getting into the beach areas and parking on the weekends isn’t too bad BEFORE 10 AM – after 10 you have to really want to go to the beach to put up with the traffic and parking issues
what do you mean, “what’s the point?” – watching the dogs at Dog Beach, walking the OB Pier and Newport Ave, walking/skating the boardwalk along Mission Beach – I saw dolphins surfing the waves in MB last year – quite a sight – no question but what they were just doing it for fun – they’d ride a wave in and then swim back out to the line up – I watched them surf for 15 minutes before continuing my walk