Down the coast from Monterey, California (along Highway 1 – Pacific Coast Highway), is a place called McWay Falls – inside the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. Here you will find McWay Creek feeding McWay Falls, and ending on the beach in a nice protected cove (conveniently call McWay Cove). No, I do not know who McWay was.
There is no access to the beach (and it is not allowed anyway). While I was there waiting for the sunset, a couple really big wave came in and the swamped the rocks in the middle of the cove.