Carmel River State Beach (aka Stewart's Cove) 

Porphyritic is an adjective used in geology, specifically for igneous rocks (eg. granite), for rock that has a distinct difference in the size of the crystals, with at least one group of crystals obviously larger than another group.

Something really needs to be fixed with this page, if not removed altogether.

The routes are all listed as "trad" despite being obvious boulder problems, and use sport/trad ratings.

To be fair, I haven't climbed any of these yet for myself, but from the images none of them appear to be much of a problem at all.

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy........lighten up! It should be painfully obvious that the features at Carmel River are boulders, but the ratings are old school Yosemite Decimal System because not all of us grew up nurtured on John Sherman's V grades. If you haven't got first-hand knowledge of the problems, what's your opinion really worth? Take some time off from your day job, bust a few moves, then weigh in on the quality and ratings. Camel Rriver is the Central Coast, not Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Buttermilks, or Hueco Tanks, so recalibrate your star system to the local datum. And judging from your VAST knowledge and experience downgrading climbs at Echo Cliffs and your lack of "hands on" knowledge at Carmel River, your assessment of Carmel River is dubious, at best. Posting the descriptions and photos was to provide beta about Carmel River for MP subscribers, not the unveiling of a destination area. Otherwise, head to one of the aforementioned hotbeds of bouldering, get your hands dirty, then weigh in with some first-hand beta/spray.
Edit: CARMEL RIVER IS A COLLECTION OF PORPHYRITIC GRANITE BOULDERS....

Visited a few weeks ago. Not a bad spot if you want to hang out on the beach and derp around on some small granite formations but the area has little to offer besides that.