Oceanside Beach & Pier - San Diego, CA, USA

This rotating live feed from SanDiegoWebCam cycles through multiple camera positions across the San Diego area, with the primary view shown here from the rooftop bar of the Oceanside Hotel looking south-west over Oceanside Beach and Pier. Oceanside Pier stretches 610 metres into the Pacific, making it the longest wooden pier on the US West Coast, and was first constructed in 1888 before being rebuilt several times following storm damage. The feed also rotates through cameras at Bali Hai Restaurant and Fathom Bistro, Bait & Tackle on Shelter Island, Tom Ham's Lighthouse on Harbor Island, and Mike Hess Brewing on the eastern side of San Diego Bay.

Oceanside sits in northern San Diego County, 80 kilometres north of the US-Mexico border, and is directly adjacent to Camp Pendleton, the largest US Marine Corps base on the West Coast covering 520 square kilometres. The beach visible in frame is part of a 6.5-kilometre stretch of sand running through Oceanside, one of only three cities in California authorised to host a surf museum, with the California Surf Museum located three blocks from this pier. San Diego County as a whole receives an average of 266 sunny days per year, which accounts for the consistently clear Pacific horizon visible across all camera positions in this feed.

The wider San Diego Bay feed positions show one of the busiest naval harbours in the world, home to the US Navy's Pacific Fleet with over 50 warships based at Naval Base San Diego on the bay's eastern shore. Tom Ham's Lighthouse, one of the camera positions in this rotation, sits on Harbor Island and is a fully functioning private aid to navigation, one of the very few privately operated lighthouses in the United States. San Diego Bay itself covers 46 square kilometres and handles both military and commercial traffic alongside a substantial recreational boating fleet.

Did You Know? Oceanside Pier at 610 metres is the longest wooden pier on the US West Coast, originally built in 1888 and rebuilt multiple times after storms destroyed earlier versions.

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