Malibu Beach Excursion
My girlfriend's sister and brother-in-law who both use to live in Los Angeles were in town this weekend and took us to one of their favorite beaches. It's a small state beach that's apart of the Robert H. Meyer Memorial State Beach which is one of the many beaches of Malibu. It's a small secluded beach that's at the bottom of a steep rocky cliff face.
Since moving to Los Angeles from Maryland the weather had been overcast and cool seven days a week and I started to think I had made a wrong turn and settled down in my childhood home of Endicott, NY which seemed to had three sunny days a year on average. It's definately not been the sunny southern California experience that I had been imagining, atleast until last weekend which was a rainy one. It must have pulled all the moisture out of the atmosphere, because it's been sunny every since, except for some morning clouds that burn off by the afternoon. Apparently this is called the Marine Layer with the link expaining that.
Anyways, it was beautiful weather, so after a late lunch at the Farmer's Market we headed to the beach. The following are pictures I took while there. I'll have to go back because we drove through some really beautiful valleys on the way through the Santa Monica Mountains.
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The beach runs along the bottom of a steep cliff face and on the beach are these huge boulders on which all sorts of stuff is growing. While we were there a guy climbed on top of one of them (not the one pictured).
There's all sorts of various wild flowers growing on the cliff face, I tried to get a picture of this neat looking flower that's really tall and thin. Unfortunately there's a dead one in the background and as a whole it gets lost in the rest of the picture so it didn't turn out to be a very good picture of the flower that I wanted to see, but it did turn out to be a good picture of the hillside.
Here I wanted to show what the view was like while walking down the path to the beach. Unfortunately you can't relly tell how far up I really was, some other pictures do but this was still a nice pic.
This is a pretty good picture of what the shoreline looks like. Closer to Malibu there's no cliffs, so that's why this beach is more secluded and private feeling.
This is a view from the top of the cliff looking in the other direction. In the background you can see land jutting out. That's Point Dume State Beach which is apart of the same State Beach system as El Matador. On the other side is Malibu.
Here's a patch of wild flowers that were growing along the patch towards the cliff.
Here's another view of the water from the cliff's edge.
There were these odd looking stumps with flowers growing on them. It looked like they were dead tree stumps that then had this moss type stuff growing on them with yellow flowers, but they were so common and always about the same size that it seemed that the stalks weren't actually dead trees on which the flowers grew, but actually apart of the flower itself. The first pic is of the hill side were you can see a lot of these growths, and the second is a close up detail of one of the flower growthes.
Here's another view of the shoreline.
This is another view of that same boulder, but this time it was taken from the top of the cliff looking down on it.
Since moving to Los Angeles from Maryland the weather had been overcast and cool seven days a week and I started to think I had made a wrong turn and settled down in my childhood home of Endicott, NY which seemed to had three sunny days a year on average. It's definately not been the sunny southern California experience that I had been imagining, atleast until last weekend which was a rainy one. It must have pulled all the moisture out of the atmosphere, because it's been sunny every since, except for some morning clouds that burn off by the afternoon. Apparently this is called the Marine Layer with the link expaining that.
Anyways, it was beautiful weather, so after a late lunch at the Farmer's Market we headed to the beach. The following are pictures I took while there. I'll have to go back because we drove through some really beautiful valleys on the way through the Santa Monica Mountains.
Click the images for larger views
The beach runs along the bottom of a steep cliff face and on the beach are these huge boulders on which all sorts of stuff is growing. While we were there a guy climbed on top of one of them (not the one pictured).
There's all sorts of various wild flowers growing on the cliff face, I tried to get a picture of this neat looking flower that's really tall and thin. Unfortunately there's a dead one in the background and as a whole it gets lost in the rest of the picture so it didn't turn out to be a very good picture of the flower that I wanted to see, but it did turn out to be a good picture of the hillside.
Here I wanted to show what the view was like while walking down the path to the beach. Unfortunately you can't relly tell how far up I really was, some other pictures do but this was still a nice pic.
This is a pretty good picture of what the shoreline looks like. Closer to Malibu there's no cliffs, so that's why this beach is more secluded and private feeling.
This is a view from the top of the cliff looking in the other direction. In the background you can see land jutting out. That's Point Dume State Beach which is apart of the same State Beach system as El Matador. On the other side is Malibu.
Here's a patch of wild flowers that were growing along the patch towards the cliff.
Here's another view of the water from the cliff's edge.
There were these odd looking stumps with flowers growing on them. It looked like they were dead tree stumps that then had this moss type stuff growing on them with yellow flowers, but they were so common and always about the same size that it seemed that the stalks weren't actually dead trees on which the flowers grew, but actually apart of the flower itself. The first pic is of the hill side were you can see a lot of these growths, and the second is a close up detail of one of the flower growthes.
Here's another view of the shoreline.
This is another view of that same boulder, but this time it was taken from the top of the cliff looking down on it.
