Along the Coast - Southern OC

The southern coastal part of Orange County is always beautiful in Summer. The days are moderately warm and the nights are cool.  The beaches are usually crowded, but not terribly.  

San Clemente is the southernmost town. 

I am always associating Richard Nixon with the town - San Clemente and the Winter Whitehouse. Or was that Key Biscayne?

Beautiful beaches and a pier that juts out quite a good ways into the Pacific Ocean.

I like any town that has trains.

Sunset.

More Summer Travels

Sunset in North Park, San Diego

Sunset cliffs, the edge of the known world - Point Loma.

The back of the restored North park theater. 

In training. Or running to Mexico, I'm not sure which.

San Juan Capistrano

It was a beautiful early Summer's day, late June. Quite hot in the desert, so we drove down to the Coast, stopping first in Dana Point, then San Juan Capistrano. No sign of swallows.  I'm swallowing much better, though - I've been having some problems with my throat of late and was worried that it was something serious. Turned out to be fairly innocuous, for which I'm grateful. So it was nice to enjoy the beautiful weather.

It just so happened I was wearing my old Tootsie Roll shirt. What were the chances of coming upon this?  Slim to none would be the correct answer I believe.

Cactus in bloom.

More beautiful cactus.

The wall outside the Mission.

The historic Sante Fe Railroad train depot.

December Day on Balboa

It was a bit chilly, so no one was on the Ferris Wheel today.

The ferry landing

The summer crowds are gone.

Very few at the beach, though it was a beautiful day.

The light is perhaps the only good thing about this time of year.

All of the above pictures were taken on my wife's IPhone using the Hipstamatic app. It can take some strangely beautiful pictures.