The Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California, lies between Coal Oil Point in Goleta and Point Sal near Lompoc, and includes coastal watersheds from the top of a ridge to the ocean.
Orchards produce crops such as macadamia nuts and avocados.
Now a sparsely populated coastal region which enjoys abundant marine life, coastal streams, and mild climate, it is believed that Chumash Indians made this one of their most active community and port locations for hundreds of years. There's something really special about Gaviota. It was pretty much as I remembered it as a child. I remember taking walks with my mother hand in hand down the beach south to the drain tunnel that ran under the railroad tracks which drained onto the beach. I remember Tim the Lifeguard baby sitting me on the beach as my mom would fish on the peer .