As I was saying earlier, we had a lovely time at the beaches yest.  The weather was a bit gloomy when we first got to Will Rogers beach.  All to the better, as it stayed cooler that way.  I slathered myself with sunscreen, and got virtually no color at all.  As I wanted it, but I did try to even out my farmer tan a little bit.  Ever since my trip to Fisherman’s Wharf, I’ve had stripey arms. 

It wasn’t terribly crowded when we got to WRB.  I was surprised.  I figured there would be tons of Angelinos piling onto the beaches on a day like yesterday.  It’s amazing to me that there’s always a family of people who go to the beach in just their street clothes (jeans and t-shirt) who decide they have to go into the water FULLY CLOTHED!  What’s up with that?  WTF?  That’s got to be an uncomfortable ride home!  I don’t like the ride home in a wet bathing suit, much less wet jeans.

Sister got a bit bored at WRB as it doesn’t have any shells to find or rocks to look at or anything else we like to do on the beach besides sit and bake.  So, after 3 hrs at WRB, we jumped in the car and headed North towards Malibu.  I had no idea Malibu was such a long town.  It goes on and on forever!  We could see all the places where the hill tries to come down on Pacific Coast Hwy.  Then there’s other sections where you can see it’s thinking of coming down in the next rainstorm.  We decided to settle near the Malibu Lagoon.  It’s a bit of a trek to the beach from the parking area.  Lots of trees and shrubs and birds and such at the actual lagoon area.  Of course there were signs posted everywhere telling us how bad the water quality is in the lagoon and how mussels and such should not be eaten from the lagoon.  Lovely….  We got to the beach and there are tidal pools with all sorts of fauna and flora to be seen.  Unfortunately, we got there as the tide was coming in, so we couldn’t see much.  On the other hand, the beach is covered with really interesting rocks.  I found a big chunk of some quartz in it’s freshly broken off state.  Lots of stuff that I have no idea what it was, but it was pretty, so I grabbed it.  I found some pieces (really small pieces) of sea glass and a few shells.  I spent most of my time looking for what I call “Holey Rocks”.  They have holes or pits in them from some sort of sea life that burrows into the rock and makes a home.  Hubby found a holey rock with a hole all the way through.  I told him it’s a lucky stone and he needs to keep it with him.  It’s a nice, small size.  Good for pocket or pendant.  I found larger holey rocks, but nothing as cool as his.  He needs the luck right now, though.  We left at beach closing time of 8PM. 

Of course, yesterday was my absolute worst day for my period.  It’s just not cool to have to use the bathrooms at the beach.  If the other people in the bathroom aren’t incredibly crabby for having to use the gross bathrooms, they are just gross people!  Oh well, at least it wasn’t a porta loo. 

Sis and I did have an interesting time clambering around some of the rocks that are piled up in intervals along the beach at WRB.  I assume they are there to save the shoreline from erosion in storms.  They’re pretty cool to look at as they have a bunch of wildlife on and around them.  We saw little, tiny crabs, slightly bigger crabs, anemones, mussels, and little shellfish that suction themselves to the rocks. I have no idea what those were called.  I’ll have to look them up.  Oh, speaking of looking stuff up, I did look up the jellyfish we saw at Malibu.  I saw at least 8-10 of them floating around or beached.  Purple Stripe Jellies.  And they have whiteish bells with purple stripes in a starburst type pattern on the top.  Very pretty if they weren’t capable of delivering a painful sting.   I didn’t fancy a sting from a living or dead jelly! 

I feel incredibly groggy now, so I will stop typing…  Yay, you say!  I’ve typed this out on my laptop and dropped it into my little memory stick thing so I can post w/little computer time.