This group of 29 protected coastal areas will span over 20 percent of California's Central Coast.

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My husband and I, with a couple of other family members, spent the last few days at the central California coast.

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Tiny Avila Beach, smack at the midway point of California's Central Coast, is that throwback beach town, upgraded for your new, adult standards.

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Instead of hoopla, Jackson went looking for the better benchlands and valleys of the central and northern California coast.

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Electronic tagging of 150 great white sharks found off the coast of central California revealed similar findings - the sharks gather in "hotspots".

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Southcorp has already invested with a U.S. partner in the Seven Peaks winery in Edna Valley on the coast of central California and is starting a 200-hectare vineyard of its own not far away.

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The central coast town is home to a California Polytechnic State University.

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