California coast

PV shipwreck — 52 years later

Beach Life, California coast, DG Creations, Photography, Surf N Pixels

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The SS Dominator ran aground in March 1961. Fifty-two years later, the debris is strewn along the Palos Verdes coast.

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I knew I was almost there when I started seeing this.

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Hard to believe so much of the rusted shell remains so many decades later.

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View to the sea

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And rebirth among the ruins.

Winds have died down, thank goodness

Beach Life, California coast, DG Creations, Dockweiler, Photography, Surf N Pixels

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Whenever the winds kick up for hours on end, rattling the house in unsettling ways, I think of Joan Didion’s seminal essay on gusty weather in these parts. You have to live here for a while to appreciate how unnerving these howling winds can be. Thankfully, they have mostly died down now. Per the LAT, power has been restored locally; the worst of it is over.

As you were.