Looks like they turned around and headed north again over the southern part of Torrey Pines, a high bluff at the north end of La Jolla. Up on the bluff, you have the sprawling main campus of the University of California at San Diego, the mentioned paragliding port, and some of the most expensive homes in SoCal — which is saying a lot.
Below are Torrey Pines State Beach and Blacks Beach. The south end of Blacks is a famous surf break, where the Scripps submarine canyon, oriented just so, focuses big Pacific swell from distant storms. The nude beach is at the north end.
The mentioned major cliff failure at Blacks Beach in 2023, but smaller ones happen all the time...
All of the sea cliffs shown in the video you posted are subject to this kind of episodic slide without warning. Result: An average sea cliff retreat rate of 5 cm/year all along the SoCal coast.
All the ultra-posh estates and homes and view condos right on the bluff edges will eventually be condemned, undermined, and destroyed, but no one can say exactly when. Quite a dilemma for owners and public safety officials.
More on Torry Pines cliff failures.
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We live in south Carlsbad, ~15 mi north of Torrey Pines. The southbound lanes of this nearby stretch of Coast Highway are severely threatened by cliff failure and will soon be shifted inland to where the northbound lanes are now. Where they'll put the latter is beyond me.
I ride through here all the time. Maybe I should carry a shovel.
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A sea cliff stability inspector catching the cliff-face updraft happened by when I took those photos.
If geology teaches anything, it's that one way or another, gravity always wins in the end.
