On The Beaches

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On The Beaches

...Continued from yesterday:
     On Saturday morning the family decided to take Pinky Poo out for brunch,

​...to a restaurant in nearby Hermosa Beach,

...called Good Stuff,

...where dogs are welcome and have their own menu.

     So we set out to walk the 21/2 miles to Hermosa Beach,

​...well, some of us walked,

...through the neighborhoods,

​...to Hermosa Beach.

     We walked the rest of the way along the Strand,

...as the 22-mile walkway along the Los Angeles South Bay beaches is called,

...until we reached Good Stuff, which was plenty crowded,

​...and we had  quite a long wait,

...however Pinky was patient,

​...and eventually we were seated.

     Everyone thought the  food was good,

...though I can personally vouch for the veggie wrap, which was very good,

​...and my daughter especially liked her Vegan Power Salad.

   Alas, Pinky's parents decided not to order him any brunch, recalling that last time they ordered him a doggie meal from Good Stuff he nibbled the meat off the top and left all the healthy rice (See post from 12/7/2017).

     The following day, Sunday, was Tom's and my last day in Los Angeles, and so my daughter suggested that we spend the afternoon at the San Pedro tide pools, which we'd visited last year on Thanksgiving day (see post from 12/4/2017).
      And so we drove out to San Pedro, which is about 20 miles South of Manhattan Beach, stopping for lunch at a little place we found near the beach.

      Tom ordered a nicely grilled burger with potato salad,

...while my daughter ordered a burger ingeniously tucked  into lettuce instead of a bun (must file this idea away for future reference). ​

   I had a so delicious grilled cheese steak sandwich with grilled red onions that - dare I say this? - might well give a Philly cheese steak a run for its money, despite the bread format and the wrong color onions.

​  An actual Philly cheese steak (See post from 6/2/2018).

     Me chowing down on an actual Philly cheese steak (See post from 6/2/2018).

     By good fortune there was a small empty table nestled in a corner behind our booth where the girls were able to sit by themselves and pretend to be grown-ups while enjoying their hot dogs.

     After lunch we continued on to the tide pool beach,

​....which was at the bottom of a sunken canyon.

     Though it turned out that we'd come  at low tide, when the pools would be at their driest and emptiest,

...still there were plenty of tide poolers out in the shallow spots of sea water scattered among the stones,*

​...looking for  glimpses of sea treasures,

...such as whimsical  anemones,*

​...or this star fish in his habitat.*

    Others were happy to play in the tide,

...or with the stones,

...or to sit on the beach,

...or to stroll around taking in the beautiful vistas.

     By the end of the day some folks were pretty tired out,

​...though I was fine.

     Then suddenly the week was over, and Monday morning we were back in the L.A. airport,

...then back in Columbus,

​...where we again could be "One of Us!" (See posts from  4/29/2018 and 4/30/2018)

* indicates photographs taken by my daughter.