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An influx of anchovies, thousands possibly millions of the baitfish, inundated the waters near the Santa Cruz coastline this week, drawing sea birds of all sorts, and stoking concerns at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor.
The West Cliff Drive we know today — Santa Cruz’s “front porch,” a surfing mecca and the site for a procession of multimillion-dollar homes/objects of envy that represent the Sunset magazine ideal of the California Good Life — is a shockingly recent development. Coastline erosion has been an ongoing constant, consistent over decades and centuries — but now we humans are adding a new wrinkle: climate change.
There is value in looking back from time to time to see not only what our region looked like in the not to distant past, but also to realize how much has changed and how differently it could have turned out had history gone in a different direction.
Officials did not expect major flooding but warned that the situation — caused by a volcano erupting near the South Pacific nation of Tonga — posed dangers to swimmers, surfers and boats.
The hardest hit area of California appeared to be Santa Cruz Harbor where the tsunami waves rushed in at high tide, overflowing an embankment and flooding streets.