Botanical Beach

Close to where I live is a botanical beach - there are a LOT of beaches close to where I live, but this one is really popular. So basically, it is a HUGE beach - the ocean comes in, fills hundreds of little pot holes with water, plant life, little creatures - then the tide goes out, and you walk along the beach and look in all these little tide pools at all the ocean life.

So, this is where we went. It was really quite nice - the ocean was crazy - huge waves, plus it was foggy and cloudy so it was pretty cool. I was nice to get out of the 32 degree weather for a bit - even though it is so close.
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So when you first drive up to the park, you have to walk about 15 minutes to get down to the beach. You walk along this rocky, tree rooty, very green trail.



This was a crazy rock formation just randomly placed up on the main rock.

This was a cute tiny little tide pool

This is just a view of the main beach - you can kind of see in the back ground the big waves.


More waves...

View of the trees and beach, you can see the fog in this picture...

This was a huge rock out in the ocean - when the waves washed up on the rock it formed all these adorable little water falls coming off of it. (If you click on it you can see the tiny waterfalls a bit better)

Tide pools...



This last picture is of a cliff - and the rock had broken away from the bottom of the cliff - so when you looked up all you saw was the earth with roots in it and plants growing up from it.


**EDIT** I would like to also add - that all tempetures on this blog are in celcius, not fahrenheit for those of you confused - thinking "who is this crazy chick!! 35 degrees is NOT hot!!!"
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