Sad Beach Day

So... Rainbow Haven was a bit of a bust for us. We were hoping because it's midweek and looked like a large beach that we could find an area with the dogs where we wouldn't bother anyone. Noooope. We were lucky to even find a parking spot, it was so busy! Actually when we were leaving the gates were closed and traffic backed up because there were no spots left.

This is what we were hoping for at Rainbow Haven Beach... (not our photo)

And this is what we got. :(

There were areas further down the beach with fewer people... then we noticed the scary signs saying "DO NOT SWIM HERE - DEADLY CURRENTS." Ah. Well that explains why there were no people over there. It was even pretty surf-y at the main sections. So we headed back to the vehicle, and stopped at a little lagoon on the way for the dogs to play in.

I'm pretty bummed. I was really looking forward to having a nice beach day. I guess that's part of exploring new places though, they're not all going to be fantastic. And part of living in a city is having to share these places with, oh, about 375,000 other people. We could always go without the dogs, but I feel badly doing that... they want to have fun too!

So in conclusion, I'm forcing more sunset photos on you because they cheer me up. :)

These were both from last night.