Half Moon Bay, California

San Mateo County

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Half Moon Bay is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California, on the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula. It has 12,300 inhabitants ( as of 2004). The geographic coordinates are: 37.47 ° N, 122.44 ° West. The metropolitan area has a size of 16.8 km ².

The city is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco and about 15 km west of San Mateo (California ) at the south end of Half Moon Bay, a bay on the Pacific coast. It is one of the few places in the sparsely populated western half of the San Francisco Peninsula.

The special film camera manufacturer GoPro and Odwalla fruit juice manufacturers have their headquarters in Half Moon Bay.

The beach of Half Moon Bay is especially popular for parties, because it is enclosed on both sides by massive cliffs and there is no direct access, making night-time police checks are hardly to be feared. The only access to the beach is a narrow path that has to be crossed only on foot.

Mavericks

At Mavericks Cliff, an underwater rock off the Pillar Point at the north end of Half Moon Bay, about 400 m south-west of Pillar Point and 600 m west of the pier, Pillar Point Harbor, the Pacific waves break particularly high due to the particular shape of the seabed. After heavy winter storms the breakers reach here routinely heights of 7.5 meters and peak values ​​of 25 meters. Therefore, the Mavericks are regarded as so-called big-wave spot.

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