In 1663 an English sea captain, William Hilton, for whom the island is named, sighted the high bluffs (headlands) of the island.
Wright's Beach Sonoma Coast State Park, CA SCSP offers sandy beaches, rock bluffs, headlands, and a sick sunset over the Pacific to cap off your day.
2 More than 33 miles of uninterrupted beach at the foot of bluff and headland.
El Morro (the "Headlands," or "Bluff"), or Inscription Rock, is a soft sandstone mesa (cuesta) rising 200 feet (60 metres) above the valley floor.
— While other visitors hiking the majestic bluffs known as the Marin Headlands stare out toward mesmerizing views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean, Ann Sieck gazes at the ground, puzzling over a rock jutting up from the path.
The Land Trust claims that mesa soils are "destroyed" and "severely depleted". But it provides no evidence that the soils on the mesa are any different than soils at the Dana Point headlands or any other coastal bluff top site.
Next you can join the Lands End Trail, which leads along a bluff top with a views to the Marin Headlands.
To connect a wind-scuffed bluff on one side of the strait to the Marin headlands on the other was once thought to be preposterous.
Here, cypress groves open up to craggy bluffs with 30-mile views of the Golden Gate bridge and the Marin Headlands on the other side of the Bay.
ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France, Oct. 4 - The estate that belonged to John Kerry's grandparents sits high on a bluff in this Brittany resort town, a massive stone house overlooking a stunning landscape of wind-tossed ocean and jagged headlands.
Founded in 1916 and set on more than 50 acres that cascade down the bluffs and slope across the headland, this is a world-class zoo.
