Abalone Cove

At my new job, a professor was telling me about his favorite place to get away from it all.  He said that there is a place where you would be lucky to come across another soul. After spending quite a while in Montana, both Owen and I were feeling overwhelmed by constantly being around people, so we decided to check out Abalone Cove.

Here are some pretty important details that are not in the pictures:

1) Imagine , if you can, the most AMAZING mansions you have ever seen in your entire life just out of sight to the left of  this very first picture.  I made Owen drive slow so I could take pictures of each of them....but deleted them as soon as we got home because I started to feel creepy about myself. So, long story short, you are going to have to use your imagination and trust me when I say they were awesome.

2) Just on the other side of the Cove, is the Trump Golf Course- interesting fact: the 18th hole fell into the ocean!

3) Just across the street is Wayfarer's Chapel.  The walls of the church are made with glass so you can see the ocean and all of the super amazing mansions while you are praying/getting married, etc.  Jane Mansfield, Brian Wilson, and Dennis Hopper have all been married there.  Like the mansions and the view- it was awesome.


As you can see below, this is not the type of beach that you take a nap on- its a huge conglomerate of tide pools.

4) The definition of "you wont come across another soul" now comes into question- if we were to take that literally, we ran in to about 100 people at Abalone Cove who did not have souls.  Needless to say, it was not the secluded beach we were envisioning, but it was absolutely beautiful!

We spent a good two hours poking around and decided to leave after I fell in not just once, but twice! To date, this is one of my absolute favorite CA beaches.