{"id":26039,"date":"2019-06-11T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26039"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:03:24","slug":"california-beachin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beachin\/","title":{"rendered":"California Beachin&#8217; Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/beachenter.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Beach Things to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/piers-list.html\">Walk a pier<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sunbathe, sleep<\/li>\n<li>Swim<\/li>\n<li>Take a surf lesson<\/li>\n<li>Rent a surrey bike, bicycle or roller blades<\/li>\n<li>Ride an amusement in Santa Monica or Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Nature watch seals, birds, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Fly a kite<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sandcastle-festivals-contests.html\">Build a sandcastle<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Eat<\/li>\n<li>Read<\/li>\n<li>Listen to tunes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/santa-cruz-beach-concerts.html\">Attend a beach concert<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shop<\/li>\n<li>Walk, jog<\/li>\n<li>Find a beach yoga class (Redond Beach offers free yoga on the pier!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/long-beach-aqualink.html\">Take a boat ride<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paddleboard, rentals available<\/li>\n<li>Play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/california-beach-volleyball.html\">beach volleyball<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Take pooch to dog beaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A friend from Sacramento told me it was hot this week &#8212; like 100 degrees! It made me stop in my tracks and think back to my really hot day. I live near the beach but all day long people were griping about the heat. Walking out of the store a guy talking to himself said, &#8220;Man, it&#8217;s hot out here.&#8221; The clerk inside Albertson&#8217;s didn&#8217;t want to take her break outdoors because it was too hot (it reached 83 degrees that day.)<\/p>\n<p>As the day wore on I began to feel the heat more and more with each encounter. Realizing it was definitely beach weather, I headed for the ocean where you can usually find respite. Not a free parking spot was afforded me in Seal Beach where I planned to walk the recently renovated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/seal-beach-pier.html\">Seal Beach Pier<\/a> to cool my jets.<\/p>\n<p>So I worked my way to another free beach parking lot a few miles away in Sunset Beach. I hit pay-dirt there and found free parking just feet from the sand. It was slightly warm but an afternoon breeze was moving in.<\/p>\n<p>How spoiled are we beach-dwellers? It&#8217;s all relative. Have a beachin&#8217; summer!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Things to Do Walk a pier Sunbathe, sleep Swim Take a surf lesson Rent a surrey bike, bicycle or roller blades Ride an amusement in Santa Monica or Santa Cruz Nature watch seals, birds, etc. Fly a kite Build a sandcastle Eat Read Listen to tunes Attend a beach concert Shop Walk, jog Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26040,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions\/26040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}