Biking around Sunny Southern California
03 November 2010 | Redondo Beach, CA
Donna / Beautiful Sunshine
This was our first time in Channel Island Harbor but we hooked up with our PSCC friends Judy and Paul on s/v Grace so that was nice! We loved seeing homes on the canals with their boats tied just outside.
Our run from Channel Island Harbor to Marina Del Rey was 50 miles, a nice day run. Finally got some dolphins playing in our bow wave. I love standing and watching them from the bow.
The Del Rey yacht club allows us three days reciprocal so we enjoyed being back. We stopped here on the way up from Maine when I flew back home from LAX. This time is was Nathan who would fly home so we knew just where to go to catch the bus to the terminal. We met a great couple (from Poulsbo and knew mutual friends) while visiting a local church. They offered to take us sight seeing on Monday so we went to see the Getty Villa in Palisades. Check out http://www.getty.edu/visit/�"great collection of antiquities set in a villa setting reproduction.
We had the bikes out at Channel Island Harbor and enjoyed two days of biking and we knew we'd use them again so we just left them upright secured in the stern and it wasn't a problem. We used them another two days in LAX and this time we only MOTORED another 13 miles to Redondo Beach but used our bikes for another 12 mile trip around the town here. Their waterfront is gorgeous and I chose it for our one picture this time. We could tell it was going to be a super hot day and no wind so we took advantage of the yacht club's fresh water to clean up the boat, pull out the sun shades and see the city. Last time we were here, we only walked up to the grocery so we didn't see much.
Last night we watched the Election Coverage (Go, Republicans!) and beautiful sunset. We're off today for Newport Beach, 40 miles, hopefully under sail.