From the hills between Santa Barbara and Santa Inez, the day’s/year’s end sunset, reflected in trusty Tripp’s wing.
0701 Sunset Wing
GrandGirl turned one year just days ago and is about to experience her 1st Santa.
Grandpa drums her a tune…and is enchanted with their bright connection, reflected in her eyes.
1647 G'Daughter & G'pa with Great Aunt
~by Anne
Unlike my early life, happiness is all around now. Inside and out. Filling me up. Lots of things get me giggling, smiling, and laughing out loud. There are also many things that evoke in me the sort of happiness that simply glows in radiant beams of inner joy. Time with friends and family. Deep conversation, playful moments, and just Being with Anne. Flying of course, as when we flew past L.A. on a recent moderately smoggy and overcast day.
1455 L.A.
…and out the other window is the view of L.A. perhaps more familiar to most people.
8430 Hollywood
I deeply enjoy time with children, and there’s a new special child in my life now of course. Her good nature and frequent squeals of delight just thrill my heart, and she often reminds me of another baby girl who is now her mother.
1678 Grandpa Is Happy
Surfing the air offshore along SoCA beaches is popular with birds, hang gliders, and a few aviators like us. In sunset light, the sandstone bluffs are even more colorful as the mood of beachcombers shifts toward evening.
8322 Beach Bluff
Nearby the neighbors seem to have pooled their resources, investing their individual resources in a surfside pool rather than share a collective one.
8232 Tide Pools
I wonder if some of them are low enough to be reached by waves, but maybe they all use sea water pumped up from offshore. Other neighbors have their own large grotto, at least for now.
8230 Hollow Lawn
Flying is heavenly even in the city of the Angels, L.A. Approaching San Pedro we got a view of Angel’s Gate. That’s the park just left of the point at the mouth of the harbor.
8089 SW San Pedro
Recognize this next attraction from a movie? The “Angel” link above takes you to the San Pedro website with info on the park and many other nearby attractions.
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A short walk South of there is the 1874 Point Fermin Lighthouse, still a beacon but now for tourists and local events. Beyond the Vincent Thomas Bridge to Long Beach, a look at what we were breathing and above that the snow-capped peaks giving a reminder of what people might have seen from atop the light back in 1874.
8113 Smog Sandwich
Looking at pix from our flight along Palos Verdes revealed a confusion of caves. Because the coast there was so interesting, we circled back for another look at the Pt. Vicente light and in the process got multiple views of the sea caves just past it toward San Pedro. For some sound geological reason the sea caves are on small points of rock that jut out into the sea like this.
8079 Two Caves?
If these two caves joined in the middle, would it be one cave? How many people paddle kayaks into them on calm days? After this closer look at the cave on the right above, would you be concerned about falling rocks?
8081 Right Cave
You can see even more loose stones in this closer view of the cave on the left.
8082 Left Cave
But another pic taken later created cave confusion. The top pic shows two caves, right? Well have a look at this.
8085 Two Caves?
Same spot, but from this different angle you can clearly see another small cave! It was only by looking more carefully at details like the paths and vegetation on top that I realized this spit of rock harbors at least three caves. This angle also better shows the tide pools on the rock shelf. I guess the only reason there weren’t crowds of people exploring this whole scene is that access is much more difficult than the well-worn paths on top. A little further along is a smaller spit that really does have two caves at the end.
8083 Two Caves and...
This area is now certainly on our list of places to visit from the ground! But just to attempt more confusion in the meantime, a different angle revealed two caves and a dimple.
8084 Two Caves & Dimple
John & Anne Wiley 
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