We Made It!

...All the way to the end of the Long Beach Jetty!
We being myself and my witness: Little Alice.

The shore line can be seen beyond Little Alice, who sits atop a Peets coffee cup situated on a jutting rock. The Long Beach jetty is the southern "land" border of Los Angeles County. Its' mirror image, the unseen Seal Beach jetty, is the northern "land" border of Orange County.

The lightpost–as opposed to lighthouse–marks the end of the jetty, which Little Alice is facing. She is situated on the same jutting rock. I had walked out to the lightpost but did not take any photographs there.
Why?
Five fisherman were there and anyone with a camera would have sparked their paranoia.
Four of these fishermen were casting their lines from the drop-off at the absolute end of the Long Beach jetty.
This photographer did blot out the considerable graffiti on the lightpost.
The black thing diagonally in front of Alice is my drawstring nylon backpack.

Adios, mi amigo!








And it was adios for Little Alice and the camera, string-locked in the backpack. Then it was one foot cautiously in front of the other foot en route to my gate-locked bicycle, waiting at the comfort station on the beach end of the jetty. Somewhere along the way, three young men had caught what I much later determined to be a sting ray. Google has more than a half-million recipe links for the flat, rounded & tailed fish.

The three young gentlemen spoke heavily-accented English, except when naming their catch.


They called it a "tortilla fish."





Adios, mi blogga-reados!



If you are interested in reading more about Little Alice's Adventures in Long Beach, please click here (unless you have already been there).