We had lost all of our photos from today's events, we have to rely on links and public photos to show this dog beach and the town of Newport Beach.
Dubbed as That "other" dog beach, it's a secluded dog beach off of Pacific Coast Highway, after the Huntington Beach welcome sign, and it's between HB and Newport Beach. It's a great strip of sand with water flowing under the bridge. The parking location is right past the bridge when you're heading south towards NB, you make a right, and parking spot's just under the bridge. Follow the pooches and their owners along the fence wall, and you will see the dogs romp around in blissfull water, sand, and little pockets of water areas for the timid canines.
B brought the frisbee along, and one strong throw, Tico was too smart to swim towards the deep, fast water streaming towards the bridge, so we watched as the white plastic disc floats about towards the bay inland.
We ended up finding a large shore-washed bark about two feet long, and 1 inch wide to throw around for Tico to chase in the water, and we had a ball. There were a lot of happy dogs swimming about on this beach, one which chased after a toy, got caught in the stream, and decided to swim towards the other side of the water. She then relaxed, and decided to swim across from upstream towards the bay, and away from the ocean. Very smart dog. The owner was very relieved and proud, to say the least.
There are tons of webcams all over the Newport Beach area for those visitors and surfers alike to get a feel for the weather in the area. We first did some walking (for me) and running (for B and Tico), starting from about a few hundred feet from the first pier to almost to the second pier. I would say it's about 4 miles. We passed the 21 Oceanfront restaurant in front of the Newport Pier. Their happy hour sounds really good (4-630pm, including Sundays), so it's on a to-do list for us.
visitnewportbeach.com has tons of suggestions for the town of Newport Beach. Bryan used to surf at "The Wedge", there's beaches galore - one is the Newport Municipal Beach on Oceanfront and 21st Street, Balboa Peninsula, there's Fashion Island for shopping, the Balboa island offers a quaint little area for shopping and dining, and we got to cross with our car the last time about two years ago via the ferry. That was cool. It cost $2 for car and driver, and they are located on 410 South Bay Front, but we did the Palm and Balboa Blvd side. The shops and restaurants on Balboa island are really cool, one I really liked was CandlEssence on 319A Marine Ave.
I wish we still have those pictures, because Newport Beach was a major trip for us Angelenos now. We hardly even used to come here when we were OC'ers as it is. After the run and the dog beach, we decided to share a burger at TK Burger in HB, which is on 110 PCH. B used to come here for a simple goodness burger after a nice surf session in the OC. So we tend to stop by here when we're in the area. Once you get in the back parking lot, the aroma of the cooking beef hits you, and that's when you know, it's the real deal. A slab of sauce, some onions, lettuce and tomato, a pair of buns, and you're good to go.
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