Sand and sun in Pacifica

Sunday was such a pleasant day, so that afternoon we agreed to get out of the house. I felt like a drive, and Thom suggested we go to Pacifica, just south of Daly City. I have relatives that live in the northern part of Pacifica, but I hadn’t ever really explored the more southern and coastal parts. We got onto Skyline (Route 35) and then Highway 1 and were greeted by dense fog. Doh! But by the time we made it to the Linda Mar area, where we had lunch at L&L Hawaiian Barbeque (good food and friendly service; mahalo!), the fog had disappeared.

Our next stop was Rockaway Beach (California Coastal Records Project photo). While looking for a place to park, we passed by a wedding taking place at the boardwalk in front of a beachfront hotel. What a great setting. We ended up parking in front of Rockaway Antiques and had a look around the store. They had so much neat stuff; I especially liked the vintage luggage and early 1900s San Francisco photographs for sale. After browsing for a while, we went back outside and walked along the hotel boardwalk, and Thom remarked that since we arrived in the Bay Area we hadn’t yet come to the very coast and touched the ocean! So we headed down to the beach, took off our flip-flops, and waded along the edge of the cool Pacific. It was great. If only the weather were like this all the time! (I’m calling the photo above “Rockaway Beach Thom”: convertible and other accessories sold separately.)

Finally we drove a bit north to the Sharp Park area, where there is another beach and a large pier (CCRP photo), where a lot of people were fishing. So yeah, a great afternoon, very Bay Area Backroads. For more photos, check out Thom’s and my Flickr archive from that day.