We were more than happy to join friends Lisa, Steve, Samuel and baby Shira at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz today. Multiple beach trips in one week? Yep, these are California kids.
Peter, Samuel, and Lucy enjoyed making and destroying sand castles, pushing around Samuel's little wagon, and venturing to the water's edge.
And, once our friends left, we took the opportunity to explore the beach a bit more. On the north edge of the beach are a series of rocks which jut out and host tide pools. We weren't able to make it to the interesting tide pools (since we'd started walking without shoes, over pointy rocks, and someone was determined to master walking in the most dangerous place, ever), but we did come to a rock which hosted mussels, limpets, and other sea snails.
On our way back to our beach camp, Peter realized the crumbling sandstone provided more than enough ammunition to launch into the lagoon underneath us.
Oh, yes. We also dug holes.
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