Our first stop, meet me at 9:45AM just outside the Santa Barbara Museum Sea Center
211 Stearn’s Wharf, Santa Barbara
Drive onto Stearn’s Wharf, and the Sea Center is to your left. Public parking on Stearns Wharf is free for the first 90 minutes with ticket validation. Admission is $13/adult. ($11/senior)
Our second stop,meet me at NOON at the park benches by the stream at Arroyo Burro Beach next to the Boathouse 2981 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara For a pretty drive without freeway, you may follow me 4.3 miles from Stearns Wharf, left along Shoreline Drive to Cliff Drive, to the beach.
After a briefing about the geology and geography of what you’ll see, (and a bathroom stop), we will walk uphill on a well-worn trail up onto the mesa, along a cliff, (awesome views) and down 241 steps onto the beach – a total of about 2.5 miles RT.
Exertion level is mild to moderate and not wheelchair accessible.
ENJOY THE TIDEPOOLS!
Enjoying the beach may best be done with a willingness to walk barefoot into the water, looking at tide pools, picking up rocks, and not freaking out about natural oil spots on the bottoms of your feet or shoes. This is a natural phenomenon in this part of our California coast. Vaseline helps remove oil from skin. Bring any trash out with you. Bring a bag to carry shoes back, in case you wish to go barefoot on the beach. You will be finished by 2 or 3pm.
THEN you can go out to lunch and enjoy Santa Barbara at a leisurely pace. Sunset will be 5:26pm.
