bed can be quick thick here with lots of life.  As always when beach diving, do not linger in the surf zone.  See  http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=3912&mode=sequential&flags=0 for more aerial photographs of the beach to the left and right of the photographs above.

 Note depth is in fathoms.

Topo Map of the area

Alternate site: 24320 Malibu Road  GPS: 34.01.50N 118.42.15W

Type of Beach: Rocky (sometimes sandy as there is a lot of sand movement here).

The Dive:  Enter and swim to west.  Same dive plan as 24434 Malibu Road from the opposite direction.  Swim out and drop down at the kelp bed and swim west.  This is often a more rocky entry.

The public access near 24320 Malibu Road. Note the trash can that tells you it is the right spot is placed behind the wall so you can easily pass it when coming from the east.

The public access from the beach side is between the White house and the Brown House.  Note Public Property ends at the high tide line.  To walk under the house makes you subject to trespass laws and endangers our diving. Please do not walk under the houses. The first time I dove this site, the beach was all rocks and you had to go over to the vacant lot to the right from this view to get in.  But as you can see here, now there is a sand beach.  Bottom line, the sand comes and goes by as much as 4 feet in a few weeks. Again at High Tide the beach here DISAPPEARS!

DISCLAIMER: Dive site descriptions, while believed to be accurate are not guaranteed and should not be relied upon for making your dive decisions.  Dive site conditions can and do change and each diver is responsible for making their own site survey to determine present conditions and the suitability of the site for diving. Every diver is responsible for their own diving decisions.

Beach aerial photographs used with permission of Kenneth Adelman Copyright (C) 2002-2004, California Costal Records Project, http://www.californiacoastline.org/ 

Webpage designed by Melvin Pasley of Pasley Realty May 30, 2005.