Just Me and the Boy

 Cass's preschool has not returned to class yet, but Camille's daycare was open for our normal Tuesday, so yesterday the Boy and I went on a tiny adventure.

We went on a drive two towns over to San Pedro, gabbed some donuts and coffee, and started to see some sights, like looking back at our own city, visible behind the port structures:

We made it over to some bluff point lookout that I hadn't been to before, andn Cass made a friend with whom he ran around with for nearly an hour.

Both surfers and the breaker were visible from the spot. The breaker was our next destination, as the anchor for the miles-long breaker that surrounds our own beach and eliminated our surf is down here in San Pedro.

Because it had just rained the previous day, the sky was clear enough that Catalina was very visible:

Not doing justice to how close it looked

Finally down at the breaker and the true dimensions become clear. Each one of the blocks that has waves crashing over it is the size of my car, and they are stacked up like Legos:

Mr. Cool needs his own sunglasses so he doesn't look slightly out of place:

Masks on, and we're walking...

One section of breaker that we can visit with our feet reminded me of the strand at Morro Rock, with waves crashing on one side:

And again, the entire recreational strand visible below, with hilly San Pedro in the background:

We drove around the peninsula to take the scenic route home, a half-hour jaunt of easy-going curves with the ocean on the left the entire time. Eventually you make it to Torrance, meet up with PCH again, and head back to Long Beach.

It was a great little after breakfast/before lunch adventure. We need to do this kind of thing more often, but...times are tough and the world outside in the air is...dangerous?

Just our new normal, that is now no longer new, just "normal."