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By The Beautiful Sea

8/31/2016

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    ... Continued from yesterday:
      Last Friday my daughter suggested that we spend the day - that is, the pre-napping segment of the day - at the beach, an easily accessible and frequent destination  as my daughther and her family live 2 miles from where the neighborhood ends,

...and the sand begins.
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     The Manhattan Beach panorama is so beautiful,
...with the Palos Verde Peninsula to the south,
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...and Santa Monica to the north.
Okay, I totally cheated here with my super-zoom lense,

...but it's still  a really nice view - a little  less zoomed-out here,
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…the palm trees and  architecture behind us,
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...the sky above, and the sparkling blue sea below,
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…this being the deepest I ever venture out into, and I'm perfectly happy just to walk along the beach, "close by the margin of the water",  as the Stephen Foster song goes.

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     The thing is, despite being a native Philadelphian -  meaning that I should have some Jersey Shore in my DNA -  the ocean has always scared me.  Maybe it's because I never learned to swim.  Or maybe I just don't like being tossed around. 
      However, for those who do, Manhattan Beach is known to be a great surfing beach,

...and there were quite a few surfers out looking for good waves the day we were there.
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      Manhattan Beach is also considered the mecca of  beach volleyball, and The Manhattan Beach Open national beach volleyball championship tournaments are held here.
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      However for the rest of us there was the sun and the sand,
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...and the surf,
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...and the swings,
...and a cute  little carry-out restaurant on the beach
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...from which we bought surprisingly yummy wraps, salads, grilled cheese sandwiches, and french fries.
      Or maybe everything just tastes better he sea.
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