July 20 -Laguna Beach - Malibu

 In the morning, we checked out and walked down the street to have breakfast at the Omelette Inn. Portion sizes were good, and Shay loved his omelette. We ventured over to the Queen Mary, then headed down the coast to Newport and Laguna Beaches.

Laguna was beautiful. The houses were all built on top of one another in the hills, each over looking the one below. Very crowded. Everyone's house is unique, and the streets are so narrow, especially when most people drive Escalades and H2's.

We found that the weather would be overcast in the morning as the fog from the coast rolled in, but by 2pm it was sunny and nice again on the coast. If you drove further inland it was sunny all day.

You can see the blue sky creeping in from the top corner. This was a beautiful beach in Laguna. We parked on the street, but there was a lot I think? We stayed for a few hours, then made our trek to Malibu. Word of advice. Driving north through Los Angeles in between 4 and 7 is a very bad idea.

We sat in this for awhile, then got fed up and got off to find the 1. The 1 was still busy, but at least we were right on the coast and had beautiful views of Santa Monica and Malibu. We didn't have time to stop at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, but we drove by it and it looked nice. Malibu was very unique too. The houses were still built up on cliff sides and over looked the ocean, but they seemed to be further apart from one another.


We arrived at our pre-booked campsite in Point Mugu State Park, Thornhill site in Malibu around 8:45 as the sun was setting.

If you want to do beach camping along the coast during the summer months you must book your southern california locations online a few months in advance. I waited a little too long and didn't get all of my first choices. However, after staying the one night on the beach in Malibu, we were happy we didn't have several booked in a row, as it was very misty and wet at night, so by morning (when we had to pack up our tent) it was very wet.

Point Mugu was nice. It was essentially a strip of road on the side of a beach. All of the sites are beside each other, with no privacy. There is a fire pit with a grill. We made our own fire ring down by the ocean before reading the "no ground fires" sign. This site was great for us, as it was easy to get to (right off the 1), and everyone was in their RV's by 930, so we had the beach to ourselves. The sky cleared at night and we saw so many stars. Very pretty. The mountains and sand dunes were piled high behind us as well.