...Barely tolerable, I daresay...

For Sis' Xmas pressie, she wanted to go to Malibu Lagoon and crawl around in the tidepools. OK. We experiented with a different way to get there, and it was a bad thing. Very twisty/winding road. Thought sis was gonna puke. We'll go Malibu Canyon from now on.

The tide is extremely low lately, even with the high surf being suffered at many beaches in So Cal. The tidepools were full of anemonies and other flora. We also found a sea urchin and many starfish. LARGE starfish! I saw one who was interrupted in his meal by the tide being out. You could see the carnage of opened clam shells on the rocks nearby, and he was even partially perched on his latest meal. Only one sea slug this time. A kid was shrieking that he found an octopus waaay out there, but we have our doubts.

We found minimal shells and sea glass on this visit. I figured with all the pounding surf, and low tide we would find far more stuff. Not really. Oh well. We had fun looking. The air and the water temperatures were very similar, so it didn't feel too bad to wade a bit. The Malibu Creek is quite full and fast. Most unusual from the way it normally is. VERY COLD!!! Lots of surfers to the southwest.

After about 4 hrs at the lagoon, we went on to Malibu State beach further up the coast. It was VERY windy and the beach was well groomed to the point of there being no shells or rocks or anything of interest to us.

We fed the seagulls Sun Chips again. I have no idea how a bird of that size can stuff down a whole chip! Then their necks are all crooked! Sis gave them wasabi Funyuns and they liked those as well. One fellow was quite bold and would take things from our hands and would chase all the others away with his beak biting their tails and wings beating them around the head. Quite the piggy. I think he attempted to barf at one point. Or maybe it was a burp. Then he proceeded to beat up a few other birds.

Today was spent in much laziness and taking sis to her clinic appt for her ear infection.  It seems her culture came back as yeast, so the antibiotics aren't helping.  Time for diflucan! 

I have so much to do and am not feeling the energy to do it at the moment.  I've got a stack of laundry a foot high that needs to be hung up.  I Have put away the stuff  that could be folded and put into the dresser.  I just hate doing the hanger thing....  Did hubby help besides all his protestations of always being the one to take care of it?  Nope!  He's having work stress, so I won't bring it up tonight.  I guess stuff is hitting the fan at his shop and it ain't perty.