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Huntington Dog Beach Again!
Here's the flickr set
A teacher friend of mine wanted to give her dogs one last big dog-day before school started. She'd heard of R0ndo and Apache's romp at the beach-- so we took Monday off and travelled on down.
The surf was MUCH rougher today than the last time (almost flat) and Apache DID NOT LIKE! She spent the entire beach-time hiding under a rock. Literally.
The other dogs had their usual spaz-time.
In order to console Apache, we checked out the Huntington Beach Dog Park. Very nice-- lots of bark (haha) ground cover and shade. Apache was MUCH happier and became her usual happy self.
We also ate at two dog-friendly cafes: "Alice's Breakfast at the Park" (fantastic cinnamon rolls!) and "The Lazy Dog Cafe". The latter is a dog-themed (decoration-wise) restaurant in the style of a BJ's Brewery. The upside: you can have your dogs with you on the patio. Every table there had at least one dog (we had four). They have dog-eats as well.
Huntington Beach is easily the most dog-friendly city I've ever been to (besides Vancouver). Technically they have the same laws as Los Angeles-- but they interpret them differently. Very differently: in L.A. you can't even have a dog on a restaurant patio and never off-leash (the beach stipulates dogs must be "under the owner's control"). Plus, fantastic weather and a beautiful neighborhood. Love it.
A teacher friend of mine wanted to give her dogs one last big dog-day before school started. She'd heard of R0ndo and Apache's romp at the beach-- so we took Monday off and travelled on down.
The surf was MUCH rougher today than the last time (almost flat) and Apache DID NOT LIKE! She spent the entire beach-time hiding under a rock. Literally.
The other dogs had their usual spaz-time.
In order to console Apache, we checked out the Huntington Beach Dog Park. Very nice-- lots of bark (haha) ground cover and shade. Apache was MUCH happier and became her usual happy self.
We also ate at two dog-friendly cafes: "Alice's Breakfast at the Park" (fantastic cinnamon rolls!) and "The Lazy Dog Cafe". The latter is a dog-themed (decoration-wise) restaurant in the style of a BJ's Brewery. The upside: you can have your dogs with you on the patio. Every table there had at least one dog (we had four). They have dog-eats as well.
Huntington Beach is easily the most dog-friendly city I've ever been to (besides Vancouver). Technically they have the same laws as Los Angeles-- but they interpret them differently. Very differently: in L.A. you can't even have a dog on a restaurant patio and never off-leash (the beach stipulates dogs must be "under the owner's control"). Plus, fantastic weather and a beautiful neighborhood. Love it.
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Hmm- what's the fire/haze situation at Huntington Beach? Is it bad there, too, or do the ocean winds help blow it away- or is it far from the current fire and not affected anyway?
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If there were Santa Anna winds blowing, just the opposite: hot, dry winds that would be wreaking havoc on the fires and coating the beaches with ash.
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Santa Anna winds aren't so bad. They can result in high temps and dry days, but they come and go. It's kind of neat to have them in the middle of winter, when we get short-sleeve weather for a week or so.
You could move to one of the beach cities: they get a lot of gloom year-round, but they tend to have low air pollution issues and not much in the way of smoke.
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-J
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