After another 100 yards, past the trash cans, the path narrows and bends, passing a clump of fennel, then rises and falls, eventually becoming the width of a road. Don't take the road on the right, which leads to a golf course. Just past another bench, as the trail starts to turn right, go left toward a group of dead trees, where you'll see a stairway with a sign at the top reading Dogs Must Be Leashed. Follow the stairs to the end, but afterward, instead of going straight, go left to another stairway, which leads to a 100-foot walk to the cove. From the monument, follow one of the paths that start here down to the beach.
Some visitors use rocks to build small windbreaks around their sunbathing spots.
They were reading or dozing in the sun. The cove gets up to 30 visitors a day, of whom around 80 percent are gay men. Can be foggy, windy. Swimming not allowed. Trails other than main one are unsafe, may have poison oak.