USA/CA: Bowling Ball Beach
An absolutely spectacular beach with bizarre round rock ball formations, Bowling Ball Beach is worth every effort hiking to. The desolate and remote beach has dozens or even hundreds of nearly perfect spherical boulders resembling bowling balls. These are the result of the geological process of concretion where the sandstone is compressed by erosion into these round shapes. Similar beach is in New Zealand at Moeraki Boulders or the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota or the Valley of Balls in Kazakhstan – but this is a rather rare geological phenomenon. The balls at Bowling Ball Beach can only be seen at low tide (we got lucky) and the beach and cliffs around them are equally spectacular.
