I took my family out to the west coast. the first night, we stayed at the same little spot that me and Trina stayed at on my b-day last year on the Kennedy River. It's a realyl nice little spot. Pleasant. And I swear, the view gets nicer every time I drive out that way. The mountains are pretty impressive. It's taken a while for me to figure out, but the island defintiely has its share of alpine wonders. The next day, we stopped at a spot on the river for me to jump in where the river is still and like 20 feet deep, i swear. When we got to the Pacific Rim area, I took them down to that same beach that me and Drew had gone to. Long Beach was packed of course, but where we were, which was like 3 separate secluded beaches, there was one guy that walked through, and one guy on a jet-ski that left right away and that was it, we were alone all day. And the sun came out, and there was these 3 seals who stared at me for a while then followed me along the shore (they were in the water). starfish, anemones, jellyfish. and my relatives are from Utah, so it was all brand new to them. We played in the waves, it was awesome, i felt like I was 10 again. I even gotr a sunburn. what a wicked spot. pics to follow. tomorrow, if the weatehr is nice, I wanna hike to the top of Mount Cokely alone. It'd be a long day though, so unless things line up right, I might bail.