Anna Towers holds her new booklets, ‘Tide Pools of the Mendocino Coast: A Photographic Identification Guide for the Area’s Most Common Intertidal Life’ in Fort Bragg, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2024. (Lee Gardner via Bay City News)

MENDOCINO CO., 12/19/24 — Growing up in Hayward, nature photographer Anna Towers didn’t have much access to the natural world. Towers is a fifth-generation Bay Area native, with most of her family still living in Hayward. But Towers always felt drawn to the beaches and forests of the Northern California coastline.

“I fell in love with the Mendocino coastline when my husband and I would take trips up here to do photography,” Towers explained. They even had a wedding ceremony in Mendocino. “We drove all the way up here to Jackson Forest and went into the woods to do a handfasting ceremony. Just the two of us.” 

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Sydney Fishman is a UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow and lives full time in Ukiah. Reach her at sydney@mendovoice.com or through her Signal username @sydannfish.67.