Adventure 187: Crystal Cove State Park/Post C

Frac somewhere under the rainbow.

The good news is that this particular cribbage battle is all tied up with but one to play. We play for all of the crystal coves tomorrow morning. Today it was mostly overcast, but a very warm seventy-two. Our adventure took us down to the tide pools at low tide. I scampered around looking for urchins while Stumpy sat on a rock looking at the sea. We both had it pretty good, but she thought better of slip sliding around on the freshly exposed sea goop. After we'd enjoyed as much of that as we could stand, we climbed back up the hill trail to the parking lot where we unmounted the tandem. The trail along the bluff runs about ten miles or so back into Corona Del Mar. We rode 2.1 miles, which Stumpy handled quite nicely, although she is rubbing her stump as we speak. For lunch, we stopped at an exquisite California burger stand called Ruby's Shake Shack, which is a garishly yellow clapboard structure perched on the bluff right above the historic beach houses in Crystal Cove. We were lucky to find a parking spot in this little juke joint. The place was jumping! In fact, when we left there was a line of cars waiting to get in. They had just marshaled up in the turn lane off of the East Coast Highway. Now that's a following! We each had a regular beef burger, which comes with home cut skinny fries. Judy had a diet coke. I enjoyed (Immensely) a fresh banana shake. The buns are fresh baked sweet dough. the patty was a quarter pound of beef (Hand formed), and there was some tasty special sauce much like the old Dairy Queen stuff. The burger was neatly wrapped in a wax paper liner so the juices wouldn't flow out. We ordered at the window, and a cute little red headed teen girl brought the burgers to our place along the wooden bar facing the ocean. The whole presentation and preparation hand a strong similarity to burgers served by In and Out, which for those of you who don't know is a FABULOUS burger chain which started near here in Pasadena and now has hundreds of outlets in southern California. While similar, Ruby's burger didn't disappoint in any way. The bill was $24.50 (Gotta love the high rent district). After lunch, Judy rested and I walked the beach (Had to try and burn off the shake). Finally, this evening we enjoyed the spectacular sunset, which we thought quite a gift since this is our last night here. Tomorrow, we head for San Diego for the weekend. We are really looking forward to it because it means we get to spend the weekend with our good friends, the Cramer's who used to live in Spokane. We have traveled with them, cooked with them, played tennis with them, and Jim and I even used to practice tennis before work at 6 A.M. one day a week back in the day. After our normal thin gruel (Oatmeal), we plan to sashay down the coast highway as long as we can before merging with Interstate five. Again, we pray for traveling mercies, and once again gratefully proclaim that life is good, especially today.


 Low tide at Pelican Point.

 Though you can't tell from the photo, this pretty shell is under water.

 Must be why they call it pelican point. They were all over the place.

 There's Stumpy, sitting on a rock just like a pelican.

 We saw this google guy mapping. 

Hot rod of the day (1965 VW Bug).

 My stoker has lost some weight.

 Ruby.

 California burger, much copied, but few live up to this standard.

 Wave shot of the day.

 Navy flying copter/airplane. It looks like an Area 51 contraption.

 Sunset selfie.

 So good, I had to post it twice.

De Ja View.