A day at the beach

Thurs we packed a lunch and hopped into the two cars, ladies and baby in one, men and three year old in the other. It is an hours drive to Ventura beaches. You drive through such dry brown hills. Avocado's and oranges are the only colors that reach past the brown. Every where you look there are little stands selling fruits and honey. As we pulled out of the hills and suddenly saw the beach my heart beat so hard it seemed to match the crashing waves. What excitement to once again be on the Southern California beaches. Bleach boy once surfed the Ventura county line but this was my first time to this pretty northern beach.


Of course the children were all asleep after the hours drive


There was plenty to explore and we stayed all day


If you click to enlarge this photo you will see a sea gull eyeing our lunch fixings!

Too bad. No surfing today nothing but windy chop!

The baby was very upset with the loud crashing of the waves so mom kept her bundled and away from the water until she fell to sleep again

Only son got an important phone call for work and he is under the baby blanket trying to see a pocket P.C screen in this bright sunlight

Bleach Boy and Flynn

I was testing the waves seeing if they would brake near but not on me.

Flynn decided to join me

Soon the tide began coming in so I stepped up higher and took this photo of Flynn almost too late to run away!

Lunch
Oh remember I told you my son liked to make wild and crazy looking shirts? His favorite has always been Hawaiian shirts so if you find one to pass along he'll wear it to the studio for work I'll bet!

Flynn had been throwing sand in the water to see it splash all over,

His dad is trying to show him the wonders of tossing one little rock

Ready....Set......

TOSS!

Looked to be some grand parents playing with their grand kids

They didn't know what sea weed was good for so Only Son showed them the wonders of sea weed, at least he didn't show them how to eat it as he had while living in Japan

A big wooden play boat was discovered!

It had a rope swing that everyone had such a good time on!

Bleach Boy catches Flynn on the end of the ride.

The silver on the water is warning us we still have an hours drive home

Good-bye pretty beach

I asked Eden how she found such a lovely beach. She said she went online and looked up pretty beaches!