Most of my photos of the ocean have been of the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Since I'm an east coast guy, I guess that makes
sense. But, I have spent a reasonable amount of time on the west coast of the
years and have seen my share of the Pacific from the San Diego, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Eureka, California regions.
This photo of the historic Santa Monica Pier was taken from
a vantage point on Ocean Avenue, probably in the vicinity of Wilshire Boulevard
overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway, the beach and the pier. I took this
photo on my "Last Hollywood Tour" in May of 2009. I had left my ranch
in the Shenandoah Valley about seven months earlier. I called it my Last Hollywood
Tour because I specifically made spending a couple days in Hollywood a part of the
trip (visiting my "outlaws" - former in-laws) to see what was still in
existence of the recording world I remember from the time I spent in Hollywood during
the 70's and 80's.
The Hollywood part of the trip was disheartening because much
of what I remembered as gone, demolished, boarded up or repurposed for some other
use. But, I managed to navigate my way through the dense traffic down to the beach.
It's always a favorite place for me to go. I'm drawn to the oceans. Interestingly,
as much as I'm drawn to the oceans, I've never lived at the ocean. Perhaps I'll
choose to find a few ocean locations where I'll stay for a while during my nomadic
wanderings. Santa Monica Beach won't be one of those places. There are far too many
people here for me.
2 comments:
I have only driven by, but the Grand Banks of North Carolina may be what you are looking for at the time I was there you could get pretty close to the ocean.
I appreciate your suggestion. I've actually spent a fair amount of time on the Outer Banks of NC. I have a friend who has a timeshare beach house between the sound and the ocean - both can be seen from the upper deck of his house that is located in the town of Duck. He has allowed me to use it for a week at a time several times over the past several years. I like the Outer Banks. I've been to where the road ends at the north end of the island chain, I still have to explore all the way to the southern most end. I've also been to Chincoteague Island on the Virginia coast (Del Marva Peninsula - I like it there a lot, too. Actually, I've been to and am familiar with many of the eastern coastal beach areas all the wayfrom NJ down to Key West, the Gulf Coast of FL and Padre Island in TX. The east coast and the Gulf Coast beach areas are probably a bit easier to get access to than the west coast beaches, but I haven't really explored as much of the western beaches, so I may be wrong. The challenge, of course, is that there is only a limited amount of coast line.
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