Ann Hartley
In my view this is one of the nicest beaches in Southern California and has more free parking than you can imagine. The catch is that there are stairs to go up and down to get from the beach to the parking lot. They are easy stairs, though, and as I wanted to spend all day down by the water I took a stair climbing hand cart that has a comfy fold-down seat. At the bottom of well over 100 stair steps there is this ramp which was way harder to go up and down than the stairs. Fortunately there is a metal fence most of the way, which is a necessity for people carrying stuff when the wind comes up.
It is a narrow strand and as you see in my photo, the sand is wet right up to the rocks, meaning the tide was too high for pitching a shade thing. No matter, it was also too windy for that. When high waves finally chased us all off the beach it was early enough to get a nice picture with no people there. A beach with no people is my favorite kind.
That beach looks really familiar. It looks a bit like Pismo with that rock in the distance and what’s on top of the cliff. Is it? I guess many of these beaches look similar. I don’t remember this ramp, though.Of course, it might be my memory.
Hey, stranger! No, Barbara Hart Radisavljevic, this one is further south, but I know which beach you mean. The little cart you saw me with at SLO Bot got up and down those steps like nobody’s business. Love it! Just ordered a SafeGo portable lock box for it today so next trip I can drop my phones in the safe and attach it and the cart to a fence or whatever and wander around unencumbered.
Sounds like a great plan. Wish we could do the Botanical Garden in Santa Barbara next time you’re around. But it’s a several hour exploration. Might be too much for me with travel both ways in one day.
Have you been to the Nipomo Native Garden?
No. I’ve never even heard of it. Sounds like I’d better look it up.
Gorgeous view! I love the empty beaches too, but indeed it usually means that the weather is too windy and cold.
Or as in this case, the tides come too high and wash over the rocks!
Beautiful beach. It is nice to spend a day with this kind of beach.
Very nice, indeed, Gil. Thank you for looking at it.
You are very much welcome.
Wooow …. The beach is fantastic… like a fairy tale
vidocka I agree. Just like a fairy. It is several hours from my home so I do not get to see it often.
Beautiful Southern California, I miss it.
I expect you will miss it even more in February. Is this your first winter in Chicago?
I’m going on my 4th Winter in Chicago. Illinois is where I grew up, but I would love to leave at some point after I graduate from college.
I spent my first 2 years of college in Illinois, but moved west after a particularly nasty March snowstorm. It was the last straw! But I have to say that in my time Illinois schools were much better, so you are wise to tough it out until you graduate.
And that is one of the things I love about Chicago, are the colleges. I have had some great professors that pertain to my major entirely.
This is a really beautiful beach
Thank you, glad I could share it.
I hope you ever dig here and enjoy yourself
The beach is beautiful indeed, and hey… We like the same beach atmosphere, a beach with no people…
Maybe we should have said “no OTHER people.”
Hahaha… Ya ya ya… “no OTHER people.” Ann…
I think you prefer a beach with nobody else on it… a beach with nobody on it means you’re not there either…
Yes, and as you can see that is exactly what I got. Yet another case of “Be careful what you wish for.” But I was the only one on the stairs, I got all 164 of those to myself. How cool is that?!
Pretty damn cool. I guess 164 stairs are an effective barrier to entry
For this view, I could kill ..hah.
Yes, I know exactly what you mean, marija64
Love the photo, and now I want to go to the beach.
Thank you LaJenna, I do too, but it may be a while before I can go again.