Monday found us on the move again, this time over to the Pacific coast to Laguna Beach where we are staying at the Crystal Cove State Park. We are so lucky because this is a very popular campground and its spring break time. We pulled in around 11 am and the attendant said that someone had just cancelled and we could have his site, number 13, for two days. This place is beautiful! It sits on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean with easy beach access and long hikes into the canyon to the east of here. Its too bad we can’t stay longer as we would enjoy taking a couple of hikes.
Views from our campground.
We had dinner Monday night with our friend Jeff and Linda who live just a couple of miles from the park and graciously invited us to their home. These are friends we made when we owned the Born Free and enjoy off-road Jeeping with them annually.
Today we climbed on our bikes to ride along the cliff top in the park. Back in the 1920’s people traveled the new Pacific Coast Highway and the Cove became a very popular place to pitch tents and rent cottages. One sign showed the beach lined with canvas tents and wood shacks and told how families would come back year after year to spend the whole summer here. The Irvine Company that rented the cottages built a total of 46 cottages in The Cove area and today they are being restored and rented out to visitors. Its a popular place to come to enjoy the beach and eat breakfast.
I walked the beach this afternoon and enjoyed the sunshine and ocean spray while wading in the waves. I witnessed a man in his kayak try to come ashore on top of the waves but he got caught crosswise for a good dunking. Later a dead sea lion came on shore - boy do they stink!
Santa Catalina Island.
We had a lovely sunset to go along with our steak and wine!
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