Camping on a California beach
Carpinteria State Beach south of Santa Barbara was my introduction to camping on a beach, said Amy Hubbard in the Los Angeles Times. “It was all slightly surreal,” yet magical, too. In the morning, “you can open your tent flap and see the waves lapping the sand.” On our first night, my family and I squeezed into two small tents, though we were mostly surrounded by RVs. We “roasted the obligatory marshmallows,” then drew straws to see who got to sleep closest to the railroad tracks. “Yes, the train tracks”—just 50 yards from our tent. The quaint nearby village of Carpinteria is filled with antiques and inviting restaurants. Other attractions include the Gallup & Stribling Orchid Farm, the largest such operation in the U.S., and the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, where the wings of monarch butterflies fluttering in the sun “look like chips of stained glass.”
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