Beach Day - Santa Monica & Point Vicente Lighthouse

Monday August 25

I'm just a day behind . . . having too much fun.

Since leaving home, I have not had a beach day. Today I took it! I drove to Santa Monica, via 101 south, 110 south, and 10 west. Geez! What a headache! Thank goodness it was only about a half hour drive.

I hung out on the beach for about 3 hours, just relaxing, reading, and people watching. Before I drove home I grabbed a quick corndog from a little dive on the pier. It was a good day.

A view of the Santa Monica Pier from my beach chair.

A view from the pier

Such a great day until it was time to drive home. Yuk!

 

I had a great thought while I was at the beach. The Point Vicente Lighthouse has a Los Angeles address, so I thought it would be fun for Corey and I to have a picnic at the lighthouse at sunset. Well, it was the thought that counts. The drive was a little longer than I thought it would be, so although we found the lighthouse relatively easy, it was already dark when we got there. But nonetheless, we ate our Subway sandwiches with a view of the beautiful lighthouse in the dark. I couldn't get any good pictures so I grabbed a couple off the Internet. I have been to this lighthouse before (as has Corey) so I wasn't totally bummed.

 

This is what the lighthouse would have looked like had we made it at sunset. There were some really cool clouds in the sky, just like this.

Point Vicente Lighthouse