Avila Beach is the most awesome place along the California coast, set inside a small bay that is protected from the elements of the sea. We arrived here yesterday about 2, right after the skies dropped a huge load of wet stuff! The sky turned blue and it has been beautiful since. I even put on shorts today!
Avila Beach
The view from our windows is amazing and there is such an abundance of wildlife here to enjoy. I watch the sea lions fish along with sea gulls. I watched hummingbirds sucking from the new flowers along the shore today. Duke loves the beach and all its new smells!
Yesterday we took a walk on the beach and I spotted 3 vultures guarding a carcass. I steered Duke in the other direction however I forgot about the carcass on the walk back! Duke ran ahead of me and had at least 2 minutes of rolling himself in the sand surrounding the carcass before I could reach him and stop him!!! Gross! We had to bath him in our shower. The bad news is we are dry camping which means we cannot get more water or dump the water we have until we move. This just means Paul will be short a shower while we are here!!!
Sleeping here is very peaceful; all you hear is the waves crashing. However, we may sleep a little too soundly! Paul opened the compartments today to put the supplies we picked up in town away and was staring into the eyes of a very large raccoon!!! He yelled, I grabbed my camera but he disturbed it before I could get a shot. The raccoon ran out of the compartment and headed across the street; Paul started to put his stick away and here comes another one! Yeks! We are pretty sure they got in overnight because this am he locked the compartments before we left for town and we are pretty sure we didn’t bring them from our last stop because when the exited they headed right across the road and into a hole. Duke isn’t much of a guard dog! he didn’t even move from the car when they went running out.
A boat?
This is in the harbor right in front of our RV. We have been looking at it for 2 days and still not sure what it is! I guess it is a pontoon boat!