On a sunny day, the water looks sooooo inviting, especially at low tide with a flat, sandy beach. Of course, the water is icy cold, so back onto the shore!
Many of the older piers along the Southern California coast have either fallen away, or been converted to places to buy a taco or cast for shore fish. This is a newer, working pier, designed for the pickup and transport of workers from the oil rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel.
From the perspective of this image, it is not really possible to see what this tree looks like. Eucalyptus trees tend to grow straight up . . . somehow, sometime, this one toppled over and continued to grow. “E+J” were here, rather than Kilroy. BTW, this is a pano of about 8 images.