O'Neill Park and Santa Barbara - June 25

Woke up early to a woman yelling and banging on tents to annoy wake a group of campers who had evidently kept her awake too late with their noise. Charming. And then there was this sign in the women's bathroom 😲

But since we were up early we decided to go for a hike on the park trails while it was cool (actually it was chilly), although this sign was a little disconcerting.

But we decided to go on anyway. As you can see, the city has encroached on the wilderness and reduced the habitat of the lions.

Pretty sure this was a lion paw print!

But the views, the trees, and the flowers were pretty,

although these were oddly placed.

We headed up the coast after our hike, enjoying seeing familiar sights from our life here decades ago, like Cook's Corner from Matthew's childhood.

The views from PCH

And a favorite Corona del Mar date night spot of ours from 33 years ago.

We arrived in Santa Barbara with some time to kill before our friend, Sara Sauter, was available so we walked along the beach and down the pier.

And watched a fire department rescue of a drone up in the palms!

Matthew was surprised to see a childhood favorite was still around. Seems the name was a combination of parts of the two original owners names but people thought it was from the book Little Black Sambo so they capitalized on that. We thought it was a very weird anachronism, especially for a progressive place like southern California.

We met up with Sara at a bar and had a wonderful time catching up before heading over to her place to see Ron and chat more. We gratefully took her up on her offer of the driveway to park the camper for the night.