So we have always heard such wonderful things about the beaches that are south of Huntington Beach so we decided one day to make it a big beach day and drive south on PCH until we hit Laguna Beach. The drive was absolutely beautiful, and about 45 minutes later we arrived at Laguna Beach, paid for parking, and set up our towels. The waves were HUGE and crashing super close to shore so we couldn't boogey board or anything like that. So we were just kinda standing in the water when the lifeguard came over and told us that we couldn't be in the water because we were too far away from the lifeguard stand. So we got out and went to lay on our towels and read. Richard was reading and I was just laying down resting. Richard made a comment about how one wave came within like 15 feet of us (note: we were not even close to the water! It was a steep beach and we were at least 10 feet behind the dropoff) and I thought that was pretty crazy. Then about 2 minutes later, I hear..."Oh crap!" I was resting so I just said "What?" as I looked up to see a huge wave coming to get us! It completely soaked us and because I didn't have time to react this is what happened to my book...and yes...it belongs to the library...well I guess not anymore...it grew about 4 inches in width.
So after that wave completely overtook us we decided to move and we were gonna go closer to the lifeguard stand so that we could swim, but as we were walking over there the lifeguard came up to some other people and told them they couldn't be in the water so we decided to call it a day and go home. Needless to say...I think we will stick with Huntington Beach from now on.
