where's the abalone ?

First day of the weekend trip wasn't as good as we expect. Alot of place was under private property, or its just to far to travel. Even with a car. And there are signs like, beware of rattle snakes.. but it didnt stop us :) but the beware of tick signs stopped us.."wear light or white color shirts enable you to see them and wipe them off" Sounds scary. so we didnt not want to risk it. Did some research and found this, some information that is good to know.

Beware of Ticks & Lyme Disease

Went down to San Diego, nothing much interest us, walked around for about 2 hours around the Broadway area and visited the San Diego Convention Center, and the bay behind it. Nothing much either. Head back to the car, and wanted to visit a lake we though near by. about 160miles away, that's like 300km,It's like driving from Singapore to Kuantan. Decided to go there in other weekends. So i recall seeing some ruined church in San Juan, wihch is on our way home. So we headed there, hoping that we'll able to take some nice sunset photos. But it was closed an hour before we reached there. Wonder around there till dinner. Had a good chat with friends, and head home. It's a no luck day.

2nd day, heading to another beach that we thought that is the normal beach. ok, see what this beach is like. But we were so wrong:) not expecting for such a nice trip. Drove up hill, along the cliff where you're at the heights of the clouds, and sea view + cold wind. That is awesome! couldn't resist to stop even says no stopping at all times, but it looks safe. Get down and grab few shots. And continue to head down to the beach. There's where the sign "beware of rattle snakes" are. Along the path, i've spotted small phyton snakes, well not to disturb them and they wont come disturb you. The beach is those we wanted all awhile, less people and nice scenery ! :) its less sandy, but with lots and lots of pebbles and rocks, we found our spot and set our tripod and waited for the sunset. It was the most exciting trip ever, where you'll feel like, you wanted to stay longer for more shots! we stayed till dark, very dark, there's no lamp pose at all. decided to leave when the waves starting to splash on us. I set my camera behind this big rock because i thought that the camera will be safe from the strong waves, but i was wrong, the wave hit the huge rock, goes up like 2 storey high, wham down and splash* im wet. The sun sets slow. anyway we leave before the water raise higher + its a full moon that day. talking about full moon, when we climb up to the top, we saw the moon, full. and lighted the whole area. that was pretty. Will definetely be going there again.