Aptos is home to both the The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park and Seacliff State Beach California state parks.

Due to exclusively sand-bottom beaches, wave shape in Aptos is typically not as high quality as in neighboring Capitola and Santa Cruz.

Aptos is also home to the annual Fourth of July " World's Shortest Parade ," so called because the parade route is about. 6 miles long.

Aptos Park is the site of the annual Aptos Blues Festival.

Cabrillo College is a two-year community college in Aptos.

The High School's winningest team, however, is the Aptos track and field team.

But there is a large creek, Aptos Creek, that goes through Rio del Mar and empties into the Monterey Bay at Rio del mar.

Aptos Creek is the " Rio " in Rio del Mar.

One such example is Cabrillo College in Aptos, California ; another is the portion of State Route 1 that runs through Big Sur, which is also called the Cabrillo Highway.

* 16 – 20 March – Daniel Maloney is launched by balloon in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery and makes three successful flights at Aptos, California, the highest launch being at 3, 000 feet with an 18 minute descent to a predetermined landing location.

The SS Palo Alto, a concrete tanker that was launched May 29, 1919, was purchased and turned into an amusement pier, and is still visible at Seacliff State Beach, near Aptos, California.

Seacliff is a California State Beach located off Highway 1 in the town of Aptos about south of Santa Cruz, on State Park Drive.

California State Route 1 is showing parallel service roads for local traffic in Aptos.

Its main campus is located in Aptos, California and is situated overlooking the Monterey Bay.

Facility planning and major construction has been completed on campus for the Barbara Samper Student Activities Center, and is underway for the Cabrillo College Arts Education Complex ( partially occupied as of Fall 2008 ) and a Health & Wellness Center at the Aptos campus.

It is located outside Aptos, California and contains over of hiking trails and fire roads through of variable terrain.

It also has one junior high school, Aptos Junior High School, and one high school, Aptos High School.

* Awaswas ( also called Santa Cruz Costanoan ): Local bands of Awaswas speakers resided on the Santa Cruz coast and adjacent Santa Cruz Mountains between Point Año Nuevo and the Pajaro Rivers ( Davenport and Aptos ).

Many Aptos beaches are popular spots for surfing and bodyboarding.

The two performed at their old junior high school, which had become Aptos Middle School, in a benefit for the school.

The opera would be revised twice more and the title changed again to ( The Visitors ), for productions in 1968 and 1973, in Mexico City and Aptos, California, respectively ( Parker 2001 ; García Morillo 1960, 171 ).

However, he returned to the court for the first time in just over two years when he competed as a wildcard in a qualifier at the 2012 Comerica Bank Challenger in Aptos, California.

Efforts have gone towards attempting to build a skate park in Aptos, however it appears unlikely at this point.

Although unclear why a skate park was rejected two Bicycle parks adorn the Aptos village, and quite possibly a third in the near future.

The beaches of Aptos are frequented by a small but dedicated group of surfers.

Being a small town, Aptos does not have as many entertainment possibilities to offer as neighboring Santa Cruz, California.

The Aptos Cinemas, long a mainstream movie theater, has become an indie movie house under the leadership of the Nickelodeon corporation in Santa Cruz.

Aptos has three public elementary schools: Valencia Elementary, Rio Del Mar Elementary, and Mar Vista Elementary.

Private schools include Santa Cruz Montessori School, Orchard School, Twin Lakes Christian School, and Aptos Academy.

The Aptos High Mariners varsity boys basketball team reached the state finals in the spring of 1986 and the NorCal Championship in the spring of 1987.

The Aptos High Mariners boys soccer team was nationally ranked and advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation-Central Coast Section ( CCS ) Division 1 finals.

The Aptos girls soccer accomplished the same that year and advanced to the CCS Division 1 finals.

The Aptos High Mariners football team won the 2003 CCS Div II title, its first football CCS title.

The Aptos Little League baseball team made it to the Little League World Series in 2002, and was the subject of a documentary film on PBS, Small Ball: A Little League Story.

In 2005 the Aptos High girls and boys cross country team won the CCS championship and the boys finished third at state championships while the girls were crowned state champions.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.