Laguna Beach

A picture of Main Beach from Heisler Park

Laguna Beach is a beautiful seaside town with a thriving art community. It is known for the summer show it puts on every year called The Pageant of the Masters (more about that in two weeks). The little town is filled with art galleries, boutiques and restaurants. It is the home of my oldest daughter and her husband. Laguna is made up of many coves with amazing rock formations and tide pools.

Diver's Cove

The last day of July was starting out overcast and hot. HH had neck surgery for some blown out discs two weeks ago and was going stir crazy in the house, so we headed down to Laguna for a walk. By the time we arrived at the beach, 20 minutes later, the sun had arrived and the cloud cover turned into beautiful blue sky. We found a great parking space right in front of Diver's Cove and began our walk. Diver's is the beach that we took our kids to as children. Out on the rocks, there is a "blow hole" where the water rushes into a crevice in the rocks and splashes up 20 feet high. HH has been known to swan dive into said crevice when the tide is high.

On the edge of Diver's at the top of the hill, is a beautiful picnic area called Heisler's Park. Green grass, park benches, bbq areas with picnic tables (you must arrive really early to snag one of the choice picnic table areas) a picturesque path with stairs leading to the beach coves, lawn bowling club, mini ampitheater, bathrooms, and art sculptures. Today it was not crowded.

This is looking left (the other way beyond Diver's), these coves are in the midst of neighborhoods.

Laguna flys the flag proudly with a little help from a good breeze.

Amazing trees and cactus are planted throughout.

There is no plaque on this sculpture, but to me, it reminded me of Dr. Seuss-Horton Hears A Who!

The kelp beds are thriving! They haven't been this rich and thick since El Nino destroyed them 10-15 years ago. HH is very excited to snorkel out there and take a look.

We came across this new area in the park. They have built a little ampitheater and added this beautiful Breaching Whale sculpture. I love it!

We arrived at Main Beach. Love this old Life Guard Stand from the 20's.

Laguna provides these great trolleys to take you all through the town and Heisler's Park. I believe they are free.

Here is a paparazzi shot of my daughters little place from Main Beach. She has a beautiful view of Main Beach, the ocean and Laguna's coast line. Lucky!