We just spent four days camping along the coast. After having spent a week at Laguna Beach, we camped two nights at Pt Mugu State Park just north of Malibu and then two nights at Morro Strand State Beach further up the coast.
The campground at Pt Mugu was just beautiful, nestled in a sycamore grove at the base of a canyon and just across the road from the beach. It was just a couple of miles from the beach where all of the Gidget movies were filmed. At Pt. Mugu, the girls became friendly with two very nice little boys in the next campsite (Wyatt and Kevin), photos above. One of the best parts of roadtrips are the friends you make along the way.
After Pt Mugu, we headed north to Morro Bay, where we camped two nights at a campground on the beach. That campground was a little like camping in a parking lot- but, on the plus side, it was on the beach.
While heading up the coast, we made a side trip to Solvang. Solvang strives to be a "little Denmark". We added it to our running list of towns that wished they were in Europe. See photo above of the girls with the ornamental windmill in the background. A prominent citizen in this area (Los Olivos) is Fess Parker: you know, Davieee, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. He owns a resort and vineyard here. I guess he is sort of like what Clint Eastwood is to Carmel.
After leaving Morro Bay, we drove along the Pacific Coast Highway through Big Sur, along the Monterey Peninsula up to San Francisco. We're a bit behind schedule, so sadly couldn't linger. We figured that area- Big Sur & Monterey- deserves to be done right, so we put off touring it until another trip, rather than just rush from place to place.
The weather here is really interesting. All the way up to San Francisco the temperature on the coast was between 60 and mid-70s during the day. Just a few miles inland- 5 or 10 miles, temperatures were 20 to 30 degrees higher.
We have really, really enjoyed the time we've spent on the California Coast. This is absolutely an area we would come back to.
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