Pacific Beach, first beach walk

May, 2024

The photo below was the amazing view of the beach and the ocean when I stepped outside my trailer this morning …

The weather was so perfect this week that I was out on that beach every day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, sometimes in the evening. The tide this time of year never comes all the way in/up to the grass, no where near! So there was always plenty of beach for walking, any time of day.

I walked up the park road a little ways in order to find an easy path down onto the beach …

Notice the fisherman out in the surf. Sometimes the surf is dangerous, but today it was calm and posed no danger at all.

I didn’t walk out to the edge of the ocean yet, but walked north on the beach up next to the grass, looking to see what I might find.

There were homes up on a little hill above the beach … and, you might see it, a white dome above the trees pretty much right in the center of the photo below. Click on the photo to enlarge it. What’s that dome all about? A space station for aliens right here on our planet?? [Ok, don’t worry, I’ll show it to you up closer in a little bit and explain what it is. 🙂 ]

On up the beach I walked, sticking close to the grass at first, but always keeping an eye out towards the ocean too.

 

 

 

There were lots of interesting things in the sand too.

 

 

The photo below … a dried up fish of some sort, maybe a salmon?

Nope! It was just a chunk of wood. How tricky this world is, eh? 🙂

I walked up the beach far enough to finally get closer to that big white dome. Here it is below. And here’s what it is … a dome that encloses a huge radar dish. I believe it’s operated by the US Navy. No aliens here. Well, not that we know of. Although, people from other planets would surely be welcome, yes? 🙂

Ok, on up the beach. In the photo below, I was stopped by a small stream of water that was originating in the trees and shrubs on the hill to my right.

I followed it to my right, towards the greenery and the hill.

 

It really did have “flow” to it, it was a tiny little stream. But as it flowed out onto the sand, then the water was absorbed into the sand and this little fresh-water stream stopped short of entering the Pacific Ocean. It was so sweet.

But this monster below! Wow, it could eat you up in a heartbeat!

When I walked up to its “mouth” (yes, I was very brave), the top part of the wood was above my head, so it was about six feet in height. I spoke nicely, and thanked this person for not eating me alive. Eventually, it just yawned (actually it finished yawning, that was a big yawn!) and it smacked its lips and apologized for yawning, it wasn’t trying to eat me alive! See how we are? We make assumptions without asking first. Whew, good lesson for me to learn, NOT to assume the worst, but to assume the best in other people, beings … and monsters. 🙂

Ok, back to the beach. 🙂

Now I wanted to go out to the ocean, to the waves, and get closer to them.

 

You can see in the photo above the results of a “large” wave coming many feet/yards up onto the beach. The wave was only an inch or two deep as it poured gently up onto the sand for quite a long way. As the water then receded back out into the ocean, it left fun little bubbles behind. So gentle.

The waves that smash and dash and blow and crash out further from shore might make you afraid, but there’s no need to fear.

Here’s a video of the ocean taken as I was standing on the beach. It starts looking north up the beach, and ends looking south down the beach. There’s a boat (a fishing boat?) out on the ocean at about :48 in the video, heading north. You can see and hear the crashing waves out there, and yet you can also see the small wavelets coming up onto shore, just meandering in and out. Out there where that fishing boat is, I suspect there are no waves, just swells, or small hills of water, so the boat gently rises and falls, up and down, on top of the water.

And then I walked back to my campsite and Towhee the Trailer. In the photo below, you can see a few homes on the hill on the right just south of the campground, and then a few homes in the village of Pacific Beach on the left to the north of the campground.

Just the campground below and a few kites in the air. You can see the white top of Towhee the Trailer on the left. And you can see that this campground and the campsites are right on the edge of the ocean beach.

And there she is …

I love to wander and explore. And I always love seeing Towhee the Trailer waiting for me when I come back to my campsite.

More beach walks coming, and other stuff too. Thanks for coming along with me on this beach walk. I hope you weren’t too frightened by that yawning monster! 🙂