Traveling Circus: Dillon Beach

 
 This was the view from our beach house.  Dillon Beach is the only private beach in Northern California (or so we were told) and it was quiet and secluded.  In the mornings and evenings the fog would set in.  There were sheep, cows, horses, and deer grazing on the rolling green hills all around us.  We kept joking that we were in Ireland rather than California.  

 These two started the morning with some fierce games of tic tac toe. 

 And this guy started the morning out ready to head to the beach.

 The kids put on their suits and warmed up in the hot tub while we waited for the fog to clear and the temperature to rise.

 They choreographed a few water shows while they were at it.

 Dillon Beach

 Brian saved our lives and made our day by outfitting all of us in wet suits.  If we wouldn't have had the wet suits, our day at the beach would have lasted 15 minutes.  Levi and Davis were all about the water.

 This beach babe wanted to boogie.

 Reece sacrificed her wetsuit so Isaac could have one.  I kept thinking she was going to lapse into hypothermia.



 Good thing she wore her snow boots to the beach.

 Levi, Daisy, and Davis all took turns on the boogie board.

 Levi loved loved the ocean.  He has not stopped talking about living near the ocean.  He asked, "Mom, if we can't move to the ocean now, can we please move there when I'm a teenager?"

 Brian wasn't quite as brave as Reece was when it came to the northern Pacific.  He couldn't handle the cold.

 Titus ate the sand.  I mean, I know most toddlers taste the sand, but Titus ate the sand.  He liked it.  He was shoveling it in by the fistful at first and then he laid down on the sand and started lapping it up.  It was coming out the other end for days.

 These two figured out it was much warmer in the sand than in the water.

 My time at the beach was mostly spent in the water with my kids.  I was loving the ocean.

 As the day wore on the fog started to set in, but the  kids were not deterred.  We even spotted a large seal (maybe even sea lion?) swimming about 10 yards from them.

 The beach was very quiet, but there were a few other beach goers than came and went throughout the day.

 By the time we got back to the beach house everyone was sunburned (through the clouds and fog) and exhausted.

The day at the beach was an overall success.  We anxiously looked forward to exploring more of this quiet, almost magical coast.