The other day I made a trip out to one of my favorite places in the world: the beach at Bolinas, CA - about an hour's drive from Oakland or San Francisco,  north of SF, just past Stinson Beach on the Pacific coastline - where the beach is beautiful, the surfers many, and the out-of-context yet unobtrusive graffiti along the beach aplenty as usual.  And as usual much of the graffiti & murals along the beach at Bolinas is influenced by its surroundings: IE images of surfers and sharks and birds - as you will see in some of the pics below - part one in this three part series.

Of course this was just the other day, meaning in these immediate post Bay oil spill days. And even though technically Bolinas was not closed off to the public for fear of oil contamination and even though surfers were out en masse, it was still not completely safe - especially for dogs without leashes as you will see from some of the signs below - although that didn't deter a couple of canines that I saw running freely (without leashes) along the Bolinas beach. One of the reasons it was unsafe for dogs was because oil-contaminated birds were still showing up on the beach.

Above and below are some of the warning images from the beach at Bolinas but mostly images of graffiti art (of all sizes and types)  along the beach walls and leading down to the beach - all taken the other day.

This is Part One in a three part series. Part Two in this series will be posted in a few days and Part Three (which will include more big graffiti pieces) in about a week.  Thanks for checking it!  And if you know of any remote rural spots in NorCal where you also unexpectedly find graffiti or murals please share in the COMMENTS box all the way down.