Santa Monica: An Urbanized Beach
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2015-06-10

The beach proximate to the Santa Monica Pier is a highly urbanized beach with large number of people visiting the beach each year (especially in the summer months) and all the attendant knock-on effects from a large population concentrating themselves in a narrow strip of land between the ocean and land.  This is a lightly attended day.  It was midweek and had been raining much of the morning, keeping most visitors away or to the covered recreation on the pier itself.