BEACH BUMS

Hi! It's me, back again with a great post about our camping trip to Sunset Beach. Yeah, the sunsets are absolutely divine! And what's more, when you enjoy them with friends, then they're even more great!
Let me tell you, put this place on your bucket list of places to go! Ahh, a mesmerizing white-sand beach, plenty of sand dollars, sea shells, and mini-shells, roaring green waves, and you can even see Monterey Bay from the beach. (pic 1#) BUT WARNING! If you are allergic to anything green, growing, pollen-giving, then you should not leave your house without some eye drops and allergy pills.
But looking on the bright side, I played most of the time with my little friend, who is turning 4 soon. She is so adorable and this is a picture of me and her below the one of the ocean. Her cousin and us played at the beach for a whole day, and I even think I wrenched a muscle attempting to dig a giant hole! I also built over 15 sandcastles out of molds, and wow, was I tired that night. In our village of 15 sandcastles, I put a flag made of a stick and a Goldfish wrapper. Ha!
I hardly ever saw my brother and his best bud because they were off and away catching butterflies, examining dead raccoons and playing wolves at the beach. 😜 This is a picture of them below. And yes, we did discover a dead raccoon that's guts were spilling out of its furry skin, and it probably had been ripped open by a coyote or something, so said the ranger that we notified about this. He went off to get a bag and a shovel, and me and my brother and his friend stared and stared and poked its disgusting liver with a stick. Gugh!!! Then we waited, and the ranger didn't come back. We saw his little Sunset Beach golf cart toodle along on the road in front of us, but then he stopped in front of the bathrooms and got out. After about ten minutes, we walked over to see what was the matter. Well, the ranger had though the dead raccoon was over by the bathrooms, not the hidden grove where its grave was. So then he said " Hey kid, where's that dead raccoon?" It ended up that he got lost and and we had to lead him over to the dead raccoon! And then we were discussing what might have killed it, and the ranger was like: " What if a grizzly bear killed it?" And I said: " That's impossible, grizzlies are extinct in California!"
" Oh, we've got a smart one here!"
It was pretty weird, believe me. But when we left the campground, we visited some awesome tide pools where we found a massive sculpin and a bunch of starfish, and even a decorator crab! Then we went to Marianne's, another go-to for ice cream, and I got a flavor called Chocolate Chocolate Chip.😛It really was quite delicious. Then, we  d r o v e  h o m e. It was a l o n g ride.

But we made it home, tired and happy, and we will DEFINITELY be back again.