Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Here are two of the beaches I'm considering for BMEfest. There are so many choices down here. The first picture is the view from one end of the parking lot (the “parking lot” is about three miles long… it's a big beach) — you can see the water and one of the little bars that dots the beach. The second picture is the view from the patio of a restaurant I like to eat at. It's high tide so the beach is up to the level where it pushes the rocks and shells (it's a sand beach).

The third picture is at a beach that's about a two minute drive (so a twenty minute walk or something) down the road, which has a very different character — totally shallow and sheltered (with tons of balloonfish), but I think it might be much more crowded in the summer so it may not be the right choice, although as I said, there's a lot of choices and they're all not that far apart.

The panorama above is from when I hiked (can you really call it a “hike” when it takes about five minutes max?) up to the top of the mountain that overlooks the beach in the third photo above. That's a picture at relatively low tide. The camera messed up so I don't have the other pictures properly, but if I were to turn to the right, I'd see a second similar but much larger beach in front of me.

Up at the top of that mountain (and all over both beaches) are BBQ pits as well.