Sand Dollar Beach

The largest sandy beach on the Big Sur coast, below Pacific Valley, across Highway 1 from Plaskett Creek Campground.

Stories set here

story

The Guano Harvest: Farming the Top of Plaskett Rock

Ed Plaskett and his brothers built a way to the top of Plaskett Rock — where centuries of seagulls had left a crown of first-rate fertilizer, free for the scraping.

place history

Plaskett Rock: The Family Name, Written in Stone

Off Sand Dollar Beach a white-crowned sea stack carries the family's name on every chart of the coast. Bill and Kim photographed it from ridge, point, and sand.

The people of Sand Dollar Beach

Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.

William Nicholas Alderson 1956– · 2 stories
Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
Kimberly Dawn Mueller Alderson 1964–