Ocean Beach: Fog, Fauna, and Flora

$28.00 at de Young Museum.

A charmingly illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach and the coastal ecology of San Francisco. Grab your beach blanket and your puffy jacket (this is San Francisco, after all) and get ready to see Ocean Beach like never before. Longtime local surfer and scientist Eddy Rubin celebrates this magical sandy stretch through stories of its animals and plants and the natural and human forces that have shaped this coastal environment. From sand dollars and seaweed to the snowy plovers in the dunes, and stretching out…