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If it's the beach in the pic, it's Baker Beach. not really a swimming beach, as the water's cold, the currents can be ripping and it's a popular fishing beach for striped bass, halibut and perch. the eastern end (towards the ggb) is affectionately known as man-fort beach by the local fishermen. basically, it's a nude beach that's frequented mostly by older men.

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Yea, that must be it, there was a naked guy that seemed to be doing laps around the beach or something. We didn't go in the water so I'll trust you about it being cold. It was in May so the weather hadn't totally warmed up yet, although it was pretty hot that day.

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yeah, that's bakers beach...I have a painting of it at my house. It's always effing freezing there no matter what.

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It must have been 80+ that day, by far the hottest weather I've seen in SF or Santa Cruz (I've spent a lot more time in SC). Really nice place to hang out though, the bridge/cliffs in the distance look really cool.

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baker can actually be a very nice respite from the heat during the three days of heatwave that the City experiences every year. when it's 90 downtown, it's usually high 70's at the beach. it's really nice when it's clear at the end of summer and the baitfish are hanging around. the bait attracts the stripers and the stripers attract porpoises. very cool sight to see the sun going down and porpoises playing in the surf