We saw a whale. He/she was just having a great time jumping clear out of the water not far off shore a little north of Malibu. We had actually stopped to watch surfers but this was even better. Such fun to watch. I was afraid that they had all already moved on.

We spent the day driving Route 1 along the shore. They were filming something on Santa Monica beach. Watch for a beach scene with blue and white stripped umbrellas….yeah, right. Probably a 100 of them in upcoming movies or move ads. We watched a while and we walked the boardwalk and pier. They have street venders who don’t just make caricature sketches; they make 3D sculptures of people on the spot. The quick dry sculpty stuff must make that possible. Pretty cool. The clown balloon tying guy was really talented too. I watched for two or three creations.

We walked the 3rd Street promenade in Santa Monica and had dinner there. It was a nice evening. They have topiary, water spewing dinosaurs for street lawn ornaments along the promenade and we enjoyed the street entertainers everywhere we went.