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Top of the World Bench, Laguna Beach
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Notes: Out and back to Top of the World, Laguna Beach...rolled out just before sunrise, and reached Shake Shack just before 7am for Calli breakfast, eggs and fruit and avocado...took the coffee with up Park Road to Top of the World Park...thought, all along the way, was to get a view of one of those side streets off Hwy One that end with a bench looking out over the bluffs to the Ocean...hmmph...so, soh, I find such a bench at Top of the World...go figure!...no where do the upper hillside roads seem to give a view down one of the side streets from the northeast side of Hwy One...and all the views from top angled wrong...took binocs with and checked!...nothing for it but to set up on the sidewalk looking down one of the side streets...for tomorrowmorrow!...took mental notes of some other views...descending towards Crystal Cove going northwest, a view opens up of the long crescent beach and bluffs, in the foreground Hwy One, and the cement medium, and peeking over the medium, bicyclers in a row coming up the hill...another: on the mediums in Corona Del Mar going north, are these popcicle trees in bloom, thorn trees?, with distinctive reddish orange flowers, one group with a palm in front...oh, back home, and coming to the entry of my track, the Orange Cat stretched out napping on the cement...Cat friended with the homeless fellow who is often stretched out on the cement napping too...this for years...I have old pic of Cat sheltering in the rain on the lower rack of the homeless fellow's shopping cart...Top Bench has a memorial plaque...it was a memorial donation...not to be New Ageish, but thought came it drew me up there!...view northeast is Sadddleback and south Orange County and foothills...around the Park is hillsides still undeveloped, Crystal Cove State Park reaches way back into the hills and meets up with Laguna's set aside wilderness...mountain bikers were slowly coming up the hill, geared with protection for what must be a will ride back down the trails to Laguna Canyon...when I first arrived at Top, the ocean was overcast with a fog, and I thought smog, bank all the way to Catalina Island, which I could see over it...in the short time I was there, it burned off, and, and no smog!...I could see the light tan on the bluffs at Catalina's south end...this after days of sweltering heat, and fire smoke...a clear sky looking west anyway...people in New England, and far away as Old England, with the orange red Sun from West Coast smoke!
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DavidDavid
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