I could sit and look at this webcam all day long.
When I lived in San Diego (19 of the first 20 years of my life), this is the beach we went to. Del Mar was probably about fifteen miles away from our house as the crow flies, but it took a half hour to get there because we had to drive around lakes and wilderness preserves. My high school was about ten miles away from Del Mar, but if you knew where to look, you could find an unmaintained dirt road that would take you directly to the beach in 15 minutes. I knew people who would get up before dawn every day to get in some surfing before classes started.
I'm glad I grew up on the Pacific Ocean instead of the Atlantic Ocean. Most of all, I'm glad I didn't grow up on a river 1000 miles from the ocean.
