Santa Monica and Venice Beaches

It was such a beautiful clear day today, I decided to drive down to Santa Monica beach and try the bike path there. Click on any of the photos to see them bigger.

I started out at the Pier, where the amusement park is:



I then headed north first. Here is a wide view of the beach, click it to see it bigger:



I think this one gives an idea of just how wide (deep?) the beach is- look how far those walkers are from both water and the buildings at the edge of the beach:



These apartments overlook the beach:


So do these, I wonder how stable the geology here is in an earthquake? Might not want to park there in that case either:



Beach houses, and my little bike, that gets into more photos than I do (circumstantial evidence that I'm here!):



Two views from near the northern end of the path:




I liked this little short palm tree. Is it a midget, or just a young 'un? I'm not very well schooled on the life cycle of the palm:



I then turned around and headed back past the pier, south, to Venice beach. Here's what the path looks like down there, it's still along the beach:



These buildings are along Ocean Front Walk on Venice beach:



There's a skateboard park, and these guys move fast so it was a very lucky shutter click that caught this skateboarder: