Thousand Stairs Beach

Posted on February 16, 2005 in Travels - So Cal Weather

In a swing by the ocean, I stopped by Thousand Stairs Beach. Two women trucked up and down the uneven concrete steps, each well-muscled in the thighs and the triceps. For my one pass up and down the stairs (I believe there to be only five hundred, but I guess you count them going down and going up again), these made two.

Earlier this week, all the forecasts said the pressure would be on Prado Dam again today. But there’s a huge hole in the clouds over the Pacific and it is headed our way.

Down on the beach, I could make out ceruleans, navies, aquamarines, and sapphires among the ermine-trimmed waves. I stayed for only ten minutes, watching workmen construct a new wing on one of the beach houses breathing down the neck of bathers. One fellow either steadied himself on the steep slope or stood atop a ladder. His friend handed him whatever he needed from the deck.

We may have snow on Friday.