Long Beach

Homes between Redondo Beach and LA

Arrived Long Beach at 1:00pm yesterday(9-20-2012). The Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor area is huge. Started seeing all the harbor cranes for container ships first an there must be 5 miles of them. Lots of ships anchored in the harbor but not much moving traffic as I arrived. Was buzzed by one those old Navy flying boats about 4 miles out. Was all painted like new, so don't know if theres an air show going or what.

Checked in to the Long Beach Shoreline Marina. Big marina right down town and across the water from the Queen Mary and in front of the aquarium. Very nice biking and walking path on the shore with lots of people taking advantage of the nice weather. Yesterday evening I walked up the path to the Shoreline village an bunch of shops set next to the water and looked around.

9-21-2012

Woke to a sunny morning, some broken clouds. Jogged down the beach, in the sand(marvelous) to the Long Beach pier and walked back, taking a swim off the beach to cool off. Yeah baby !! waters 70 degrees and feels darn good.

Long Beach right next to the marina

Walked up to do some laundry and found bunches of people gathering along the walking path. "what's up?" The space shuttle on its 747 carrier is scheduled to make a fly over Queen Mary as part of a US tour. I quess prior to going to the museum(forgot what city).

Shuttle Endeavour

45 minutes later there it was. Flying at about 1500 ft, so could get a pretty good look. Very cool. Got some video and couple of picts from the back. It was about a 30 second fly by.

Pretty warm this afternoon, but cooling down now. The evening here are awesome right now. Warm enough to continue to wear shorts and t-shirt but with nice breeze.

Tracey comes in tomorrow morning and sent me the bus plan, so hopefully I won't get lost and will meet up with her and the cat at the airport.

Ed