California Beaches Blog

With all the hoopla over surfing in California, you’d think that there would be more than a mere three or four museums dedicated to the sport.  Look at how many art museums California has, for instance (too many to tell you about in one paragraph!)
When we surveyed surfing in the Golden State, we knew for [...]

Somebody asked us what the top beaches with hotels are in California. We had some instinctive, gut level opinions but had to do the research to confirm them.
California Beaches staff criteria was that a beach with a hotel had to have the hotel on the same side of the street as the beach and if [...]

How hot is it today on the California Coast in Southern and Central California?
It’s so hot, Starbucks ran out of their venti-size cold drink cups!
It was so hot last night that my parents rolled their portable air-conditioner into their bedroom and slept an extra 3 hours this morning! They’d been getting less than five hours [...]