Spring Break 2007 is over - and boy was it amazing!! We fixed up the "study", aka our 2nd bedroom, we saw tons of the boy's friends at various events/hangouts, we had down time to just chat and play video games (ahem), we managed to do the "all you can drink" champagne brunch at Overland Cafe (woo hoo!) AND we went camping.
So, until this point I've wavered from fine to ambivalent on the issue of camping. I always have a good time but I'm not a camper by nature. Well, this trip has changed everything. We went to Catalina Island, hiked 7 miles in from Two Harbors to Parson's Landing and had the smooth-stoned and yellow-sand beach, and the beautiful, blue and emerald-ocean ALL to ourselves (one night there was another guy way down the beach and the second day, the seal visited us).
Basically it was 48 hrs of total solitude. Absolutely fabulous and hence the title of this post. I felt like we were the first and only couple on the land and it was magical. We hiked around in peace, we bathed in the ocean, we slept under the moon and the big dipper and we woke to the waves and lovely sunshine.
And then there was the seal...he basically made his way on the beach towards us, aiming to pretty much sit where we were sitting. I was convinced he was a Japanese ghost spirit - a man caught in the body of a seal, looking to speak to us with a message on how to release him…but no…he was just a curious, sunbathing-serious seal...cute but eccentric.
I can't really do justice to the trip or the cleansing effect it had on us, so here are some photos – ENJOY:
So, until this point I've wavered from fine to ambivalent on the issue of camping. I always have a good time but I'm not a camper by nature. Well, this trip has changed everything. We went to Catalina Island, hiked 7 miles in from Two Harbors to Parson's Landing and had the smooth-stoned and yellow-sand beach, and the beautiful, blue and emerald-ocean ALL to ourselves (one night there was another guy way down the beach and the second day, the seal visited us).
Basically it was 48 hrs of total solitude. Absolutely fabulous and hence the title of this post. I felt like we were the first and only couple on the land and it was magical. We hiked around in peace, we bathed in the ocean, we slept under the moon and the big dipper and we woke to the waves and lovely sunshine.
And then there was the seal...he basically made his way on the beach towards us, aiming to pretty much sit where we were sitting. I was convinced he was a Japanese ghost spirit - a man caught in the body of a seal, looking to speak to us with a message on how to release him…but no…he was just a curious, sunbathing-serious seal...cute but eccentric.
I can't really do justice to the trip or the cleansing effect it had on us, so here are some photos – ENJOY:
The beach - Parson's Landing
We frolicked in the ocean - cold and bracing but oh, so lovely!
Our campsite!
Mr. Seal
