I imagine this is what you'd see looking north from the vicinity of present-day Santa Monica Pier before the Portugese explore Cabrillo sailed into the bay. Only a few bands of Chumash Indians lived in small fishing villages dotting the coast.

I made a second version of the painting "Pre-Cabrillian Santa Monica Bay" by digitally adding one of Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillo's ship's arrival at Santa Monica Bay in 1542. Cabrillo died after injuring himself in a fall while fighting off native Americans on one of the Channel Islands in 1543.