A sunny, busy day in mid-January
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| So, here we are back at Gaviota and this is the sunset our first night back. | And a couple of days later we had a nice sunrise | |
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| And another nice sunset | A family watching the sunset | Cell phone shot of another January sunrise |
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| The 17th of January and we had some families enjoying the beach. | Late January | A mixture of sun and fog in late January |
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| A cool day and no fishermen to scare of Los Gaviotas. (Gaviota=gull). All the white stuff on the pier shows how long it has been since California had a good rain. | Early February and you can see the sun is swinging north as it sets closer to the coast. | While taking the dogs for their morning walk I saw this. Only had my cell phone but it is better than nothing. |
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| On a clear day you can see the Channel Islands well. This is Santa Rosa. I liked the way the fog was blowing off of it. | Another sunrise | But this one had red-ish skies to the west. No storm followed. |
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| Late February and we are about to lose our sunsets into the sea. | A family enjoying the last light from the previous sunset. | At the end of February there was a big storm coming so we left the park and went down to Pt Mugu where we saw this. |
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| When we returned to Gaviota in early March we found the storm had sent our sand elsewhere. | Worse, the storm had taken the last 50 feet or so off of the pier and damaged the rest of it You can watch the end break off here. | The high seas threw a bunch of stuff into the parking lot. Here is a pile of it that the cleanup crew has collected. |
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| Two weeks later an a little bit of sand has returned. | In spite of the broken pier and the rough beach we had the Sea Otter survey team back. Here they are bringing one ashore to be examined. | Getting ready to give the Otter a shot of sleep stuff |
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| Almost the end of March and we have some more sand. | The gate at the end of the pier. No more boat launches and no more fishing. | One of the things we really enjoy doing on our days off is riding our tandem bike down the coast. The fine print says "mid-point today's ride". |
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| Cruising down the road | Beautiful ocean views and the railroad track. Some days we get to wave to passengers on the Amtrak. | This one says, "where we started our ride". |