I've never been a beach person - nor much of a water person for that matter - there are only lakes and rivers in the land-locked Prairies scoured out of the ground by the glacial action of the last ice age and the meltwaters of the Rocky Mountains .

But, I think I could be...

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2013.03.16	South to Other Beaches, or So We Intended
Comment	We intended to drive down to Long Beach and Huntington Beach but didn't want to take the freeway since it's often a parking-lot in traffic and that's no fun even in a convertible. We didn't make it there because of our late start and street traffic along the way but we toodled along various parts of the coast on the way and saw some other places. The PCH along this area is interrupted by Marina Del Ray and lined with industrial users like LAX refining, before turning into high-priced hillside real estate and finally the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.         There used to be a beach-side neighbourhood where planes from LAX now head over the ocean. Though the structures are all gone the roadway system remains, like this ghost street that once entered off Dockweiler State Beach.       Dockweiler State Beach     Passing through     Manhattan Beach     which we've     visited before             USE EXTREME CAUTION Constant Land Movement Next 0.8 Miles       We didn't feel     anything but a     lumpy road It was getting cool so we ended this trip at San Pedro, home of the Port of Los Angeles .             The southern beaches will have to wait for another day.